1892 in literature

The year 1892 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• February 22 - Oscar Wilde's comedy Lady Windermere's Fan premières at St James's Theatre in London starring Winifred Emery and Marion Terry.
• December 21 - Brandon Thomas' farce Charley's Aunt begins a record-breaking London run at the Royalty Theatre (following a pre-London opening at Bury St Edmunds on February 29).
• Rehearsals for the première of Oscar Wilde's play Salome for inclusion in Sarah Bernhardt's London season are halted when the British Lord Chamberlain's licensor of plays prohibits it for inclusion of Biblical characters.
• The Irish Literary Society is founded by W. B. Yeats, T. W. Rolleston and Charles Gavan Duffy in London, and the National Literary Society by Yeats in Dublin with scholar Douglas Hyde as its first president.^[1]
• Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper becomes the second novel by an African-American woman published in the United States.
• The Schauspielhaus Zürich opens as the Volkstheater am Pfauen, a music hall.

New books

• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Venetians
• Rhoda Broughton - Mrs. Bligh
• Gabriele D'Annunzio - L'innocente
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, including "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"
• Theodor Fontane - Frau Jenny Treibel
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
• George Gissing - Born in Exile
• George and Weedon Grossmith - The Diary of a Nobody (book publication)
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper - Shadows Uplifted
• Herman Heijermans - Trinette
• Emily Lawless - Grania: The Story of an Island
• J. McCullough - Golf in the Year 2000
• Helen Mathers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and 21 others - The Fate of Fenella
• Karl May - Durch Wüste und Harem
• Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne - The Wrecker
• Mark Twain - The American Claimant
• Jules Verne - Mistress Branican
• Mary Augusta Ward - The History of David Grieve
• Israel Zangwill
  • The Big Bow Mystery
  • Children of the Ghetto
• Émile Zola - La Débâcle

New drama

• Georges Feydeau - Champignol malgré lui
• Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin
  • Der pogrom in rusland ("The Pogrom in Russia")
  • Tsvey veltn, oder Der groyser sotsialist ("Two Worlds, or The Great Socialist")^[2]
  • Der yidisher kenig lir ("The Yiddish King Lear")
• Gerhart Hauptmann - The Weavers
• Brandon Thomas - Charley's Aunt
• Oscar Wilde - Lady Windermere's Fan

Poetry

• Rudyard Kipling - Barrack-Room Ballads (including Gunga Din)

Non-fiction

• Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread

Births

• January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, English author (died 1973)
• February 8 - Ralph Chubb, poet and printer (died 1960)
• February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer (died 1950)
• February 23 - Agnes Smedley, journalist and writer (died 1950)
• March 18 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, essayist, novelist (died 1955)
• March 22 - Karel Poláček, writer, humorist, journalist (died 1944)
• June 12 - Djuna Barnes, American writer (died 1982)
• June 26 - Pearl Buck, American writer (died 1973)
• July 1 - James M. Cain, author, newspaperman (died 1977)
• July 12 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and artist (killed 1942)
• October 9 - Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian novelist, winner, 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1975)

Deaths

• January 20 - Christopher Pearse Cranch, poet and magazine editor (born 1813)
• January 28 - Gustav Zerffi, journalist (born 1820)
• March 26 - Walt Whitman, American poet (born 1819)
• July 10 - Rudolf Westphal, classical scholar (born 1826)
• July 15 - Thomas Cooper, Chartist poet (born 1805)
• July 18 - Rose Terry Cooke, poet and novelist (born 1827)
• August 25 - Richard Lewis Nettleship, philosopher (born 1846)
• September 7 - John Greenleaf Whittier, Quaker poet (born 1807)
• September 17 - Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle, poet (born 1825)
• October 17 - David Edelstadt, anarchist poet (born 1866)
• October 21 - Anne Charlotte Leffler, novelist and dramatist (born 1849)
• October 24 - Anton Gindely, historian (born 1829)
• December 27 - Orange Judd, editor and publisher (born 1822)
• date unknown - George Grub, historian (born 1812)

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