1882 in literature

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The year 1882 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.

Events

January 2 - Oscar Wilde arrives in the United States for an extended lecture tour sponsored by Richard D'Oyly Carte.^[1] He poses for iconic photographs in Napoleon Sarony's New York City studio. ^[2]
April 9 - William Michael Rossetti writes to his wife Lucy to report on the health of his brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Gabriel dies the following day.^[3]
May 20 - World première of Henrik Ibsen's controversial play Ghosts (Gengangere; 1881) in Norwegian in Chicago.^[4]
June 2 - English language première of Ibsen's play A Doll's House (1879) as The Child Wife in Milwaukee.^[4]
October - Almqvist & Wiksell are established in Uppsala (Sweden) by purchase of an earlier printing company.
December - Karl May (as Captain Ramon Diaz de la Escosura) begins publication of Das Waldröschen in instalments.^[5]
Publication in Delhi of the first original novel in Hindi, Pariksha guru (Parīkṣāguru, "Experience is the Only Teacher") by Srinivas Das (Śrīnivāsdās).^[6]

January 10 – Olive Higgins Prouty, American novelist (died 1974)
January 18 – A. A. Milne, English children's writer and novelist (died 1956)
January 25 – Virginia Woolf, English novelist (died 1941)
February 2 – James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet (died 1941)
March 5 – Henry S. Whitehead, American author (died 1932)
May 20 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (died 1949)
May 30 – Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, Russian novelist (died 1975)
September 12 – Ion Agârbiceanu, Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer (died 1963)
October 28 – Richard Barham Middleton, English poet and editor (died 1911)
November 24 – E. R. Eddison, English fantasy author (died 1945)
December 13 – André Billy, French author (died 1971)

January 3 – William Harrison Ainsworth, English historical novelist (born 1805)
January 6 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American novelist and politician (born 1815)
March 24 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (born 1807)
April 10 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (Bright's disease, born 1828)^[7]
August 1 – Henry Kendall, Australian poet (born 1839)
December 6 – Anthony Trollope, English novelist (born 1815)

↑ Cooper, John. "Oscar Wilde's 1882 American Lecture Tour". Oscar Wilde in America. Retrieved 2013-09-22.
↑ Cooper, John. "Sarony Photographs of Oscar Wilde". Oscar Wilde in America. Retrieved 2014-11-15.
↑ Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti, ed. Roger W. Peattie. Pennsylvania State University, 1990, p413.
↑ 4.0 4.1 "English first performances". Ibsen.net. 2004-05-12. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
↑ Karl-May-Gesellschaft. Accessed 1 January 2013
↑ Kalsi, A. S. (1992). "Parīkṣāguru (1882): The First Hindi Novel and the Hindu Elite". Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press) 26: 763–790. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00010064. Retrieved 2013-07-20.
↑ Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti, ed. Roger W. Peattie. Pennsylvania State University, 1990.