1892 In Literature

Events

• Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper becomes the second novel by an African-American woman published in the United States

New books

• The American Claimant - Mark Twain
• Barrack-Room Ballads poetry including Gunga Din - Rudyard Kipling
• Born in Exile - George Gissing
• Children of the Ghetto - Israel Zangwill
• The Downfall - Emile Zola
• The Fate of Fenella - Hall Caine
• - Emily Lawless
• The History of David Grieve - Mary Ward
• Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde (play)
• Mistress Branican - Jules Verne
• Mrs. Bligh - Rhoda Broughton
• Shadows Uplifted - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
• The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin
• The Venetians - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Wrecker - Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Births

• January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, author
• February 8 - Ralph Chubb, gay poet and printer
• February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer
• February 23 - Agnes Smedley, journalist and writer (d. 1950)
• March 18 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, essayist, novelist
• July 1 - James M. Cain, author, newspaperman
• October 9 - Ivo Andrić (d.1975), Serbo-Croatian novelist - winner, 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature

Deaths

• March 26 - Walt Whitman, American poet

Awards

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