1890 in literature

The year 1890 in literature involved some significant new books.

[edit] Events

• Bram Stoker begins work on Dracula.
• Arthur Morrison joins the staff of the Evening Globe newspaper.

[edit] New books

• Rolf Boldrewood - The Squatter's Dream
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - One Life, One Love
• Rhoda Broughton - Alas!
• Hall Caine
  • The Bondman
  • The Scapegoat
• Kate Chopin - At Fault
• Marie Corelli - Wormwood
• Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Firm of Girdlestone
  • The Sign of Four
• Knut Hamsun - Hunger
• William Dean Howells - A Hazard of New Fortunes
• Rudyard Kipling - The Light That Failed
• William Morris - News from Nowhere
• Octave Mirbeau - Sébastien Roch
• Molly Elliot Seawell - Little Jarvis
• Jules Verne - César Cascabel
• Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

[edit] New drama

• James Herne - Margaret Fleming
• Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler

[edit] Poetry

• Edwin James Brady - The Way of Many Rivers

[edit] Non-fiction

• Sir James George Frazer - The Golden Bough
• Alfred Thayer Mahan - The Influence of Sea Power upon History
• James McNeill Whistler - The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

[edit] Births

• January 9 - Karel Čapek author (+ 1938)
• February 10 - Boris Pasternak author (+ 1960)
• February 11 - John de Vries, writer
• March 11 - Vannevar Bush, author (+ 1974)
• May 15 - Katherine Anne Porter, journalist and novelist
• May 20 - Allan Nevins, historian and journalist
• August 20 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer (+ 1937)
• August 28 - Ivor Gurney, war poet and composer
• September 10 - Franz Werfel, author (+ 1945)
• September 15 - Agatha Christie, mystery writer (+ 1976)
• September 24 - A. P. Herbert, humorist and novelist
• November 25 - Isaac Rosenberg, war poet

[edit] Deaths

• September 18 - Dion Boucicault, dramatist
• October 19 - Sir Richard Burton, author
• October 26 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio
• December 29 - Octave Feuillet, novelist and dramatist

[edit] Awards

• Newdigate prize - Laurence Binyon