1884 in literature

1884 in literature

The year 1884 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*February 1 - Edition one of the "Oxford English Dictionary" is published.

New books

*Edwin Abbott Abbott - "Flatland"
*Henry Brooks Adams - "Esther"
*Aluísio de Azevedo - "Casa de Pensão"
*Richard Doddridge Blackmore - "Tommy Upmore"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "Ishmael. A Novel"
*Wilkie Collins - "'I Say No'"
*Joris-Karl Huysmans
**"Controcorrente"
**"À rebours"
*Helen Hunt Jackson - "Ramona"
*George A. Moore - "A Mummer's Wife"
*Margaret Oliphant
**"The Ladies Lindores"
**"The Wizard's Son"
*Rachilde - "Monsieur Vénus"
*Leo Tolstoy - "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"
*Jules Verne
**"The Vanished Diamond"
**"The Archipelago on Fire"
*Mary Augusta Ward - "Miss Bretherton"

New drama

*Henrik Ibsen - "The Wild Duck"

Poetry

*William Watson -"Epigrams of Art, Life and Nature"

Non-fiction

*Friedrich Engels - "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State"
*"Herefordshire Pomona"
*Henry James - "A Little Tour in France"
*George Fletcher Moore - "Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia"

Births

* January 2 - Oscar Micheaux, African-American author & filmmaker (+ 1951)
* March 13 - Sir Hugh Walpole, novelist (+ 1941)
* August 8 – Sara Teasdale, poet (d. 1933)
* August 10 - Panait Istrati, Romanian novelist and short story writer (d. 1935)
* August 24 - Earl Derr Biggers, writer

Deaths

*January 11 - Hermann Ulrici, philosopher
*March 10 - William Blanchard Jerrold, journalist
*March 24 - François Mignet, historian
*April 5 - John Wisden, originator of the "Cricketers' Almanack"
*April 6 - Emanuel Geibel, poet
*April 11 - Charles Reade, English writer
*May 27 - Caroline Dexter, feminist writer
*May 28 - Joseph d'Haussonville, historian
*June 10 - Johann Gustav Droysen, historian
*October 16 - Paul Lacroix, novelist and journalist
*October 19 - Karl Hillebrand, literary historian and philosopher
*November 6 - William Wells Brown, African-American writer
*"date unknown"
**František Doucha, translator
**John Harris, poet

Awards

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