1884 in literature

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The year 1884 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

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

[edit] 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

[edit] New drama

• Henrik Ibsen - The Wild Duck

[edit] Poetry

• William Watson -Epigrams of Art, Life and Nature

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Awards