1884 in literature
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The year 1884 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[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
- Helen Hunt Jackson - Ramona
- George A. Moore - A Mummer's Wife
- Margaret Oliphant
- Rachilde - Monsieur Vénus
- Leo Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Jules Verne
- Mary Augusta Ward - Miss Bretherton
[edit] New drama
[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 (d. 1951)
- March 13 - Sir Hugh Walpole, novelist (d. 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 (d. 1933)
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Hermann Ulrici, philosopher (b. 1806)
- March 10 - William Blanchard Jerrold, journalist (b. 1826)
- March 24 - François Mignet, historian (b. 1796)
- April 5 - John Wisden, originator of the Cricketers' Almanack (b. 1826)
- April 6 - Emanuel Geibel, poet (b. 1815)
- April 11 - Charles Reade, English writer (b. 1814)
- May 27 - Caroline Dexter, feminist writer (b. 1819)
- May 28 - Joseph d'Haussonville, historian (b. 1809)
- June 10 - Johann Gustav Droysen, historian (b. 1808)
- September 18 - Boleslav Markevich, novelist, critic (b. 1922)
- October 16 - Paul Lacroix, novelist and journalist (b. 1806)
- October 19 - Karl Hillebrand, literary historian and philosopher (b. 1829)
- November 6 - William Wells Brown, African-American writer (b. 1814)
- date unknown
- František Doucha, translator (b. 1810)
- John Harris, poet (b. 1820)
