1887 in literature
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| List of years in literature (table) |
|---|
| … 1877 . 1878 . 1879 . 1880 . 1881 . 1882 . 1883 … 1884 1885 1886 -1887- 1888 1889 1890 … 1891 . 1892 . 1893 . 1894 . 1895 . 1896 . 1897 … In poetry: 1884 1885 1886 -1887- 1888 1889 1890 |
| Related time period or subjects |
| … 1884 . 1885 . 1886 - 1887 - 1888 . 1889 . 1890 … … 1850s . 1860s . 1870s -1880s- 1890s . 1900s . 1910s |
| Art . Archaeology . Architecture . Literature . Music . Science +... |
The year 1887 in literature involved some significant new books.
Contents |
[edit] Events
- Futabatei Shimei writes The Drifting Cloud, the first modern novel in Japan.
[edit] New books
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Cut by the County
- Hall Caine - The Deemster
- Marie Corelli - Thelma
- F. Marion Crawford - Saracinesca
- Anna Bowman Dodd - The Republic of the Future
- Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
- Benito Pérez Galdós - Fortunata y Jacinta
- Enrique Gaspar - El anacronópete, the first work of fiction to feature a time machine[1]
- H. Rider Haggard - Allan Quatermain
- Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders
- W. H. Hudson - A Crystal Age
- Joris-Karl Huysmans - En rade
- Paolo Mantegazza - Testa
- Appu Nedungadi - Kundalatha
- José Rizal - Noli Me Tangere
- Futabatei Shimei - The Drifting Cloud
- August Strindberg - Hemsöborna
- Jules Verne
- Emile Zola - La Terre
[edit] New drama
[edit] Non-fiction
- Mikhail Bakunin - God and the State
- Hall Caine - Life of Samuel Coleridge Taylor
- Charles Darwin - The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (posthumously published)
- Franz Hartmann - The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, better known by the name of Paracelsus, and the substance of his teachings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morality
- L. L. Zamenhof - Unua Libro
[edit] Births
- February 1 - Charles Nordhoff, author (died 1947)
- February 3 - Georg Trakl, poet (d. 1914)
- February 11 - John van Melle, South African writer (d. 1953)
- February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis, poet (d. 1957)
- March 3 - Rupert Brooke, poet (d. 1915)
- March 14 - Sylvia Beach, publisher (d. 1962)
- June 2 - Orrick Johns, poet & playwright (d. 1946)
- September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, writer (d. 1961)
[edit] Deaths
- February 10 - Mrs Henry Wood, novelist (born 1814)
- April 23 - John Ceiriog Hughes, poet (b. 1832)
- May 4 - William Murdoch, poet (b. 1823)
- August 20 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
- October 12 - Dinah Craik, novelist and poet (b. 1826)
- November 2 - Alfred Domett, poet (b. 1811)
- November 19 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
- December 5 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)
- date unknown
- Frances Browne, poet and novelist (b. 1816)
- Emilia Tennyson, sister of Alfred Tennyson and fiancée of Arthur Hallam (b. 1811)
[edit] Awards
[edit] References
- ^ Westcott, Kathryn (2011-04-09). "HG Wells or Enrique Gaspar: Whose time machine was first?". BBC News. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-europe-12900390. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
