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1882 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1882.

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Events

  • January 2 – Oscar Wilde arrives in the United States for an extended lecture tour sponsored by Richard D'Oyly Carte. He poses for iconic photographs in Napoleon Sarony's New York City studio.
  • April 9 – English poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti dies aged 53 of Bright's disease at Birchington-on-Sea in the care of his brother, the critic William Michael Rossetti.
  • May 20 – World première of Henrik Ibsen's controversial play Ghosts (Gengangere; 1881) in Norwegian in Chicago.
  • June 2 – English language première of Ibsen's play A Doll's House (1879) as The Child Wife in Milwaukee.
  • October
  • Almqvist & Wiksell are established in Uppsala (Sweden) by purchase of an earlier printing company.
  • Rudyard Kipling returns to the British Raj and joins the staff of the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore.
  • December – Karl May (as Captain Ramon Diaz de la Escosura) begins publication of Das Waldröschen in instalments.
  • Publication in Delhi of the first original novel in Hindi, Pariksha guru (Parīkṣāguru, "Experience is the Only Teacher") by Srinivas Das (Śrīnivāsdās).

    • Fiction

  • F. Anstey – Vice Versa
  • Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly – The Story Without a Name
  • Walter Besant – The Revolt of Man
  • Félicien Champsaur – Dinah Samuel
  • Bankim Chatterjee – Anandmath
  • Wilkie Collins – After Dark (short stories)
  • Gabriele D'Annunzio – Terra vergine (short stories)
  • Etonensis (George Augustus Sala and James Campbell Reddie) – The Mysteries of Verbena House, or, Miss Bellasis Birched for Thieving
  • Theodor Fontane – L'Adultera (The Adulteress)
  • Ludovic Halevy – The Abbot Constantine
  • Richard Jefferies – Bevis
  • Alexander Kielland – Skipper Worse
  • George Bernard Shaw – Cashel Byron's Profession
  • Robert Louis Stevenson – The New Arabian Nights
  • Frank R. Stockton – "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (short story in The Century Magazine)
  • Torfhildur Þorsteinsdóttir (Hólm) – Brynjólfur Sveinsson biskup
  • Anthony Trollope – The Fixed Period
  • Gleb Uspensky – The Power of the Land (Власть земли, in Otechestvennye Zapiski)
  • Jules Verne
  • Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery (L'École des Robinsons)
  • The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert)

    • Children and young people

  • R. D. Blackmore – Christowell
  • Mrs. W. K. Clifford – Anyhow Stories, Moral and Otherwise
  • Ouida – Bimbi: Stories for Children
  • Mark Twain – The Prince and the Pauper

    • Drama

  • José Echegaray – Conflicto entre dos deberes ("Conflict of Duties")
  • Victor Hugo – Torquemada
  • Henrik Ibsen – An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende)
  • Victorien Sardou – Fédora
  • Jules Verne – Journey Through the Impossible (Voyage à travers l'impossible)

    • Poetry

  • Gabriele D'Annunzio – Canto novo
  • George Robert Sims – The Dagonet Ballads

    • Non-fiction

  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel (died 1881) – Journal intime
  • Hall Caine – Recollections of Rossetti
  • Ignatius L. Donnelly – Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
  • William Morris – Hopes and Fears for Art
  • Friedrich Nietzsche – The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft)
  • Theodore Roosevelt – The Naval War of 1812

    • Births

  • January 10 – Olive Higgins Prouty, American novelist (died 1974)
  • January 18 – A. A. Milne, English children's writer and novelist (died 1956)
  • January 25 – Virginia Woolf, English novelist (died 1941)
  • February 1 – Cicely Fox Smith, English poet and nautical writer (died 1954)
  • February 2 – James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet (died 1941)
  • March 5 – Henry S. Whitehead, American author (died 1932)
  • May 20 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (died 1949)
  • May 30 – Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, Russian novelist (died 1975)
  • September 12 – Ion Agârbiceanu, Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer (died 1963)
  • October 28 – Richard Barham Middleton, English poet and editor (died 1911)
  • November 24 – E. R. Eddison, English fantasy author (died 1945)
  • December 13 – André Billy, French author (died 1971)

    • Deaths

  • January 3 – William Harrison Ainsworth, English historical novelist (born 1805)
  • January 6 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American novelist and politician (born 1815)
  • March 24 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (born 1807)
  • April 10 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (Bright's disease, born 1828)
  • August 1 – Henry Kendall, Australian poet (born 1839)
  • October 13 – Arthur de Gobineau, French novelist (born 1816)
  • December 6 – Anthony Trollope, English novelist (born 1815)

    • References

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