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1887 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1887.

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Events

  • February – Oscar Wilde publishes "The Canterville Ghost", his first short story, in The Court and Society Review.
  • March 30 – Théâtre Libre, established to promote naturalism in theatre by André Antoine, gives its first performances in Paris, originally as an amateur ensemble.
  • November – Arthur Conan Doyle's first detective novel, A Study in Scarlet, is published in Beeton's Christmas Annual by Ward Lock & Co. in London, introducing the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler Dr. Watson (illustrated by D. H. Friston).
  • December 5 – Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886) comes into effect.
  • Futabatei Shimei writes and begins to publish The Drifting Cloud (浮雲, Ukigumo), the first modern novel in Japan.
  • George Hutchinson establishes Hutchinson & Co. as a publisher in London.
  • John Lane and Elkin Mathews set up in partnership under the name The Bodley Head in London, originally as antiquarian booksellers.

    • Fiction

  • Herman Bang – Stucco (Stuk)
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Cut by the County
  • Hall Caine – The Deemster
  • Marie Corelli – Thelma
  • F. Marion Crawford – Saracinesca
  • José Maria de Eça de Queiroz – A Relíquia ("The Relic")
  • Anna Bowman Dodd – The Republic of the Future
  • Arthur Conan Doyle – A Study in Scarlet
  • Édouard Dujardin – Les Lauriers sont coupés, an early example of the Stream of consciousness (narrative mode)
  • Benito Pérez Galdós – Fortunata y Jacinta (publication completed)
  • Enrique Gaspar – El anacronópete, the first fiction to feature a time machine
  • H. Rider Haggard – Allan Quatermain
  • Jess
  • She
  • Thomas Hardy – The Woodlanders
  • W. H. Hudson – A Crystal Age
  • Joris-Karl Huysmans – En rade ("Becalmed"; serialization concludes & book publication)
  • Pierre Loti – Madame Chrysanthème
  • Paolo Mantegazza – Testa
  • Appu Nedungadi – Kundalatha (കുന്ദലത)
  • Bolesław Prus – The Doll (Lalka; serialization begins)
  • José Rizal – Noli Me Tangere
  • Futabatei Shimei – The Drifting Cloud
  • August Strindberg – The People of Hemsö (Hemsöborna)
  • Jules Verne
  • The Flight to France (Le Chemin de France)
  • Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South (Nord contre Sud)
  • O. F. Walton – A Peep Behind the Scenes
  • Émile Zola – La Terre ("The Earth")

    • Children and young adults

  • Palmer Cox – The Brownies, Their Book
  • Robert Louis Stevenson – The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables

    • Drama

  • Anton Chekhov – Ivanov
  • Arthur Wing Pinero – Dandy Dick
  • Victorien Sardou – La Tosca
  • August Strindberg – The Father
  • Thomas Russell Sullivan – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, adapted from the 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson novella, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    • Non-fiction

  • Mikhail Bakunin – God and the State
  • Hall Caine – Life of Samuel Coleridge Taylor
  • Charles Darwin – The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (posthumously published)
  • Julius Dresser – The True History of Mental Science
  • Friedrich Engels (translated by Florence Kelley) – The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (first English language edition, published in the United States)
  • Franz Hartmann – The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, better known by the name of Paracelsus, and the substance of his teachings
  • Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers – The Kabbalah Unveiled
  • Friedrich Nietzsche – On the Genealogy of Morality
  • A. E. Waite – The Real History of the Rosicrucians
  • L. L. Zamenhof – Unua Libro

    • Births

  • February 1 – Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (died 1947)
  • February 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (died of overdose 1914)
  • February 11 – John van Melle, South African writer (died 1953)
  • February 18 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek poet (died 1957)
  • March 3 – Rupert Brooke, English poet (died on active service 1915)
  • March 9 – Ion Buzdugan, Romanian poet and political figure (died 1967)
  • March 14 – Sylvia Beach (Nancy Woodbridge Beach), American publisher and memoirist (died 1962)
  • May 15 – Edwin Muir, Scottish poet and translator (died 1959)
  • June 2 – Orrick Glenday Johns, American poet and playwright (died 1946)
  • July 1 – Amber Reeves, New Zealand-born English scholar, feminist and novelist (died 1981)
  • September 1 – Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric-Louis Sauser), Swiss-born French writer (died 1961)
  • September 8 – Constantin Beldie, Romanian literary promoter and memoirist (died 1954)
  • October 1 – Barbu Nemțeanu, Romanian poet and translator (died 1919)

    • Deaths

  • February 10 – Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood), English novelist (born 1814)
  • February 19 – Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Dutch-born writer (born 1820)
  • April 23 – John Ceiriog Hughes, Welsh poet and folk song collector (born 1832)
  • May 4 – William Murdoch, Scottish-born Canadian poet (born 1823)
  • August 20 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (born 1860)
  • August 25 – Emma Jane Guyton (Worboise), English novelist and magazine editor (born 1825)
  • October 12 – Dinah Craik, English novelist and poet (born 1826)
  • November 2 – Alfred Domett, English-born New Zealand poet and politician (born 1811)
  • November 19 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (born 1849)
  • December 5 – Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (born 1804)
  • Unknown date – Frances Browne, Irish poet and novelist (born 1816)

    • References

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