1886 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

New Books

• The Bostonians - Henry James
• Clipper Of The Clouds - Jules Verne
• The Danvers Jewels - Mary Cholmondeley
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
• The Death of the Body - C.K. Stead
• Disperato - Leon Bloy
• Doctor Cupid - Rhoda Broughton
• A Drama in Muslin - George A. Moore
• Eva Futura - Philippe Villiers
• The Evil Genius - Wilkie Collins
• Felix Holt, the Radical - George Eliot
• The Guilty River - Wilkie Collins
• Indian Summer - William Dean Howells
• Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott
• Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
• Robur The Conqueror - Jules Verne
• A Romance of Two Worlds - Marie Corelli
• A Son of Hagar - Hall Caine
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Births

• January 14 - Hugh Lofting, author (+ 1947)
• Charles Williams, British author
• September 8 - Siegfried Sassoon

Deaths

Awards