1888 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

New Books

• Adrift In The Pacific - Jules Verne
• Aspern papers - Henry James
• L'Aveu, drame en un acte en prose - Sarah Bernhardt
• The Boyhood of Christ - Lew Wallace
• Confessions of a Young Man - George A. Moore
• The Devil's Die - Grant Allen
• The Fatal Three - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• John Marr and Other Sailors - Herman Melville
• Looking Backward - Edward Bellamy
• Maiwa's Revenge - H. Rider Haggard
• Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Princess Casamassima - Henry James
• Robbery Under Arms - Rolf Boldrewood
• Robert Elsmere - Mary Augusta Ward
• Spring Days--A Prelude to Don Juan - George A. Moore
• The White Man's Foot - Grant Allen

Births

• January 24 - Vicki Baum, writer (+ 1960)
• Raymond Chandler, American novelist (+ 1959)
• Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Australian illustrator
• Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer
• October 16 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright

Deaths

• March 6 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist
• April 15 - Matthew Arnold, poet
• May 12 - Edward Lear, poet
• August 9 - Charles Cros, French poet

Awards