1892 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper becomes the second novel by an African-American woman published in the United States

New Books

• The American Claimant - Mark Twain
• Barrack-Room Ballads poetry including Gunga Din - Rudyard Kipling
• Born in Exile - George Gissing
• Children of the Ghetto - Israel Zangwill
• The Downfall - Emile Zola
• The Fate of Fenella - Hall Caine
• Grania: The Story of an Island - Emily Lawless
• The History of David Grieve - Mary Ward
• Mistress Branican - Jules Verne
• Mrs. Bligh - Rhoda Broughton
• Shadows Uplifted - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
• The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin
• The Venetians - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Wrecker - Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Births

• January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, author (+ 1973)
• February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer (+ 1950)
• March 18 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, essayist, novelist (+ 1955)

Deaths

• March 26 - Walt Whitman, American poet

Awards