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The year 1886 in literature involved some significant new books.
Contents |
Events
- MLN: Modern Language Notes, an academic journal founded with the intention of introducing European literary criticism into American scholarship, is founded at the Johns Hopkins University.
Books
- Louisa May Alcott - Jo's Boys
- Edmondo De Amicis - Heart
- Leon Bloy - Disperato
- Rhoda Broughton - Doctor Cupid
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy
- Hall Caine - A Son of Hagar
- Mary Cholmondeley - The Danvers Jewels
- Wilkie Collins
- Marie Corelli - A Romance of Two Worlds
- Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
- William Dean Howells - Indian Summer
- Henry James - The Bostonians
- Jerome K. Jerome - The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
- Pierre Loti - Pêcheur d'Islande
- Octave Mirbeau - Le Calvaire
- George A. Moore - A Drama in Muslin
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- August Strindberg - Married I-II (short stories)
- Jules Verne
- Philippe Villiers - Eva Futura
New drama
- Anton Chekhov - On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco
- Henrik Ibsen - Rosmersholm
- William Butler Yeats - Mosada
Non-fiction
- Edwin Abbott Abbott - The Kernel and the Husk
- William Morris - A Dream of John Ball
Births
- January 14 - Hugh Lofting, author (d. 1947)
- March 1 - Oskar Kokoschka, poet and artist (d. 1980)
- September 8 - Siegfried Sassoon, poet and memoirist (d. 1967)
- September 20 - Charles Williams, British author and member of the Inklings (d. 1945)
- November 1 - Hermann Broch, Modernist writer (d. 1951)
- November 21 - Harold Nicolson, British author (d. 1968)
- December 5 - Rose Wilder Lane, journalist (d. 1968)
Deaths
- May 15 - Emily Dickinson, poet (b. 1830)
- May 17 - Erskine May, constitutional theorist (b. 1815)
- July 21 - Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker, historian (b. 1811)
- August 9 - Samuel Ferguson, poet (b. 1810)
- October 22 - Matilda Jane Evans, novelist (b. 1827)
- November 22 - Mary Chesnut, diarist (b. 1823)
- December 12 - Johan Nicolai Madvig, philologist (b. 1804)