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((short description|Overview of the events of 1890 in literature))
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1890'''.
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==Events==
*January – [[William Heinemann]] launches his [[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] publishing business in London's [[Covent Garden]] with [[Hall Caine]]'s successful novel ''[[The Bondman (novel)|The Bondman]]''.<ref>((Cite book |last1=Eliot |first1=Simon |last2=Rose |first2=Jonathan |title=A Companion to the History of the Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R8Pfs146nUAC&pg=PA343 |accessdate=2013-01-01 |date=2009-04-06 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=9781405192781 |pages=343–))</ref>
*[[January 25]] – [[L. Frank Baum]] begins publishing and editing his newspaper ''[[The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer]]'' in [[Aberdeen, South Dakota]]; it survives for just over a year.
*[[March 8]] – [[Bram Stoker]] begins work on ''[[Dracula]]''.<ref>((Cite book |title=Bram Stoker's notes for Dracula |location=Jefferson, NC |publisher=McFarland & Company|year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7864-3410-7))</ref>
*c. June–September – [[Joseph Conrad]], at this time serving as Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski with a Belgian steamer company, makes a journey on the [[Congo River]] which will inspire his novel ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' ([[1899 in literature|1899]]).
*[[July 13]] – [[Ambrose Bierce]]'s short story "[[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]]", one of his best known works, is first published, in ''[[The San Francisco Examiner]]''.
*July–August – [[Bram Stoker]] holidays with his family at [[Whitby]] on the north-east coast of England and from the library there reads William Wilkinson's ''An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia'', all of which feed into his composition of ''[[Dracula]]''.<ref>((Cite book |pages=74-5 |authorlink=John Sutherland (author) |first=John |last=Sutherland |title=Who is Dracula's Father?|publisher=Icon |location=London |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-78578-297-8))</ref>
*September – [[Arthur Morrison]] joins the staff of [[The Globe (London newspaper)|''The Globe'' (London newspaper)]].<ref>((Cite web |first=M. Clare |last=Loughlin-Chow |title=Morrison, Arthur George (1863–1945) |work=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/38649|accessdate=2014-06-03 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/38649)) ((ODNBsub))</ref>
*[[October 20]] – A day after the death of [[Richard Francis Burton]] in [[Trieste]], his widow, [[Isabel Burton|Isabel]], burns his journals, a revised translation of ''[[The Perfumed Garden]]'' and many more manuscripts and books, largely on account of their erotic nature.<ref>((cite book|author1=Isabel Burton|author2=Lady Isabel Burton|title=The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smDczyoyYKkC&pg=PA441|year=1999|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=978-81-206-0728-6|pages=441))</ref>
*''unknown dates''
**[[Leo Tolstoy]]'s novella ''[[The Kreutzer Sonata]]'', suppressed in Russia, is published in Berlin in Russian, German, English and French, with other English versions issued in the UK and the United States. The [[United States Post Office Department]] prohibits mailing of newspapers containing serialized installments of it.<ref>((Cite web |title=Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata |url=http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelplang/russian/tolstoycentenary/kreutzersonata/kreutzersonata.html |publisher=[[British Library]] |accessdate=2014-05-28))</ref>
**[[Macmillan Publishers]] in the U.K. begin to supply on "net book" terms, i.e. no discounts are available to retail consumers.<ref>((Cite book|author1=R. J. L. Kingsford|author2=Reginald John Lethbridge Kingsford|title=The Publishers Association 1896-1946|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZO5SBcKoviAC&pg=PA5|date=2 January 1970|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-07756-9|pages=5))</ref>
**[[Hall Caine]]'s four-act historical drama ''Mahomet'', based on the life of [[Muhammad]] and written for the actor-manager [[Henry Irving]], is banned by the [[Lord Chamberlain]] after it causes unrest in Britain's Muslim communities, threatens British rule in parts of India and strains Britain's relations with the Ottoman Empire.<ref>((Cite book |last1=Foulkes |first1=Richard |title=Henry Irving: A Re-Evaluation of the Pre-Eminent Victorian Actor-Manager |date=2008 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing Limited |location=Farnham, Surrey |isbn=978-1-138-66565-1 |page=59))</ref>

==New books==
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===Fiction===
*[[Rolf Boldrewood]] – ''The Squatter's Dream''
*[[Mary Elizabeth Braddon]] – ''One Life, One Love''
*[[Rhoda Broughton]] – ''Alas!''
*[[Hall Caine]]
**''[[The Bondman (novel)|The Bondman]]''
**''The Prophet: a Parable'' (novella)
*[[Kate Chopin]] – ''At Fault''
*[[Wilkie Collins]] (completed after his death in 1889 by [[Walter Besant]]) – ''[[Blind Love (novel)|Blind Love]]''
*[[Marie Corelli]] – ''[[Wormwood: A Drama of Paris|Wormwood]]''
*[[Louis Couperus]] – ''[[Footsteps of Fate]]'' (''Noodlot'' – Fate – in the magazine ''De Gids'', dated October)
*[[Jane Dieulafoy]] – ''Parysatis''
*[[Florence Dixie]] – ''Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900''
*[[Ignatius L. Donnelly]] – ''[[Caesar's Column]]''
*[[Arthur Conan Doyle]]
**''[[The Firm of Girdlestone]]''
**''The Sign of Four'' ([[Sherlock Holmes]] book-length story originally published as ''[[The Sign of the Four]]'' in ''[[Lippincott's Monthly Magazine]]'' dated February)
*[[Mary Elizabeth Hawker|Lanoe Falconer]] – ''Mademoiselle Ixe''
*[[Knut Hamsun]] – ''[[Hunger (Hamsun novel)|Hunger]]  (Sult)''
*[[E. W. Hornung]] – ''[[A Bride from the Bush]]''
*[[William Dean Howells]] – ''[[A Hazard of New Fortunes]]''
*[[Rudyard Kipling]] – ''[[The Light That Failed]]'' (in ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine'' dated January 1891)
*[[Arthur Machen]] – ''[[The Great God Pan]]'' (in the magazine ''The Whirlwind'')
*[[Karl May]] – ''Der Schatz im Silbersee'' (The Treasure of Silver Lake, begins publication)
*[[Mori Ōgai]] – "[[The Dancing Girl (short story)|The Dancing Girl]]" (舞姫, ''Maihime'', short story in ''Kokumin no Tomo'')
*[[William Morris]] – ''[[News from Nowhere]]'' (serialized in ''[[Commonweal (UK)|Commonweal]]'')
*[[Octave Mirbeau]] – ''[[Sébastien Roch (novel)|Sébastien Roch]]''
*[[Georges Ohnet]] - ''[[Serge Panine (novel)|Serge Panine]]''
*[[Bolesław Prus]]
**''[[The Doll (Prus novel)|The Doll]]'' (''Lalka''; book publication)
**''[[The New Woman]]'' (''Emancypantki''; serialization begins)
*[[Molly Elliot Seawell]] – ''Little Jarvis''
*[[Mary Taylor (women's rights advocate)|Mary Taylor]] – ''Miss Miles, or, A Tale of Yorkshire Life Sixty Years Ago''
*[[Jules Verne]] – ''[[César Cascabel]]''
*[[Oscar Wilde]] – ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' (in ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine'' dated July)

===Children and young people===
*[[Lady Florence Dixie]]
**''Aniwee, or, The Warrior Queen''
**''The Young Castaways, or, The Child Hunters of Patagonia''
*[[Joseph Jacobs]] – ''English Fairy Tales''
*[[Kate Douglas Wiggin]] – ''[[Timothy's Quest]]''
*[[Dikken Zwilgmeyer]] (as Inger Johanne) – ''Vi børn'' (We Children)

===Drama===
*[[Hall Caine]] – ''Good Old Times''
*[[Clyde Fitch]] – ''Beau Brummell''
*[[James Herne]] – ''[[Margaret Fleming (play)|Margaret Fleming]]''
*'Bjarne P. Holmsen' ([[Arno Holz]] and [[Johannes Schlaf]]) – ''Die Familie Selicke''
*[[Henrik Ibsen]] – ''[[Hedda Gabler]]''
*[[Wilhelm Jacoby]] and [[Carl Laufs]] – ''[[Pension Schöller (play)|Pension Schöller]]''
*[[Maurice Maeterlinck]] – ''[[The Blind (play)|The Blind]] (Les aveugles)''
*[[Arthur Wing Pinero]] – ''[[The Cabinet Minister]]''

===Poetry===
*[[Edwin James Brady]] – ''The Way of Many Rivers''
*[[Emily Dickinson]] (died [[1886 in literature|1886]]) – ''Poems''
*[[W. B. Yeats]] – "[[Lake Isle of Innisfree]]" (in [[National Observer (UK)|''The National Observer'' (London)]] 13 December)

===Non-fiction===
*[[Eliza Brightwen]] – ''Wild Nature Won by Kindness''
*Sir [[James George Frazer]] – ''[[The Golden Bough]]''
*[[Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop]] – ''[[A Secret Institution]]''<ref name="Hubert2002">((cite book |last=Hubert |first=Susan J. |title=Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v8qbMxKRNuQC&pg=PA146 |year=2002 |publisher=University of Delaware Press |isbn=978-0-87413-743-9 |pages=146–))</ref>
*[[Alfred Thayer Mahan]] – ''[[The Influence of Sea Power upon History]]''
*Ragnar Redbeard (perhaps [[Arthur Desmond]]) – ''[[Might Is Right]], or The Survival of the Fittest''
*[[James McNeill Whistler]] – ''[[The Gentle Art of Making Enemies]]''

==Births==
*[[January 9]]
**[[Karel Čapek]], Czech author (died [[1938 in literature|1938]])
**[[Barbara Euphan Todd]], English children's writer (died [[1976 in literature|1976]])
**[[Kurt Tucholsky]], German writer and journalist (died [[1935 in literature|1935]])
*[[January 11]] – [[Oswald de Andrade]], Brazilian poet and polemicist (died [[1954 in literature|1954]])
*[[February 10]] – [[Boris Pasternak]], Russian author (died [[1960 in literature|1960]])<ref>((cite book|author1=Frank Northen Magill|author2=Alison Aves|title=Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uiQAaGgOChIC&pg=PA2899|date=November 1999|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-57958-048-3|pages=2899))</ref>
*[[March 11]] – [[Vannevar Bush]], American author (died [[1974 in literature|1974]])
*[[May 15]] – [[Katherine Anne Porter]], American journalist and novelist (died [[1980 in literature|1980]])
*[[May 18]] – [[Zora Cross]], Australian poet and novelist (died [[1964 in literature|1964]])
*[[May 20]] – [[Allan Nevins]], American historian and journalist (died [[1971 in literature|1971]])<ref>((cite book|author=Gerald L. Fetner|title=Immersed in Great Affairs: Allan Nevins and the Heroic Age of American History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WufMwFkCZmoC&pg=PA10|date=1 February 2012|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-8566-8|pages=10))</ref>
*[[May 29]]
**[[Rhoda Power]], English children's writer and broadcaster (died [[1957 in literature|1957]])
**[[Martin Wickramasinghe]], Sri Lankan novelist (died [[1976 in literature|1976]])
*[[May 31]] – [[Gheorghe Eminescu]], Romanian historian and memoirist (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])
*[[August 15]] – [[Tsugi Takano]] (鷹野 つぎ), Japanese novelist (died [[1943 in literature|1943]])
*[[August 20]] – [[H. P. Lovecraft]], American horror writer (died [[1937 in literature|1937]])<ref>((cite book|author=Charles P. Mitchell|title=The Complete H.P. Lovecraft Filmography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_CzPwJrwQcC&pg=PA3|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31641-8|pages=3))</ref>
*[[August 24]] – [[Jean Rhys]], Dominica, West Indies-born English novelist (died [[1979 in literature|1979]])<ref>((cite book|author=Sylvie Maurel|title=Jean Rhys|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GE5dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|date=30 October 1998|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-27006-4|pages=1))</ref>
*[[August 28]] – [[Ivor Gurney]], English war poet and composer (died [[1937 in literature|1937]])<ref>((cite book|author=John Lucas|title=Ivor Gurney|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hUZvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-7463-0887-5|pages=1))</ref>
*[[August 31]] (August 19 [[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) – [[August Alle]], [[Estonian literature|Estonian]] writer (died [[1952 in literature|1952]])
*[[September 6]] – [[Brinsley MacNamara]], born John Weldon, Irish novelist and playwright (died [[1963 in literature|1963]])
*[[September 10]] – [[Franz Werfel]], Austrian author  (died [[1945 in literature|1945]])
*[[September 15]] – [[Agatha Christie]], English mystery writer  (died [[1976 in literature|1976]])<ref>((cite web |title=Agatha Christie ((!)) Biography, Novels, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Agatha-Christie |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=14 September 2020 |language=en))</ref>
*[[September 24]] – [[A. P. Herbert]], English humorist and novelist (died [[1971 in literature|1971]])
*[[October 1]] – [[Blanche Oelrichs]], American poet and playwright (died [[1950 in literature|1950]])
*[[October 13]] – [[Conrad Richter]], American novelist (died [[1968 in literature|1968]])
*[[November 2]] – [[Moa Martinson]], Swedish author (died [[1964 in literature|1964]])<ref>((cite book|title=Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature|location=Springfield|publisher=Merriam-Webster|year=1995|page=739|isbn=978-0-87779-042-6))</ref>
*[[November 25]] – [[Isaac Rosenberg]], English poet (killed in action [[1918 in literature|1918]])
*[[December 2]] – [[Károly Molter]], Hungarian novelist, dramatist and academic (died [[1981 in literature|1981]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 2]] – [[George Henry Boker]], American poet and playwright (born [[1823 in literature|1823]])
*[[June 11]] – [[George Edward Brett]], American publisher (born [[1829 in literature|1829]])
*[[June 24]] – [[Tallapragada Subba Row|Subba Row]], Hindu Theosophist writer (cutaneous disease, born [[1856 in literature|1856]])
*[[July 15]] – [[Gottfried Keller]], Swiss novelist (born [[1819 in literature|1819]])
*[[July 18]] – [[Lydia Becker]], English journalist and author, co-founder of the ''[[Women's Suffrage Journal]]'' (born [[1827 in literature|1827]])<ref>((cite book|first=Michelle Elizabeth|last=Tusan|title=Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain|location=Urbana|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2005|page=263|isbn=978-0-2520-3015-4))</ref>
*[[August 9]] – [[Eduard von Bauernfeld]], Austrian dramatist (born [[1802 in literature|1802]])
*[[September 18]] – [[Dion Boucicault]], Irish dramatist (born c. 1820)
*[[October 19]] – Sir [[Richard Francis Burton]], English explorer, translator and writer (born [[1821 in literature|1821]])
*[[October 26]] – [[Carlo Collodi]], Italian children's writer (born [[1826 in literature|1826]])
*[[November 1]] – [[Júlio Ribeiro]], Brazilian naturalist, novelist and grammarian (tuberculosis, born [[1845 in literature|1845]])
*[[December 6]] – [[Richard William Church]], English biographer and cleric (born [[1815 in literature|1815]])
*[[December 18]] – [[Grigory Danilevsky]], Russian historical novelist (born [[1829 in literature|1829]])
*[[December 19]] – [[Zénaïde Fleuriot]], French novelist (born 1829)
*[[December 29]] – [[Octave Feuillet]], French novelist and dramatist (born [[1821 in literature|1821]])<ref>((cite book|author=Richard Kaufmann|title=Paris of To-day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gwNoAAAAMAAJ|year=1891|publisher=Cassell|page=52))</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Newdigate prize]] – [[Laurence Binyon]]

==References==
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