1892 in literature

The year 1892 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

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

New books

• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Venetians
• Rhoda Broughton - Mrs. Bligh
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
• George Gissing - Born in Exile
• George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper - Shadows Uplifted
• Herman Heijermans - Trinette
• Emily Lawless - Grania: The Story of an Island
• J. McCullough - Golf in the Year 2000
• Helen Mathers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and 21 others - The Fate of Fenella
• Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne - The Wrecker
• Mark Twain - The American Claimant
• Jules Verne - Mistress Branican
• Mary Ward - The History of David Grieve
• Israel Zangwill - Children of the Ghetto
• Emile Zola - The Downfall

New drama

• Georges Feydeau - Champignol malgré lui
• Maurice Maeterlinck - Pelléas et Mélisande
• Brandon Thomas - Charley's Aunt
• Oscar Wilde - Lady Windermere's Fan

Poetry

• Rudyard Kipling - Barrack-Room Ballads (including Gunga Din)

Non-fiction

• Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread

Births

• January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, author
• February 8 - Ralph Chubb, gay poet and printer
• February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer
• February 23 - Agnes Smedley, journalist and writer (d. 1950)
• March 18 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, essayist, novelist
• March 22 - Karel Poláček, writer, humorist, journalist (d. 1944)
• July 1 - James M. Cain, author, newspaperman
• October 9 - Ivo Andrić (d.1975), Serbo-Croatian novelist - winner, 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature

Deaths

• January 20 - Christopher Pearse Cranch, poet and magazine editor
• March 26 - Walt Whitman, American poet
• July 10 - Rudolf Westphal, classical scholar
• July 18 - Rose Terry Cooke, poet and novelist
• August 25 - Richard Lewis Nettleship, philosopher
• September 7 - Greenleaf Whittier, Quaker poet
• October 17 - David Edelstadt, anarchist poet
• October 21 - Anne Charlotte Leffler, novelist and dramatist
• October 24 - Anton Gindely, historian
• December 27 - Orange Judd, editor and publisher
• date unknown
• Thomas Cooper, Chartist poet
• George Grub, historian
• Daniel Parrish Kidder, theologian
• Gustav Zerffi, journalist
• Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle, poet

Awards