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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1890.

Events

January – William Heinemann launches his Heinemann publishing business in London's Covent Garden with Hall Caine's successful novel The Bondman.^[1]
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.^[2]
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).
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.^[3]
September – Arthur Morrison joins the staff of The Globe (London newspaper).^[4]
October 20 – A day after the death of Richard Francis Burton in Trieste, his widow, Isabel, burns his journals, a revised translation of The Perfumed Garden and many more manuscripts and books, largely on account of their erotic nature.^[5]
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- 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.^[6]
- Macmillan Publishers in the U.K. begin to supply on "net book" terms, i.e. no discounts are available to retail consumers.^[7]
- 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.^[8]

New books

Fiction

Rolf Boldrewood – The Squatter's Dream
Mary Elizabeth Braddon – One Life, One Love
Rhoda Broughton – Alas!
Hall Caine
- The Bondman
- The Prophet: a Parable (novella)
Kate Chopin – At Fault
Wilkie Collins (completed after his death in 1889 by Walter Besant) – Blind Love
Marie Corelli – 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)
Lanoe Falconer – Mademoiselle Ixe
Knut Hamsun – Hunger (Sult)
E. W. Hornung – A Bride from the Bush
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" (舞姫, Maihime, short story in Kokumin no Tomo)
William Morris – News from Nowhere (serialized in Commonweal)
Octave Mirbeau – Sébastien Roch
Georges Ohnet - Serge Panine
Bolesław Prus
- The Doll (Lalka; book publication)
- The New Woman (Emancypantki; serialization begins)
Molly Elliot Seawell – Little Jarvis
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)

Births

January 9
- Karel Čapek, Czech author (died 1938)
- Barbara Euphan Todd, English children's writer (died 1976)
- Kurt Tucholsky, German writer and journalist (died 1935)
January 11 – Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian poet and polemicist (died 1954)
February 10 – Boris Pasternak, Russian author (died 1960)^[10]
March 11 – Vannevar Bush, American author (died 1974)
April 26 – Mykola Zerov, Ukrainian poet, translator, classical and literary scholar and critic (shot with many other Ukrainian intellectuals at Sandarmokh 1937)^[11]
May 15 – Katherine Anne Porter, American journalist and novelist (died 1980)
May 18 – Zora Cross, Australian poet and novelist (died 1964)
May 20 – Allan Nevins, American historian and journalist (died 1971)^[12]
May 29
- Rhoda Power, English children's writer and broadcaster (died 1957)
- Martin Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan novelist (died 1976)
May 31 – Gheorghe Eminescu, Romanian historian and memoirist (died 1988)
August 15 – Tsugi Takano (鷹野つぎ), Japanese novelist (died 1943)
August 20 – H. P. Lovecraft, American horror writer (died 1937)^[13]
August 24 – Jean Rhys, Dominica, West Indies-born English novelist (died 1979)^[14]
August 28 – Ivor Gurney, English war poet and composer (died 1937)^[15]
August 31 (August 19 O.S.) – August Alle, Estonian writer (died 1952)
September 6 – Brinsley MacNamara, born John Weldon, Irish novelist and playwright (died 1963)
September 10 – Franz Werfel, Austrian author (died 1945)
September 15 – Agatha Christie, English mystery writer (died 1976)^[16]
September 24 – A. P. Herbert, English humorist and novelist (died 1971)
October 1 – Blanche Oelrichs, American poet and playwright (died 1950)
October 13 – Conrad Richter, American novelist (died 1968)
November 2 – Moa Martinson, Swedish author (died 1964)^[17]
November 25 – Isaac Rosenberg, English poet (killed in action 1918)
December 2 – Károly Molter, Hungarian novelist, dramatist and academic (died 1981)

Deaths

January 2 – George Henry Boker, American poet and playwright (born 1823)
June 11 – George Edward Brett, American publisher (born 1829)
June 24 – Subba Row, Hindu Theosophist writer (cutaneous disease, born 1856)
July 15 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss novelist (born 1819)
July 18 – Lydia Becker, English journalist and author, co-founder of the Women's Suffrage Journal (born 1827)^[18]
August 9 – Eduard von Bauernfeld, Austrian dramatist (born 1802)
August 22 – Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian patriot, poet, dramatist, politician and diplomat (born 1821)
September 18 – Dion Boucicault, Irish dramatist (born c. 1820)
October 19 – Sir Richard Francis Burton, English explorer, translator and writer (born 1821)
October 26 – Carlo Collodi, Italian children's writer (born 1826)
November 1 – Júlio Ribeiro, Brazilian naturalist, novelist and grammarian (tuberculosis, born 1845)
December 6 – Richard William Church, English biographer and cleric (born 1815)
December 18 – Grigory Danilevsky, Russian historical novelist (born 1829)
December 19 – Zénaïde Fleuriot, French novelist (born 1829)
December 29 – Octave Feuillet, French novelist and dramatist (born 1821)^[19]

Awards

Newdigate prize – Laurence Binyon

References

^ Eliot, Simon; Rose, Jonathan (2009-04-06). A Companion to the History of the Book. Wiley. pp. 343–. ISBN 9781405192781. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
^ Bram Stoker's notes for Dracula. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. 2008. ISBN 978-0-7864-3410-7.
^ Sutherland, John (2017). Who is Dracula's Father?. London: Icon. pp. 74–5. ISBN 978-1-78578-297-8.
^ Loughlin-Chow, M. Clare (2004). "Morrison, Arthur George (1863–1945)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38649. Retrieved 2014-06-03. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ Isabel Burton; Lady Isabel Burton (1999). The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton. Asian Educational Services. p. 441. ISBN 978-81-206-0728-6.
^ "Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata". British Library. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
^ R. J. L. Kingsford; Reginald John Lethbridge Kingsford (2 January 1970). The Publishers Association 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-521-07756-9.
^ Foulkes, Richard (2008). Henry Irving: A Re-Evaluation of the Pre-Eminent Victorian Actor-Manager. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-138-66565-1.
^ Hubert, Susan J. (2002). Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives. University of Delaware Press. pp. 146–. ISBN 978-0-87413-743-9.
^ Frank Northen Magill; Alison Aves (November 1999). Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z. Routledge. p. 2899. ISBN 978-1-57958-048-3.
^ "Zerov, Mykola". encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
^ Gerald L. Fetner (1 February 2012). Immersed in Great Affairs: Allan Nevins and the Heroic Age of American History. SUNY Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7914-8566-8.
^ Charles P. Mitchell (2001). The Complete H.P. Lovecraft Filmography. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-313-31641-8.
^ Sylvie Maurel (30 October 1998). Jean Rhys. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-349-27006-4.
^ John Lucas (2001). Ivor Gurney. Oxford University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-7463-0887-5.
^ "Agatha Christie | Biography, Novels, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
^ Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Springfield: Merriam-Webster. 1995. p. 739. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6.
^ Tusan, Michelle Elizabeth (2005). Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-0-2520-3015-4.
^ Richard Kaufmann (1891). Paris of To-day. Cassell. p. 52.

[1] Eliot, Simon; Rose, Jonathan (2009-04-06). A Companion to the History of the Book. Wiley. pp. 343–. ISBN 9781405192781. Retrieved 2013-01-01.

[2] Bram Stoker's notes for Dracula. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. 2008. ISBN 978-0-7864-3410-7.

[3] Sutherland, John (2017). Who is Dracula's Father?. London: Icon. pp. 74–5. ISBN 978-1-78578-297-8.

[4] Loughlin-Chow, M. Clare (2004). "Morrison, Arthur George (1863–1945)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38649. Retrieved 2014-06-03. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

[5] Isabel Burton; Lady Isabel Burton (1999). The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton. Asian Educational Services. p. 441. ISBN 978-81-206-0728-6.

[6] "Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata". British Library. Retrieved 2014-05-28.

[7] R. J. L. Kingsford; Reginald John Lethbridge Kingsford (2 January 1970). The Publishers Association 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-521-07756-9.

[8] Foulkes, Richard (2008). Henry Irving: A Re-Evaluation of the Pre-Eminent Victorian Actor-Manager. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-138-66565-1.

[Hubert2002-9] Hubert, Susan J. (2002). Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives. University of Delaware Press. pp. 146–. ISBN 978-0-87413-743-9.

[10] Frank Northen Magill; Alison Aves (November 1999). Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z. Routledge. p. 2899. ISBN 978-1-57958-048-3.

[11] "Zerov, Mykola". encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 1 April 2024.

[12] Gerald L. Fetner (1 February 2012). Immersed in Great Affairs: Allan Nevins and the Heroic Age of American History. SUNY Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7914-8566-8.

[13] Charles P. Mitchell (2001). The Complete H.P. Lovecraft Filmography. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-313-31641-8.

[14] Sylvie Maurel (30 October 1998). Jean Rhys. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-349-27006-4.

[15] John Lucas (2001). Ivor Gurney. Oxford University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-7463-0887-5.

[16] "Agatha Christie | Biography, Novels, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 14 September 2020.

[17] Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Springfield: Merriam-Webster. 1995. p. 739. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6.

[18] Tusan, Michelle Elizabeth (2005). Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-0-2520-3015-4.

[19] Richard Kaufmann (1891). Paris of To-day. Cassell. p. 52.

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