1882 in literature - Definition

See also: 1881 in literature, other events of 1882, 1883 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• After Dark - Wilkie Collins
• Anandmath - Bankim Chatterjee
• - Ouida
• Christowell - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
• The Fixed Period - Anthony Trollope
• The Green Ray - Jules Verne
• Hopes and Fears for Art - William Morris
• The Naval War of 1812 - Theodore Roosevelt
• The New Arabian Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
• Recollections of Rossetti - Hall Caine

Births

• January 10 - Olive Higgins Prouty, American novelist
• January 18 - A. A. Milne, British author
• January 25 - Virginia Woolf, writer
• February 2 - James Joyce, author
• May 20 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author
• December 13 - André Billy, French author

Deaths

• January 6 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author
• March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author
• April 10 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet
• August 1 - Henry Kendall, poet
• December 6 - Anthony Trollope, novelist

Awards