1891 in literature

See also: 1890 in literature, other events of 1891, 1892 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

New Books

• La Bas[?] - Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Diary of a Pilgrimage[?] - Jerome K. Jerome
• Esther Vanhomrigh[?] - Margaret L. Woods[?]
• The Great Taboo[?] - Grant Allen
• The Little Minister[?] - J. M. Barrie
• The New Grub Street[?] - George Gissing[?]
• Peter Ibbetson[?] - George Du Maurier
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
• Timoleon[?] - Herman Melville
• Two Penniless Princesses[?] - Charlotte Mary Yonge
• Unknown to History[?] - Charlotte Mary Yonge
• The White Company[?] - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The World, the Flesh and the Devil[?] - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Births

• December 26 - Henry Miller, writer

Deaths

• August 12 - James Russell Lowell, poet
• September 15 - Ivan Goncharov[?], Russian writer
• September 28 - Herman Melville, author
• October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, writer
• November 10 - Arthur Rimbaud, poet

Awards