1892 in literature
See also: 1891 in literature,
other events of 1892,
1893 in literature,
list of years in literature.
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Events
\n*Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper becomes the second novel by an African-American woman published in the United States
New Books
\n*The American Claimant - Mark Twain \n*Barrack-Room Ballads poetry including Gunga Din - Rudyard Kipling\n*Born in Exile - George Gissing\n*Children of the Ghetto - Israel Zangwill\n*The Downfall - Emile Zola\n*The Fate of Fenella - Hall Caine\n*Grania: The Story of an Island - Emily Lawless\n*The History of David Grieve - Mary Ward\n*Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde (play)\n*Mistress Branican - Jules Verne\n*Mrs. Bligh - Rhoda Broughton \n*Shadows Uplifted - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper\n*The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin\n*The Venetians - Mary Elizabeth Braddon \n*The Wrecker - Robert Louis Stevenson \n*The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
\nBirths
\n* January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, author \n* February 8 - Ralph Chubb, gay poet and printer.\n* February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer\n* March 18 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, essayist, novelist \n* July 1 - James M. Cain, author, newspaperman
Deaths
\n* March 26 - Walt Whitman, American poet
Awards
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