1886 in literature
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See also: 1885 in literature, other events of 1886, 1887 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
[edit] New books
- Louisa May Alcott - Jo's Boys
- Edmondo De Amicis - Heart
- Leon Bloy - Disperato
- Rhoda Broughton - Doctor Cupid
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy
- Hall Caine - A Son of Hagar
- Mary Cholmondeley - The Danvers Jewels
- Wilkie Collins
- Marie Corelli - A Romance of Two Worlds
- George Eliot - Felix Holt, the Radical
- Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
- William Dean Howells - Indian Summer
- Henry James - The Bostonians
- Jerome K. Jerome - The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
- George A. Moore - A Drama in Muslin
- Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- August Strindberg - Married I-II (short stories)
- Jules Verne
- Philippe Villiers - Eva Futura
[edit] New drama
- Anton Chekhov - On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco
- W. B. Yeats - Mosada
[edit] Non-fiction
- Edwin Abbott Abbott - The Kernel and the Husk
- William Morris - A Dream of John Ball
[edit] Births
- January 14 - Hugh Lofting, author (+ 1947)
- March 1 - Oskar Kokoschka, poet and artist (+ 1980)
- September 8 - Siegfried Sassoon, poet and memoirist (+ 1967)
- September 20 - Charles Williams, British author and member of the Inklings (+ 1945)
- November 1 - Hermann Broch, Modernist writer (+ 1951)
- November 21 - Harold Nicolson, British author
- December 5 - Rose Wilder Lane, journalist (+ 1968)
[edit] Deaths
- May 15 - Emily Dickinson, poet
- May 17 - Erskine May, constitutional theorist
- July 21 - Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker, historian
- August 9 - Samuel Ferguson, poet
- November 22 - Mary Chesnut, diarist
- December 12 - Johan Nicolai Madvig, philologist
- date unknown - Matilda Jane Evans, novelist
