1887 in literature
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See also: 1886 in literature, other events of 1887, 1888 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Futabatei Shimei writes Drifting Clouds, the first modern novel in Japan.
[edit] New books
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Cut by the County
- Hall Caine - The Deemster
- Marie Corelli - Thelma
- Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
- H. Rider Haggard
- Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders
- Joris-Karl Huysmans - Un dilemme, En Rade
- Futabatei Shimei - Drifting Clouds
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Kidnapped
- Emile Zola - La Terre
[edit] Births
- February 1 - Charles Nordhoff, author (+ 1947)
- February 3 - Georg Trakl, poet (+ 1914)
- February 11 - John van Melle, South African writer
- February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis, poet (+ 1957)
- March 3 - Rupert Brooke, poet
- March 14 - Sylvia Beach, publisher
- June 2 - Orrick Johns, poet & playwright
- September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, writer (+ 1961)
[edit] Deaths
- February 10 - Mrs Henry Wood, novelist
- April 23 - John Ceiriog Hughes, poet
- May 4 - William Murdoch, poet
- August 20 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
- October 12 - Dinah Craik, novelist and poet
- November 2 - Alfred Domett, poet
- November 19 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1859)
- December 5 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)
- date unknown
- Frances Browne, poet and novelist
- Emilia Tennyson, sister of Alfred Tennyson and fiancée of Arthur Hallam
