- 1884 in literature
The year 1884 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
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February 1 - Edition one of the "Oxford English Dictionary " is published.New books
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Edwin Abbott Abbott - "Flatland "
*Henry Brooks Adams - "Esther"
*Aluísio de Azevedo - "Casa de Pensão "
*Richard Doddridge Blackmore - "Tommy Upmore "
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "Ishmael. A Novel "
*Wilkie Collins - "'I Say No' "
*Joris-Karl Huysmans
**"Controcorrente "
**"À rebours "
*Helen Hunt Jackson - "Ramona "
*George A. Moore - "A Mummer's Wife "
*Margaret Oliphant
**"The Ladies Lindores "
**"The Wizard's Son "
*Rachilde - "Monsieur Vénus"
*Leo Tolstoy - "The Death of Ivan Ilyich "
*Jules Verne
**"The Vanished Diamond "
**"The Archipelago on Fire "
*Mary Augusta Ward - "Miss Bretherton "New drama
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Henrik Ibsen - "The Wild Duck "Poetry
*William Watson -"Epigrams of Art, Life and Nature"
Non-fiction
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Friedrich Engels - "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State "
*"Herefordshire Pomona "
*Henry James - "A Little Tour in France "
*George Fletcher Moore - "Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia "Births
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January 2 -Oscar Micheaux ,African-American author & filmmaker (+1951 )
*March 13 - SirHugh Walpole , novelist (+1941 )
*August 8 –Sara Teasdale , poet (d.1933 )
*August 10 -Panait Istrati ,Romania n novelist and short story writer (d.1935 )
*August 24 -Earl Derr Biggers , writerDeaths
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January 11 -Hermann Ulrici , philosopher
*March 10 -William Blanchard Jerrold , journalist
*March 24 -François Mignet , historian
*April 5 -John Wisden , originator of the "Cricketers' Almanack"
*April 6 -Emanuel Geibel , poet
*April 11 -Charles Reade , English writer
*May 27 -Caroline Dexter , feminist writer
*May 28 -Joseph d'Haussonville , historian
*June 10 -Johann Gustav Droysen , historian
*October 16 -Paul Lacroix , novelist and journalist
*October 19 -Karl Hillebrand , literary historian and philosopher
*November 6 -William Wells Brown , African-American writer
*"date unknown"
**František Doucha , translator
**John Harris, poetAwards
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