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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
- Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper becomes the second novel by an African-American woman published in the United States
New Books
- The American Claimant - Mark Twain
- Barrack-Room Ballads poetry including Gunga Din - Rudyard Kipling
- Born in Exile - George Gissing
- Children of the Ghetto - Israel Zangwill
- The Downfall - Emile Zola
- The Fate of Fenella - Hall Caine
- - Emily Lawless
- The History of David Grieve - Mary Ward
- Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde (play)
- Mistress Branican - Jules Verne
- Mrs. Bligh - Rhoda Broughton
- Shadows Uplifted - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin
- The Venetians - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- The Wrecker - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Adventure of the Speckled Band - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Births
- January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, author
- February 8 - Ralph Chubb, gay poet and printer
- February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer
- February 23 - Agnes Smedley , journalist and writer (d. 1950)
- March 18 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin , poet, essayist, novelist
- July 1 - James M. Cain, author, newspaperman
Deaths
Awards
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