1882 in literature

Events

New Books

• After Dark[?] - Wilkie Collins
• Anandmath[?] - Bankim Chatterjee[?]
• Bimbi: Stories for Children[?] - Ouida
• Christowell[?] - Richard Doddridge Blackmore[?]
• The Fixed Period[?] - Anthony Trollope
• The Green Ray[?] - Jules Verne
• Hopes and Fears for Art[?] - William Morris
• The Naval War of 1812[?] - Theodore Roosevelt
• The New Arabian Nights[?] - Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
• Recollections of Rossetti[?] - Hall Caine

Births

• January 18 - A. A. Milne, British author (+ 1956)
• January 25 - Virginia Woolf, writer (+ 1941)
• February 2 - James Joyce, author (+ 1941)
• May 20 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (+ 1949)
• December 13 - André Billy[?], French author (+ 1971)

Deaths

• January 6 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.[?], author
• March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author
• April 10 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet
• August 1 - Henry Kendall, poet
• December 6 - Anthony Trollope, novelist

Awards