1885 in literature

Events

• February 18 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time

New Books

• After London[?] - Richard Jefferies[?]
• Bel-Ami[?] - Guy de Maupassant
• Diana of the Crossways[?] - George Meredith
• Germinal[?] - Emile Zola
• Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
• Jacques Vingtras[?] - Jules Valles[?]
• Marius the Epicurean[?] - Walter Pater[?]
• Mathias Sandorf[?] - Jules Verne
• Prince Otto[?] - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Rise of Sylas Lapham[?] - William Dean Howells
• She's All the World to Me[?] - Hall Caine
• A Tangled Tale[?] - Lewis Carroll
• The Shadow of a Crime[?] - Hall Caine

Births

• February 7 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist (+ 1951)
• March 6 - Ring Lardner, writer (+ 1933)
• September 11 - D.H. Lawrence, author (+ 1930)

Deaths

• April 8 - Susanna Moodie[?], English-born author of "Canadiana"
• May 22 - Victor Hugo, author

Awards