1888 in literature

Events

New Books

• Adrift In The Pacific[?] - Jules Verne
• Aspern papers[?] - Henry James
• L'Aveu, drame en un acte en prose[?] - Sarah Bernhardt
• The Boyhood of Christ[?] - Lew Wallace
• Confessions of a Young Man[?] - George A. Moore
• The Devil's Die[?] - Grant Allen
• The Fatal Three[?] - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• John Marr and Other Sailors[?] - Herman Melville
• Looking Backward[?] - Edward Bellamy
• Maiwa's Revenge[?] - H. Rider Haggard
• Master of Ballantrae[?] - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Princess Casamassima[?] - Henry James
• Robbery Under Arms[?] - Rolf Boldrewood
• Robert Elsmere[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• Spring Days--A Prelude to Don Juan[?] - George A. Moore
• The White Man's Foot[?] - Grant Allen

Births

• January 24 - Vicki Baum[?], writer (+ 1960)
• Raymond Chandler, American novelist (+ 1959)
• Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Australian illustrator
• Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer
• October 16 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright

Deaths

• March 6 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist
• April 15 - Matthew Arnold, poet
• May 12 - Edward Lear, poet
• August 9 - Charles Cros, French poet

Awards