1890 in literature

Events

New Books

• Alas![?] - Rhoda Broughton
• At Fault[?] - Kate Chopin
• The Bondman[?] - Hall Caine
• The Firm of Girdlestone[?] - Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Hazard of New Fortunes[?] - William Dean Howells
• The Light That Failed[?] - Rudyard Kipling
• Little Jarvis[?] - Molly Elliot Seawell[?]
• One Life, One Love[?] - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Scapegoat[?] - Hall Caine
• The Squatter's Dream[?] - Rolf Boldrewood
• The Way of Many Rivers[?] (poetry) - Edwin James Brady[?]
• Wormwood[?] - Marie Corelli

Births

• February 10 - Boris Pasternak author (+ 1960)
• February 11 - John de Vries[?], writer
• March 11 - Vannevar Bush, author (+ 1974)
• August 20 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer (+ 1937)
• September 10 - Franz Werfel, author (+ 1945)
• September 15 - Agatha Christie, mystery writer (+ 1976)

Deaths

• October 19 - Sir Richard Burton, author
• October 26 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio

Awards