1892 in literature

Events

• Shadows Uplifted[?] by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper[?] becomes the second novel by an African-American woman published in the United Staes[?]

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
• Grania: The Story of an Island[?] - Emily Lawless[?]
• The History of David Grieve[?] - Mary Ward
• 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

Births

• January 3 - JRR Tolkien, author (+ 1973)
• February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer (+ 1950)
• March 18 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin[?], poet, essayist, novelist (+ 1955)

Deaths

• March 26 - Walt Whitman, American poet

Awards