Calendar of Literary Facts
1888
- Frans Eemil Sillanpää is born
- George Eastman develops the box camera
- Jack the Ripper murders six prostitutes in the Whitechapel district of London
- S. Y. Agnon is born
- Mourning Dove is born
- Anna Akhmatova is born
- Ethel Davis Wilson is born
- Sully Prudhomme publishes Le bonheur
- Wilhelm II (“Kaiser Wilhelm”) becomes emperor of Germany
- T. S. Eliot is born
- John Crowe Ransom is born
- Rubén Darío publishes Azul
- William Ernest Henley publishes A Book of Verses, which contains his best-known poem, “Invictus”
- William Ernest Henley edits the Scots Observer (renamed the National Observer in 1890)
- Louisa May Alcott dies (March 6)
- Fenton Johnson is born (May 7)
- Fernando Pessoa is born (June 13)
- Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (“Katherine Mansfield”) is born (October 14)
- Matthew Arnold dies (April 15)
- Maxwell Anderson is born (December 15)
- Eugene O’Neill is born (October 16)
- Raymond Chandler is born (July 23)
- Collier’s, a mass-circulation general weekly magazine, is founded by Peter Collier (April 28)