Calendar of Literary Facts

1887

  • The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is introduced to the world in the novel A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The British Empire reaches its zenith, as Queen Victoria celebrates her Golden Jubilee
  • L. L. Zamenhof develops the language of Esperanto
  • Floyd Dell is born
  • Edna Ferber is born
  • George E. Kelly is born
  • Chief Seattle’s Scraps from a Diary--Chief Seattle—A Gentleman by Instinct—His Native Eloquence Etc. Etc. is published
  • Edith Sitwell is born
  • Robinson Jeffers is born
  • Marianne Moore is born
  • Marie-Rene-Auguste Alexis Saint-Leger Leger (St.-John Perse) is born
  • Verner von Heidenstam publishes Vallfard och vandringsaar
  • Rupert Brooke is born (August 3)
  • Marcus Garvey is born (August 17)
  • Leonard Bacon is born (May 26)