Calendar of Literary Facts

1891

  • Pedro Antonio de Alarcón dies
  • Wireless telegraphy, the forerunner of modern radio, has its beginning
  • Ambrose Bierce publishes Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
  • Scientists discover the remains of Pithecanthropus erectus in Java
  • J. M. Barrie publishes The Little Minister
  • Henry Miller is born
  • Frank Wedekind publishes The Awakening of Spring
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series is published
  • Nella Larsen is born
  • Paer Lagerkvist is born
  • José Martí publishes Resoluciones tomadas por le emigracion cubana de Tempa
  • Thomas Hardy publishes Tess of the d’Urbervilles
  • Selma Lagerlöf publishes Goesta Berlings Saga (The Saga of Goesta Berling)
  • William Robertson Nicoll founds The Bookman, a monthly literary review, in London
  • Mikhail Bulgakov is born (May 2)
  • Zora Neale Hurston is born (January 7)
  • Arthur Rimbaud dies (November 10)
  • Pope Leo XIII issues a landmark social-justice encyclical, Rerum Novarum (May 15)
  • Sarah Winnemucca dies (October 16)
  • Sidney Howard is born (June 26)
  • Herman Melville dies (September 28)