Calendar of Literary Facts
1882
- Margaret Wilson is born
- Egypt comes under British control
- Hiram Maxim patents his Maxim machine-gun
- Modernism arises as a literary movement in Hispanic literature
- Jessie Redmon Fauset is born
- Henry James publishes The Portrait of a Lady
- Mina Lowry (Mina Loy) is born
- Jacques Maritain is born
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti dies
- James Joyce is born (February 2)
- William Harrison Ainsworth dies (January 3)
- Anthony Trollope dies (December 6)
- George Jean Nathan is born (February 14)
- A. A. Milne is born (January 18)
- Sigrid Undset is born (May 20)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies (March 24)
- Virginia Stephen (Virginia Woolf) is born (January 25)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson dies (April 27)
- Jean Giraudoux is born (October 29)
