1882 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1882.

Events

January 2 – Oscar Wilde arrives in the United States for an extended lecture tour sponsored by Richard D'Oyly Carte.^[1] He poses for iconic photographs in Napoleon Sarony's New York City studio.^[2]
April 9 – English poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti dies aged 53 of Bright's disease at Birchington-on-Sea in the care of his brother, the critic William Michael Rossetti.^[3]
May 20 – World première of Henrik Ibsen's controversial play Ghosts (Gengangere; 1881) in Norwegian in Chicago.^[4]
June 2 – English language première of Ibsen's play A Doll's House (1879) as The Child Wife in Milwaukee.^[4]
October
- Almqvist & Wiksell are established in Uppsala (Sweden) by purchase of an earlier printing company.
- Rudyard Kipling returns to the British Raj and joins the staff of the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore.
December – Karl May (as Captain Ramon Diaz de la Escosura) begins publication of Das Waldröschen in instalments.^[5]
Publication in Delhi of the first original novel in Hindi, Pariksha guru (Parīkṣāguru, "Experience is the Only Teacher") by Srinivas Das (Śrīnivāsdās).^[6]

José Echegaray – Conflicto entre dos deberes ("Conflict of Duties")
Victor Hugo – Torquemada
Henrik Ibsen – An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende)
Victorien Sardou – Fédora
Jules Verne – Journey Through the Impossible (Voyage à travers l'impossible)

January 10 – Olive Higgins Prouty, American novelist (died 1974)
January 18 – A. A. Milne, English children's writer and novelist (died 1956)
January 25 – Virginia Woolf, English novelist (died 1941)
February 1 – Cicely Fox Smith, English poet and nautical writer (died 1954)
February 2 – James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet (died 1941)
March 5 – Henry S. Whitehead, American author (died 1932)
May 20 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (died 1949)
May 30 – Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, Russian novelist (died 1975)
September 12 – Ion Agârbiceanu, Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer (died 1963)
October 28 – Richard Barham Middleton, English poet and editor (died 1911)
November 24 – E. R. Eddison, English fantasy author (died 1945)
December 13 – André Billy, French author (died 1971)

January 3 – William Harrison Ainsworth, English historical novelist (born 1805)
January 6 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American novelist and politician (born 1815)
March 24 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (born 1807)
April 10 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (Bright's disease, born 1828)^[7]
August 1 – Henry Kendall, Australian poet (born 1839)
October 13 – Arthur de Gobineau, French novelist (born 1816)^[8]
December 6 – Anthony Trollope, English novelist (born 1815)

↑ Cooper, John. "Oscar Wilde's 1882 American Lecture Tour". Oscar Wilde in America. Retrieved 2013-09-22.
↑ Cooper, John. "Sarony Photographs of Oscar Wilde". Oscar Wilde in America. Retrieved 2014-11-15.
↑ Letter of W. M. Rossetti to his wife Lucy. Peattie, Roger W., ed. (1990). Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti. Pennsylvania State University. p. 413.
1 2 "English first performances". Ibsen.net. 2004-05-12. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
↑ "Karl-May-Gesellschaft". Archived from the original on December 19, 2010. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
↑ Kalsi, A. S. (1992). "Parīkṣāguru (1882): The First Hindi Novel and the Hindu Elite". Modern Asian Studies. Cambridge University Press. 26: 763–790. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00010064. JSTOR 312939.
↑ Peattie, Roger W., ed. (1990). Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti. Pennsylvania State University. p. 413.
↑ http://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Arthur-comte-de-Gobineau

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