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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1882'''.

==Events==
[[File:Oscar Wilde MET DP136272.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Napoleon Sarony]]'s portrait of [[Oscar Wilde]]]]
*[[January 2]] – [[Oscar Wilde]] arrives in the United States for an extended lecture tour sponsored by [[Richard D'Oyly Carte]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/lectures-1882/index.html |title=Oscar Wilde Lecture Tour 1882 |last=Cooper |first=John |work=Oscar Wilde in America |accessdate=2014-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016014206/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/lectures-1882/index.html |archive-date=2017-10-16 |url-status=dead}}</ref> A few days later he poses for iconic photographs in [[Napoleon Sarony]]'s [[Manhattan]] studio.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://oscarwildeinamerica.org/sarony/sarony-photographs.html |title=Sarony Photographs of Oscar Wilde |last=Cooper |first=John|work=Oscar Wilde in America |accessdate=2014-11-15}}</ref>
*[[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]].<ref>Letter of W. M. Rossetti to his wife Lucy. {{Cite book |title=Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti |editor=Peattie, Roger W. |publisher=Pennsylvania State University |year=1990 |page=413}}</ref>
*[[April 29]] – [[May 6]] ([[Old Style and New Style dates|O. S.]]: April 17–24) – The Romanian poet [[Mihai Eminescu]] reads out his ''[[Luceafărul (poem)|Luceafărul]]'' at two successive meetings of ''[[Junimea]]'' club in [[Iași]]. The poem, on which he had been working since [[1873 in literature|1873]], is his last major work before his mental health collapses, requiring hospital care in [[Oberdöbling]]; it will be published in April [[1883 in literature|1883]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Perpessicius|authorlink=Perpessicius |title=Studii eminesciene |publisher=Museum of Romanian Literature |location=Bucharest |year=2001 |pages=104, 200, 207–210, 217–219, 232–233, 241–242, 246, 262, 265, 273, 276–278, 297, 353, 382–383 and 388 |isbn=973-8031-34-6}}</ref>
*[[May 8]] – World première of [[David Belasco]]'s ''La Belle Russe'' in [[New York City]]
*[[May 20]] – World première of [[Henrik Ibsen]]'s controversial play ''[[Ghosts (play)|Ghosts]]'' (''Gengangere''; 1881) in [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] in [[Chicago]].<ref name="Ibsen net">{{Cite web |title=English first performances |url=http://www.ibsen.net/index.gan?id=90071&subid=0 |work=Ibsen.net |date=2004-05-12 |accessdate=2013-02-08}}</ref>
*[[June 2]] – English language première of Ibsen's play ''[[A Doll's House]]'' (1879) as ''The Child Wife'' in [[Milwaukee]].<ref name="Ibsen net"/>
*October
**[[:sv:Almqvist & Wiksell|Almqvist & Wiksell]] is 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 to publish ''Das Waldröschen'' in installments.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.karl-may-gesellschaft.de/kmg/primlit/roman/roeschen/index.htm |title=Karl-May-Gesellschaft |accessdate=2013-01-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219031435/http://karl-may-gesellschaft.de/kmg/primlit/roman/roeschen/index.htm |archivedate=December 19, 2010}}</ref>
*''unknown date'' – In [[Delhi]], the first original novel in [[Hindi]] is published: ''[[Pariksha guru]]'' (''Parīkṣāguru'', "Experience is the Only Teacher") by [[Srinivas Das]] (Śrīnivāsdās).<ref>{{Cite journal |first=A. S. |last=Kalsi |year=1992 |title=Parīkṣāguru (1882): The First Hindi Novel and the Hindu Elite |journal=[[Modern Asian Studies]] |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=763–790 |doi=10.1017/S0026749X00010064 |jstor=312939|s2cid=144281907 }}</ref>

==New books==
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===Fiction===
*[[Thomas Anstey Guthrie|F. Anstey]] – ''[[Vice Versa (novel)|Vice Versa]]''
*[[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly]] – ''[[The Story Without a Name (novel)|The Story Without a Name]]''
*[[Walter Besant]] – ''The Revolt of Man''
*[[Rolf Boldrewood]] – ''[[Robbery Under Arms]]'' (serialization in ''[[The Sydney Mail]]'' begins, July)
*[[Félicien Champsaur]] – ''Dinah Samuel''
*[[Bankim Chatterjee]] – ''[[Anandmath]]''
*[[Wilkie Collins]] – ''After Dark'' (short stories)
*[[Gabriele D'Annunzio]] – ''Terra vergine'' (short stories)
*Etonensis ([[George Augustus Sala]] and [[James Campbell Reddie]]) – ''[[The Mysteries of Verbena House|The Mysteries of Verbena House, or, Miss Bellasis Birched for Thieving]]''
*[[Theodor Fontane]] – ''L'Adultera'' (The Adulteress)
*[[Karl Adolph Gjellerup]] – ''Germanernes Lærling'' (The Germans' Apprentice)
*[[Ludovic Halévy]] – ''[[The Abbot Constantine (novel)|The Abbot Constantine]]''
*[[Richard Jefferies]] – ''Bevis''
*[[Alexander Kielland]] – ''Skipper Worse''
*[[George Bernard Shaw]] – ''[[Cashel Byron's Profession]]''
*[[Robert Louis Stevenson]] – ''[[New Arabian Nights]]''
*[[Frank R. Stockton]] – "[[The Lady, or the Tiger?]]" (short story in ''[[The Century Magazine]]'', November)
*[[Torfhildur Þorsteinsdóttir]] (Hólm) – ''Brynjólfur Sveinsson biskup''
*[[Anthony Trollope]] – ''[[The Fixed Period]]''
*[[Gleb Uspensky]] – ''[[The Power of the Land]]'' («Власть земли», in ''[[Otechestvennye Zapiski]]'', 1–2, and book publication)
*[[Jules Verne]]
**''[[Godfrey Morgan|Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery]] (L'École des Robinsons)''
**''[[The Green Ray]] (Le Rayon vert'')

===Children and young people===
*[[R. D. Blackmore]] – ''[[Christowell]]''
*[[Lucy Clifford|Mrs. W. K. Clifford]] – ''Anyhow Stories, Moral and Otherwise''
*[[Ouida]] – ''Bimbi: Stories for Children''
*[[Mark Twain]] – ''[[The Prince and the Pauper]]''

===Drama===
*[[David Belasco]] - ''La Belle Russe''<ref>{{cite book|author=William W. Demastes|title=American Playwrights, 1880-1945: A Research and Production Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CIcUAQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-28638-4|page=57}}</ref>
*[[Manilal Dwivedi]] – ''[[Kanta (play)|Kanta]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Amaresh Datta|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&pg=PA1130|year=1988|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1194-0|pages=1130}}</ref>
*[[José Echegaray]] – ''Conflicto entre dos deberes'' (Conflict of Duties)<ref>{{cite book|title=Anales de la Universidad, Republica Oriental del Uruguay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3mFHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA849|year=1893|publisher=Escuela Nacional de Artes y Oficios|pages=849}}</ref>
*[[Victor Hugo]] – ''[[Torquemada (play)|Torquemada]]''
*[[Henrik Ibsen]] – ''[[An Enemy of the People]] (En folkefiende)''
*[[Victorien Sardou]] – ''[[Fédora (play)|Fédora]]''
*[[R. L. Stevenson]] and [[W. E. Henley]] – ''Deacon Brodie''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Wing Pinero|title=The Second Mrs Tanqueray|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HDvJAHTEsOIC&pg=PA143|date=18 September 2007|publisher=Broadview Press|isbn=978-1-77048-231-9|pages=143}}</ref>
*[[Jules Verne]] – ''[[Journey Through the Impossible]] (Voyage à travers l'impossible)''

===Poetry===
*[[Gabriele D'Annunzio]] – ''Canto novo''
*[[George Robert Sims]] – ''The Dagonet Ballads''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Henri-Frédéric Amiel]] (died 1881) – ''[[:fr:Henri-Frédéric Amiel#Journal intime|Journal intime]]''
*[[Hall Caine]] – ''Recollections of Rossetti''
*[[Ignatius L. Donnelly]] – ''[[Atlantis: The Antediluvian World]]''
*[[William Morris]] – ''Hopes and Fears for Art''
*[[Friedrich Nietzsche]] – ''[[The Gay Science]] (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft)''
*[[Theodore Roosevelt]] – ''[[The Naval War of 1812]]''
*[[Janez Trdina]] – ''Bajke in povesti o Gorjancih'' (Tales and Stories of the Gorjanci Mountains)

==Births==
*[[January 10]] – [[Olive Higgins Prouty]], American novelist (died [[1974 in literature|1974]])
*[[January 18]] – [[A. A. Milne]], English fiction writer, particularly for children (died [[1956 in literature|1956]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Scott Kastan|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlMUSz-hiuEC&pg=RA1-PA502|year=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-516921-8|pages=1}}</ref>
*[[January 25]] – [[Virginia Woolf]], English novelist (died [[1941 in literature|1941]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Virginia Woolf |url=https://www.bl.uk/people/virginia-woolf |website=The British Library |accessdate=28 March 2019}}</ref>
*[[February 1]] – [[C. Fox Smith|Cicely Fox Smith]], English poet and nautical writer (died [[1954 in literature|1954]])
*[[February 2]] – [[James Joyce]], Irish novelist and poet (died [[1941 in literature|1941]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/what-does-joyce-mean-to-you-1.678911|title=What does Joyce mean to you?|first=Rosita|last=Bol|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=17 December 2018}}</ref>
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[George Jean Nathan]], American literary critic (died [[1958 in literature|1958]])
*[[March 5]] – [[Henry S. Whitehead]], American author (died [[1932 in literature|1932]])
*[[April 18]] – [[Monteiro Lobato]], Brazilian fiction writer, particularly for children (died [[1948 in literature|1948]])
*[[May 20]] – [[Sigrid Undset]], Norwegian author (died [[1949 in literature|1949]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Mitzi Brunsdale|title=Sigrid Undset, Chronicler of Norway|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzhcAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Berg|isbn=978-0-85496-027-9|page=1}}</ref>
*[[May 28]] – [[Avery Hopwood]], American playwright (died [[1928 in literature|1928]])
*[[May 30]] – [[Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov]], Russian novelist (died [[1975 in literature|1975]])
*[[September 4]] – [[Leonhard Frank]], German writer (died [[1961 in literature|1961]])
*[[September 12]] – [[Ion Agârbiceanu]], Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer (died [[1963 in literature|1963]])
*[[September 17]] – [[Darrell Figgis]], Irish writer and politician (suicide [[1925 in literature|1925]])
*[[October 28]] – [[Richard Barham Middleton]], English poet and fiction writer (died [[1911 in literature|1911]])
*[[November 2]] – [[Leo Perutz]], Austrian-born novelist and mathematician (died [[1957 in literature|1957]])
*[[November 18]] – [[Wyndham Lewis]], British novelist (died [[1957 in literature|1957]])
*[[November 24]] – [[E. R. Eddison]], English fantasy author (died [[1945 in literature|1945]])
*[[December 13]] – [[André Billy (writer)|André Billy]], French author (died [[1971 in literature|1971]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 3]] – [[William Harrison Ainsworth]], English historical novelist (born [[1805 in literature|1805]])
*[[January 6]] – [[Richard Henry Dana Jr.]], American novelist and politician (born [[1815 in literature|1815]])
*[[February 5]] – [[E. Louisa Mather]], American writer n (born [[1815 in literature|1815]])
*[[March 20]] – [[Charlotte Chanter]], English botanical writer and novelist (born [[1828 in literature|1828]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Genealogist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oyE9AQAAIAAJ|year=1914|page=38}}</ref>
*[[March 24]] – [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], American poet (born [[1807 in literature|1807]])
*[[April 10]] – [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]], English poet and painter ([[Bright's disease]], born [[1828 in literature|1828]])<ref name=SLWMR>{{Cite book |title=Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti| editor=Peattie, Roger W. |publisher=Pennsylvania State University |year=1990 |page=413}}</ref>
*[[April 27]] – [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], American poet, essayist and philosopher (born [[1803 in literature|1803]])
*[[June 14]] – [[Thomas Cautley Newby]], English publisher (born c.[[1797 in literature|1797]])
*[[June 30]] – [[Charles J. Guiteau]], American writer and lawyer, assassin of United States President [[James A. Garfield]] (born [[1841 in literature|1841]])
*[[August 1]] – [[Henry Kendall (poet)|Henry Kendall]], Australian poet (born [[1839 in literature|1839]])
*[[October 13]] – [[Arthur de Gobineau]], French novelist (born [[1816 in literature|1816]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Arthur-comte-de-Gobineau. |title= Joseph-Arthur, comte de Gobineau &#124; French diplomat, writer, and ethnologist|website=www.britannica.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160429091646/http://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Arthur-comte-de-Gobineau |archive-date=2016-04-29}}</ref>
*[[December 6]] – [[Anthony Trollope]], English novelist (born [[1815 in literature|1815]])

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