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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1887'''.

==Events==
*February – [[Oscar Wilde]] publishes "[[The Canterville Ghost]]", his first [[short story]], in ''[[The Court and Society Review]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Oscar Wilde|title=The Canterville Ghost Annotated|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x6M9zgEACAAJ|date=16 February 2021|publisher=Independently Published|isbn=9798709933033|access-date=11 April 2021|archive-date=13 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413181244/https://books.google.com/books?id=x6M9zgEACAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[March 30]] – [[Théâtre Libre]], established by [[André Antoine]] to promote [[Naturalism (theatre)|naturalism in theatre]], gives its first performances in Paris, originally as an amateur ensemble.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Claude Schumacher|author2=John Northam|author3=Glynne W. Wickham|title=Naturalism and Symbolism in European Theatre 1850-1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tanPYs6ArLIC&pg=PA301|date=26 September 1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-23014-8|pages=301|access-date=11 April 2021|archive-date=13 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413181217/https://books.google.com/books?id=tanPYs6ArLIC&pg=PA301|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[April 22]] – [[Syracuse University]] in New York State purchases the [[Ranke Library]] from the estate of historian [[Leopold von Ranke]], outbidding the [[Prussia]]n government.
*November – [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s first [[detective novel]], ''[[A Study in Scarlet]]'', is published in ''[[Beeton's Christmas Annual]]'' by [[Ward Lock & Co]]. in London, introducing the consulting detective [[Sherlock Holmes]] and his friend and chronicler [[Dr. Watson]] (illustrated by [[D. H. Friston]]).
*[[December 5]] – The [[Berne Convention]] for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886) comes into effect.
*[[December 15]] – The Romanian literary magazine ''Revista Nouă'' is launched in [[Bucharest]] by [[Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu]], who answers a request made by [[Ioan Bianu]], [[Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea]], [[Alexandru Vlahuță]] and others. The first issue, illustrated by [[George Demetrescu Mirea]], hosts Delavrancea's ''Hagi Tudose'' and [[Petre Ispirescu]]'s ''Sarea în bucate''<ref>{{Cite journal |first=Eugeniu |last=Sperantia |authorlink=Eugeniu Sperantia |title=Reviste de altădată: ''Revista Nouă'' |journal=Steaua |issue=1 |year=1967 |pages=48–49 |language=Romanian}}</ref> (a [[Folklore of Romania|localized folkloric version]] of the [[Leir of Britain|King Leir]] myth).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cernătescu |first=Radu |year=2013 |title=Shakespeare și colindele românilor |url=https://arhiva.romanialiterara.com/index.pl/shakespeare_i_colindele_romnilor |journal=[[România Literară]] |language=Romanian |issue=50 |access-date=2023-04-13 |archive-date=2023-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171313/https://arhiva.romanialiterara.com/index.pl/shakespeare_i_colindele_romnilor |url-status=live }}</ref>
*''unknown dates''
**[[Futabatei Shimei]] writes and begins to publish ''[[The Drifting Cloud]]'' (浮雲, ''Ukigumo''), the first modern novel in [[Japan]].
**George Hutchinson establishes [[Hutchinson (publisher)|Hutchinson & Co.]] as a publisher in London.
**[[John Lane (publisher)|John Lane]] and [[Elkin Mathews]] set up in partnership under the name [[The Bodley Head]] in London, originally as antiquarian booksellers.

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Herman Bang]] – ''Stucco (Stuk)''
*[[Mary Elizabeth Braddon]] – ''Cut by the County''
*[[Hall Caine]] – ''[[The Deemster]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Ernest Franklin Bozman|title=Everyman's Encyclopaedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vwMZAQAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Dent|page=11|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413181253/https://books.google.com/books?id=vwMZAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Marie Corelli]] – ''[[Thelma (novel)|Thelma]]''
*[[F. Marion Crawford]] – ''[[Saracinesca]]''
*[[José Maria de Eça de Queiroz]] – ''[[:pt:A Relíquia|A Relíquia]]'' (The Relic)
*[[Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea]] – ''Hagi Tudose''
*[[Anna Bowman Dodd]] – ''[[The Republic of the Future]]''
*[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] – ''[[A Study in Scarlet]]''
*[[Édouard Dujardin]] – ''[[Les Lauriers sont coupés]]'' (early example of [[Stream of consciousness (narrative mode)|Stream of consciousness, narrative mode]])
*[[Benito Pérez Galdós]] – ''[[Fortunata y Jacinta]]'' (publication completed)
*[[Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau|Enrique Gaspar]] – ''El anacronópete'', first fiction to feature a [[Time travel|time machine]]<ref>{{cite web|first=Kathryn|last=Westcott|title=HG Wells or Enrique Gaspar: Whose time machine was first?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-europe-12900390|work=[[BBC News]]|date=2011-04-09|accessdate=2011-04-09|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171305/https://www.bbc.com/news|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[George Gissing]] – ''[[Thyrza]]''
*[[H. Rider Haggard]]
**''[[Allan Quatermain]]''
**''[[Jess (novel)|Jess]]''
**''[[She (novel)|She]]''
*[[Thomas Hardy]] – ''[[The Woodlanders]]''
*[[William Henry Hudson|W. H. Hudson]] – ''[[A Crystal Age]]''
*[[Joris-Karl Huysmans]] – ''[[En rade]]'' (Becalmed; serialization concludes, book publication)
*[[Petre Ispirescu]] – ''Sarea în bucate''
*[[Pierre Loti]] – ''[[Madame Chrysanthème (novel)|Madame Chrysanthème]]''
*[[Paolo Mantegazza]] – ''Testa''
*[[William Morris]] – ''The Tables Turned, Or, Nupkins Awakened: A Socialist Interlude''<ref>{{cite book|title=The Victorian Period: Excluding the Novel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pkBdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA148|date=1 April 1983|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-17060-9|pages=148}}</ref>
*[[Appu Nedungadi]] – ''[[Kundalatha]]'' (കുന്ദലത)
*[[Bolesław Prus]] – ''[[The Doll (Prus novel)|The Doll]]'' (''Lalka''; serialization begins)
*[[José Rizal]] – ''[[Noli Me Tangere (novel)|Noli Me Tangere]]''
*[[William James Roe]] (as Hudor Genone) – ''[[Bellona's Husband: A Romance]]''
*[[Hale White|Mark Rutherford]] (pseudonym of Hale White) – ''Revolution in Tanner's Lane''
*[[Futabatei Shimei]] – ''[[The Drifting Cloud]]''
*[[August Strindberg]] – ''[[The People of Hemsö]] (Hemsöborna)''
*[[Jules Verne]]
**''[[The Flight to France]] (Le Chemin de France)''<ref>{{cite book|author=Boston Public Library|title=Works of Fiction in the French Language: Together with Translations from the French, in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D0Q-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP56|year=1892|publisher=The Trustees|pages=56|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171341/https://books.google.com/books?id=D0Q-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP56|url-status=live}}</ref>
**''[[Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South]] (Nord contre Sud)''
*[[Émile Zola]] – ''[[La Terre]]'' (The Earth)

===Children and young people===
*[[Palmer Cox]] – ''The Brownies, Their Book''
*[[Robert Louis Stevenson]] – ''[[The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables]]''

===Drama===
*[[Anton Chekhov]] – ''[[Ivanov (play)|Ivanov]]''
*[[Arthur Wing Pinero]] – ''[[Dandy Dick (play)|Dandy Dick]]''
*[[Victorien Sardou]] – ''[[La Tosca]]''
*[[August Strindberg]] – ''[[The Father (Strindberg play)|The Father]]''
*[[Thomas Russell Sullivan]] – ''[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play)|Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'', adapted from 1886 [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] novella ''[[Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Mikhail Bakunin]] – ''[[God and the State]]''
*[[Hall Caine]] – ''Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge''
*[[Charles Darwin]] (died 1882) – ''[[The Autobiography of Charles Darwin]]''
*[[Julius Dresser]] – ''The True History of Mental Science''<ref>{{cite book|author=Annetta Gertrude Dresser|title=The Philosophy of P. P. Quimby: With Selections from His Manuscripts and a Sketch of His Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=10UXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5|year=1895|publisher=G. H. Ellis|pages=5|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171224/https://books.google.com/books?id=10UXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Friedrich Engels]] (translated by [[Florence Kelley]]) – ''[[The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844]]'' (first English language edition)
*[[George William Foote]] – ''Royal Paupers: a radical's contribution to the Jubilee''
*[[Franz Hartmann]] – ''The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, better known by the name of Paracelsus, and the substance of his teachings''
*[[MacGibbon and Ross|David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross]] - ''[[The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland]]''
*[[Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers]] – ''The Kabbalah Unveiled''
*[[Friedrich Nietzsche]] – ''[[On the Genealogy of Morality]]''
*[[Marius Nygaard (academic)|Marius Nygaard]], Jan Johanssen and [[Emil Schreiner]] – ''Latinsk Ordbog''
*[[E. J. Richmond]] – ''[[Woman, First and Last, and What She has Done]]''
*[[A. E. Waite]] – ''The Real History of the Rosicrucians''
*[[Mary Allen West]] – ''[[Childhood: Its Care and Culture]]''
*[[L. L. Zamenhof]] – ''[[Unua Libro]]''

==Births==
*[[January 2]] – [[Dmitrii Milev]], Soviet Moldovan shorty story writer and critic (died [[1937 in literature|1937]])
*[[January 7]] – [[Oskar Luts]], Estonian author and playwright (died [[1953 in literature|1953]])
*[[January 10]] – [[Robinson Jeffers]], American poet (died [[1962 in literature|1962]])
*[[January 22]] – [[Helen Hoyt]], American poet (died [[1972 in literature|1972]])
*[[February 1]] – [[Charles Nordhoff]], English-born author (died [[1947 in literature|1947]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Lesley Henderson|author2=D. L. Kirkpatrick|title=Twentieth-century Romance and Historical Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zs4KAQAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-0-912289-97-7|page=486|access-date=2021-04-12|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171241/https://books.google.com/books?id=zs4KAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[February 3]] – [[Georg Trakl]], Austrian poet (died of overdose [[1914 in literature|1914]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Georg Trakl|author2=Robin Skelton|title=Dark Seasons: A Selection of Poems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q5SLUMh-2gcC&pg=PA9|year=1994|publisher=Broken Jaw Press|isbn=978-0-921411-22-2|pages=9|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171246/https://books.google.com/books?id=q5SLUMh-2gcC&pg=PA9|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[February 4]] – [[Sheila Kaye-Smith]], English writer (died [[1955 in literature|1955]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Mary R. Reichardt|title=Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mpc53LXRvIQC&pg=PA193|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31147-5|pages=193|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171247/https://books.google.com/books?id=mpc53LXRvIQC&pg=PA193|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[February 11]] – [[John van Melle]], South African writer (died [[1953 in literature|1953]])
*[[February 13]] – [[Géza Csáth]], Hungarian writer, and psychiatrist (died [[1919 in literature|1919]])
*[[February 20]] – [[Carl Ebert]], German theatre and opera director (died [[1980 in literature|1980]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Ebert|title=In this Theatre of Man's Life: The Biography of Carl Ebert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SooIAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Book Guild|isbn=978-1-85776-347-8|page=1|access-date=2021-04-12|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171248/https://books.google.com/books?id=SooIAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[March 9]] – [[Ion Buzdugan]], Romanian poet and political figure (died [[1967 in literature|1967]])
*[[March 14]] – [[Sylvia Beach]] (Nancy Woodbridge Beach), American publisher and memoirist (died [[1962 in literature|1962]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Bruce Kellner|title=A Gertrude Stein Companion: Content with the Example|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ui7uAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-25078-1|page=153|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171249/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ui7uAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[May 15]] – [[Edwin Muir]], Scottish poet and translator (died [[1959 in literature|1959]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert B. Hollander|title=A Textual and Bibliographical Study of the Poems of Edwin Muir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HTMoAQAAIAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Columbia University|page=176|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171253/https://books.google.com/books?id=HTMoAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[May 31]] – [[Saint-John Perse]], French diplomat, writer and [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (died [[1975 in literature|1975]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bernard S. Schlessinger|author2=June H. Schlessinger|title=The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qFRqAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Oryx Press|isbn=978-0-89774-599-4|page=74|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171300/https://books.google.com/books?id=qFRqAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[June 2]] – [[Orrick Glenday Johns]], American poet and playwright (died [[1946 in literature|1946]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William Stanley Braithwaite|title=Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913-29 and Yearbook of American Poetry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yGIoAAAAYAAJ|year=1917|publisher=G. Sully|page=398|access-date=2021-04-12|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171302/https://books.google.com/books?id=yGIoAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[June 25]] – [[George Abbott]], American playwright, director and screenwriter (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Donald W. Whisenhunt|title=Encyclopedia USA: Abbe, Robert-Alexander, Robert Evans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RIkIAQAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Academic International Press|isbn=978-0-87569-076-6|pages=4–5|access-date=2021-04-12|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171305/https://books.google.com/books?id=RIkIAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[July 1]] – [[Amber Reeves]], New Zealand-born English scholar, feminist and novelist (died [[1981 in literature|1981]])
*[[July 6]] – [[Walter Flex]], German war writer (died [[1917 in literature|1917]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Tim Cross|title=The Lost Voices of World War I: An International Anthology of Writers, Poets & Playwrights|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z5FZAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-0-87745-264-5|page=185|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171318/https://books.google.com/books?id=z5FZAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[August 3]] – [[Rupert Brooke]], English poet (died [[1915 in literature|1915]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Lehmann|title=Rupert Brooke: His Life and His Legend|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5FFaAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|isbn=978-0-297-77757-1|page=20|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171342/https://books.google.com/books?id=5FFaAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[August 17]] – [[Marcus Garvey]], African American publisher, entrepreneur and [[Pan Africanist]] (died [[1940 in literature|1940]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Marcus Garvey|author2=Robert A. Hill|title=Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=47UwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35|date=17 August 1987|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-06265-8|pages=35|access-date=11 April 2021|archive-date=13 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171449/https://books.google.com/books?id=47UwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[August 28]] &ndash; [[István Kühár]], [[Prekmurje Slovenes|Prekmurje Slovene]] poet, writer and politician (died [[1922 in literature|1922]])
*[[September 1]] – [[Blaise Cendrars]] (Frédéric-Louis Sauser), Swiss-born French writer (died [[1961 in literature|1961]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Flower|title=Historical Dictionary of French Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA118|date=17 January 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7945-4|pages=118|access-date=11 April 2021|archive-date=13 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171312/https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA118|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[September 8]] – [[Constantin Beldie]], Romanian literary promoter and memoirist (died [[1954 in literature|1954]])
*[[September 26]] – [[Edwin Keppel Bennett]], British writer (died [[1958 in literature|1958]])
*[[October 1]] – [[Barbu Nemțeanu]], Romanian poet and translator (died [[1919 in literature|1919]])
*[[October 22]] &ndash; [[John Reed (journalist)|John Reed]], American journalist and poet (died [[1920 in literature|1920]])<ref>{{cite book|title=New Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=afkSAQAAMAAJ|date=September 1987|work=Trud.|page=28|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171317/https://books.google.com/books?id=afkSAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[November 10]] &ndash; [[Arnold Zweig]], German novelist (died [[1968 in literature|1968]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Irene Harand|title=His Struggle (an Answer to Hitler)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tQZ02whlxZoC|year=1937|publisher=Artcraft Press|page=240|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171231/https://books.google.com/books?id=tQZ02whlxZoC|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[December 15]] – [[A. de Herz]], Romanian playwright and journalist (died [[1936 in literature|1936]])

==Deaths==
*[[February 10]] – [[Ellen Wood (author)|Mrs Henry Wood]] (Ellen Wood), English novelist (born [[1814 in literature|1814]])
*[[February 11]] – [[François Laurent]], Belgian historian (born [[1810 in literature|1810]])<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Laurent, François |volume= 16 | page = 284; line four |quote=...until his death on the 11th of February 1887}}</ref>
*[[February 19]] – [[Multatuli]] (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Dutch-born writer (born [[1820 in literature|1820]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Masterplots: Cyclopedia of world authors; seven hundred fifty three novelists, poets, playwrights from the world's fine literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fe_XAAAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Salem Press|page=777|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171231/https://books.google.com/books?id=fe_XAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[February 21]] – [[Elizabeth Caroline Gray]], historian and travel author (born [[1800 in literature|1800]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |article=Gray, Rev. John Hamilton |last=Boase |first=Frederic |title=Modern English Biography |volume=1 |year=1892 |article-url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55059/55059-h/55059-h.htm |via=[[Project Gutenberg]] |access-date=2021-04-11 |archive-date=2021-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411150119/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55059/55059-h/55059-h.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[March 20]] – [[Pavel Annenkov]], Russian critic and memoirist (born [[1813 in literature|1813]])
*[[April 23]] – [[John Ceiriog Hughes]], Welsh poet and folk song collector (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-HUGH-CEI-1832|title=Hughes, John (Ceiriog; 1832-1887), poet|author=David Gwenallt Jones|access-date=2 November 2020}}</ref>
*[[May 4]] – [[William Murdoch (poet)|William Murdoch]], Scottish-born Canadian poet (born [[1823 in literature|1823]])
*[[May 5]] – [[James Grant (1822–1887)|James Grant]], Scottish novelist and historian (born [[1822 in literature|1822]])<ref>{{DNB|first=Morgan George |last=Watkins |wstitle=Grant, James (1822-1887) |volume=22 |pages=391–392}}</ref>
*[[August 20]] – [[Jules Laforgue]], French poet (born [[1860 in literature|1860]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=St James Press|author2=Anthony Levi|title=Guide to French Literature: 1789 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WFkOAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-086-5|page=345|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171246/https://books.google.com/books?id=WFkOAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[August 25]] – [[Emma Jane Guyton]] (Worboise), English novelist and magazine editor (born [[1825 in literature|1825]])
*[[September 14]] – [[Friedrich Theodor Vischer]], German novelist, poet, playwright and art theorist (born [[1807 in literature|1807]])
*[[September 27]] – [[Mikalojus Akelaitis]], Lithuanian writer, linguist and publicist (born [[1829 in literature|1829]])
*[[October 12]] – [[Dinah Craik]], English novelist and poet (born [[1826 in literature|1826]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=August Nemo|author2=Dinah Craik|title=Essential Novelists - Dinah Craik: The Ideals of English Middle-class Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dPqfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT3|date=1 July 2019|publisher=Tacet Books|isbn=978-85-7777-325-1|pages=3|access-date=11 April 2021|archive-date=13 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171255/https://books.google.com/books?id=dPqfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT3|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[November 2]] – [[Alfred Domett]], English-born New Zealand poet and politician (born [[1811 in literature|1811]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Claudia Orange|title=The Story of a Treaty|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vQs9CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA269|date=21 December 2015|publisher=Bridget Williams Books|isbn=978-1-927131-34-3|pages=269|access-date=11 April 2021|archive-date=13 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413181319/https://books.google.com/books?id=vQs9CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA269|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[November 19]] – [[Emma Lazarus]], American poet (born [[1849 in literature|1849]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Emma Lazarus|title=The Poems of Emma Lazarus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XL04AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1|year=1888|publisher=Houghton, Mifflin|pages=1|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171422/https://books.google.com/books?id=XL04AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[December 5]] – [[Eliza Roxcy Snow]], American poet (born [[1804 in literature|1804]])<ref name="Bushman1997">{{cite book|author=Claudia L. Bushman|title=Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XV4qAAAAYAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Utah State University Press|isbn=978-0-87421-233-4|page=39|access-date=2020-11-02|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413181425/https://books.google.com/books?id=XV4qAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>

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