1892 in literature

The year 1892 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper becomes the second novel by an African-American woman published in the United States

New books

 * Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Venetians
 * Rhoda Broughton - Mrs. Bligh
 * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
 * The Adventure of the Speckled Band
 * Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
 * George Gissing - Born in Exile
 * George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody
 * Frances Ellen Watkins Harper - Shadows Uplifted
 * Herman Heijermans - Trinette
 * Emily Lawless - Grania: The Story of an Island
 * J. McCullough - Golf in the Year 2000
 * Helen Mathers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and 21 others - The Fate of Fenella
 * Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne - The Wrecker
 * Mark Twain - The American Claimant
 * Jules Verne - Mistress Branican
 * Mary Augusta Ward - The History of David Grieve
 * Israel Zangwill - Children of the Ghetto
 * Emile Zola - The Downfall

New drama

 * Georges Feydeau - Champignol malgré lui
 * Brandon Thomas - Charley's Aunt
 * Oscar Wilde - Lady Windermere's Fan

Poetry

 * Rudyard Kipling - Barrack-Room Ballads (including Gunga Din)

Non-fiction

 * Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread

Births

 * January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, author (died 1973)
 * February 8 - Ralph Chubb, gay poet and printer (d. 1960)
 * February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer (d. 1950)
 * February 23 - Agnes Smedley, journalist and writer (d. 1950)
 * March 18 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, essayist, novelist (d. 1955)
 * March 22 - Karel Poláček, writer, humorist, journalist (d. 1944)
 * July 1 - James M. Cain, author, newspaperman (d. 1977)
 * October 9 - Ivo Andrić (d. 1975), Serbo-Croatian novelist - winner, 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature

Deaths

 * January 20 - Christopher Pearse Cranch, poet and magazine editor (born 1813)
 * January 28 - Gustav Zerffi, journalist (b. 1820)
 * March 26 - Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819)
 * July 10 - Rudolf Westphal, classical scholar (b. 1826)
 * July 15 - Thomas Cooper, Chartist poet (b. 1805)
 * July 18 - Rose Terry Cooke, poet and novelist (b. 1827)
 * August 25 - Richard Lewis Nettleship, philosopher (b. 1846)
 * September 7 - John Greenleaf Whittier, Quaker poet (b. 1807)
 * October 17 - David Edelstadt, anarchist poet (b. 1866)
 * October 21 - Anne Charlotte Leffler, novelist and dramatist (b. 1849)
 * October 24 - Anton Gindely, historian (b. 1829)
 * December 27 - Orange Judd, editor and publisher (b. 1822)
 * date unknown
 * George Grub, historian (b. 1812)
 * Daniel Parrish Kidder, theologian (b. 1815)
 * Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle, poet (b. 1825)