1890 in literature

The year 1890 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * Bram Stoker begins work on Dracula.
 * Arthur Morrison joins the staff of the Evening Globe newspaper.

New books

 * Rolf Boldrewood - The Squatter's Dream
 * Mary Elizabeth Braddon - One Life, One Love
 * Rhoda Broughton - Alas!
 * Hall Caine - The Bondman
 * Hall Caine - The Scapegoat
 * Kate Chopin - At Fault
 * Marie Corelli - Wormwood
 * Ignatius L. Donnelly - Caesar's Column
 * Arthur Conan Doyle - The Firm of Girdlestone
 * Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of Four
 * Knut Hamsun - Hunger
 * William Dean Howells - A Hazard of New Fortunes
 * Rudyard Kipling - The Light That Failed
 * William Morris - News from Nowhere
 * Octave Mirbeau - Sébastien Roch
 * Molly Elliot Seawell - Little Jarvis
 * Jules Verne - César Cascabel
 * Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

New drama

 * James Herne - Margaret Fleming
 * Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler
 * Maurice Maeterlinck - The Blind

Poetry

 * Edwin James Brady - The Way of Many Rivers

Non-fiction

 * Sir James George Frazer - The Golden Bough
 * Alfred Thayer Mahan - The Influence of Sea Power upon History
 * Ragnar Redbeard - Might Is Right, or The Survival of the Fittest
 * James McNeill Whistler - The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Births

 * January 9 - Karel Čapek author (d. 1938)
 * February 10 - Boris Pasternak author  (d. 1960)
 * March 11 - Vannevar Bush, author (d.  1974)
 * May 15 - Katherine Anne Porter, journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
 * May 20 - Allan Nevins, historian and journalist (d. 1971)
 * August 20 - H.P. Lovecraft, horror writer (d. 1937)
 * August 28 - Ivor Gurney, war poet and composer (d. 1937)
 * September 10 - Franz Werfel, author (d. 1945)
 * September 15 - Agatha Christie, mystery writer (d. 1976)
 * September 24 - A. P. Herbert, humorist and novelist (d. 1971)
 * October 1 - Blanche Oelrichs, poet & playwright (d. 1950)
 * October 13 - Conrad Richter, novelist (d. 1968)
 * November 25 - Isaac Rosenberg, war poet (d. 1918)

Deaths

 * January 2 - George Henry Boker, poet and playwright (b. 1823)
 * September 18 - Dion Boucicault, dramatist (b. c. 1820)
 * October 19 - Sir Richard Burton, author (b. 1821)
 * October 26 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio (b. 1826)
 * December 29 - Octave Feuillet, novelist and dramatist (b. 1821)

Awards

 * Newdigate prize - Laurence Binyon