1891 in literature

See also: 1890 in literature, other events of 1891, 1892 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• La Bas - Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Diary of a Pilgrimage - Jerome K. Jerome
• Esther Vanhomrigh - Margaret L. Woods
• The Great Taboo - Grant Allen
• The Little Minister - J. M. Barrie
• The New Grub Street - George Gissing
• Peter Ibbetson - George Du Maurier
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
• Timoleon - Herman Melville
• Two Penniless Princesses - Charlotte Mary Yonge
• Unknown to History - Charlotte Mary Yonge
• The White Company - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The World, the Flesh and the Devil - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Births

• February 10 – Elliot Paul, American writer (d. 1958)
• December 26 - Henry Miller, writer (d. 1980)

Deaths

• August 12 - James Russell Lowell, poet
• September 15 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian writer
• September 28 - Herman Melville, author
• October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, writer
• November 10 - Arthur Rimbaud, poet

Awards