1882 in literature

See also: 1881 in literature, other events of 1882, 1883 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New books

• After Dark – Wilkie Collins
• Anandmath – Bankim Chatterjee
• Bimbi: Stories for Children – Ouida
• Christowell – Richard Doddridge Blackmore
• The Fixed Period – Anthony Trollope
• The Green Ray – Jules Verne
• Hopes and Fears for Art – William Morris
• The Naval War of 1812 – Theodore Roosevelt
• The New Arabian Nights – Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
• Recollections of Rossetti – Hall Caine

Births

• January 10 – Olive Higgins Prouty, American novelist
• January 18 – A. A. Milne, British author
• January 25 – Virginia Woolf, writer
• February 2 – James Joyce, author
• May 20 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author
• December 13 – André Billy, French author

Deaths

• January 6 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author
• March 24 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author
• April 10 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet
• August 1 – Henry Kendall, poet
• December 6 – Anthony Trollope, novelist

Awards