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