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