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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1887.

Events

February – Oscar Wilde publishes "The Canterville Ghost", his first short story, in The Court and Society Review.
March 30 – Théâtre Libre, established by André Antoine to promote naturalism in theatre, gives its first performances in Paris, originally as an amateur ensemble.
April 22 – Syracuse University in New York State purchases the Ranke Library from the estate of historian Leopold von Ranke, outbidding the Prussian government.
November – Arthur Conan Doyle's first detective novel, A Study in Scarlet, is published in Beeton's Christmas Annual by Ward Lock & Co. in London, introducing the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler Dr. Watson (illustrated by D. H. Friston).
December 5 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886) comes into effect.
December 15 – The Romanian literary magazine Revista Nouă is launched in Bucharest by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, who answers a request made by Ioan Bianu, Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea, Alexandru Vlahuță and others. The first issue, illustrated by George Demetrescu Mirea, hosts Delavrancea's Hagi Tudose and Petre Ispirescu's Sarea în bucate[1] (a localized folkloric version of the King Leir myth).[2]
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- Futabatei Shimei writes and begins to publish The Drifting Cloud (浮雲, Ukigumo), the first modern novel in Japan.
- George Hutchinson establishes Hutchinson & Co. as a publisher in London.
- John Lane and Elkin Mathews set up in partnership under the name The Bodley Head in London, originally as antiquarian booksellers.

New books

Non-fiction

Mikhail Bakunin – God and the State
Hall Caine – Life of Samuel Coleridge Taylor
Charles Darwin (died 1882) – The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Julius Dresser – The True History of Mental Science
Friedrich Engels (translated by Florence Kelley) – The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (first English language edition)
George William Foote – Royal Paupers: a radical's contribution to the Jubilee
Franz Hartmann – The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, better known by the name of Paracelsus, and the substance of his teachings
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers – The Kabbalah Unveiled
Friedrich Nietzsche – On the Genealogy of Morality
Marius Nygaard, Jan Johanssen and Emil Schreiner – Latinsk Ordbog
A. E. Waite – The Real History of the Rosicrucians
L. L. Zamenhof – Unua Libro

Births

January 7 – Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (died 1953)
February 1 – Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (died 1947)
February 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (died of overdose 1914)
February 11 – John van Melle, South African writer (died 1953)
February 18 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek poet (died 1957)
March 3 – Rupert Brooke, English poet (died 1915)
March 9 – Ion Buzdugan, Romanian poet and political figure (died 1967)
March 14 – Sylvia Beach (Nancy Woodbridge Beach), American publisher and memoirist (died 1962)
May 15 – Edwin Muir, Scottish poet and translator (died 1959)
June 2 – Orrick Glenday Johns, American poet and playwright (died 1946)
July 1 – Amber Reeves, New Zealand-born English scholar, feminist and novelist (died 1981)
September 1 – Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric-Louis Sauser), Swiss-born French writer (died 1961)
September 8 – Constantin Beldie, Romanian literary promoter and memoirist (died 1954)
October 1 – Barbu Nemțeanu, Romanian poet and translator (died 1919)
December 15 – A. de Herz, Romanian playwright and journalist (died 1936)

Deaths

February 10 – Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood), English novelist (born 1814)
February 19 – Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Dutch-born writer (born 1820)
April 23 – John Ceiriog Hughes, Welsh poet and folk song collector (born 1832)[4]
May 4 – William Murdoch, Scottish-born Canadian poet (born 1823)
August 20 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (born 1860)
August 25 – Emma Jane Guyton (Worboise), English novelist and magazine editor (born 1825)
October 12 – Dinah Craik, English novelist and poet (born 1826)
November 2 – Alfred Domett, English-born New Zealand poet and politician (born 1811)
November 19 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (born 1849)
December 5 – Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (born 1804)[5]

References

Sperantia, Eugeniu (1967). "Reviste de altădată: Revista Nouă". Steaua (in Romanian) (1): 48–49.
Cernătescu, Radu (2013). "Shakespeare și colindele românilor". România Literară (in Romanian) (50).
Westcott, Kathryn (2011-04-09). "HG Wells or Enrique Gaspar: Whose time machine was first?". BBC News. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
David Gwenallt Jones. "Hughes, John (Ceiriog; 1832-1887), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
Claudia L. Bushman (1997). Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah. Utah State University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-87421-233-4.

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[1] Sperantia, Eugeniu (1967). "Reviste de altădată: Revista Nouă". Steaua (in Romanian) (1): 48–49.

[2] Cernătescu, Radu (2013). "Shakespeare și colindele românilor". România Literară (in Romanian) (50).

[3] Westcott, Kathryn (2011-04-09). "HG Wells or Enrique Gaspar: Whose time machine was first?". BBC News. Retrieved 2011-04-09.

[4] David Gwenallt Jones. "Hughes, John (Ceiriog; 1832-1887), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2020.

[Bushman1997-5] Claudia L. Bushman (1997). Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah. Utah State University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-87421-233-4.