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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1890. ==Events== *January - William Heinemann launches his Heinemann publishing business in London's Covent Garden with publication of Hall Caine's successful novel ''The Bondman''. *March 8 - Bram Stoker begins work on ''Dracula''. *c. June–September - Joseph Conrad, at this time serving as Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski with a Belgian steamer company, makes a journey on the Congo River which will inspire his novel ''Heart of Darkness'' (1899). *July 13 - Ambrose Bierce's short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", one of his best known works, is first published, in ''The San Francisco Examiner''. *September - Arthur Morrison joins the staff of ''The Globe'' (London newspaper).〔 〕 *October 19 - Death of Sir Richard Francis Burton in Trieste, following which his widow, Isabel, burns his journals, a revised translation of ''The Perfumed Garden'' and many more manuscripts and books, largely on account of their erotic nature. *Leo Tolstoy's novella ''The Kreutzer Sonata'', being suppressed in Russia, is published in Berlin in Russian, German, English and French, with other English versions issued in England and the United States. The United States Post Office Department prohibits mailing of newspapers containing serialized installments.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelplang/russian/tolstoycentenary/kreutzersonata/kreutzersonata.html )〕 *Macmillan Publishers in the U.K. begin to supply on "net book" terms, i.e. no discount is available to consumers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1890 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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