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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1892. ==Events== *February 22 - Oscar Wilde's comedy ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' premières at St James's Theatre in London starring Winifred Emery and Marion Terry. *April 27 - The magazine ''Isis'' is established by students at the University of Oxford. *September 12 - 11-year-old Virginia Stephen, the later novelist Virginia Woolf, takes a boat trip to Godrevy Lighthouse on a family holiday in Cornwall. *October 14 - The first collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories from ''The Strand Magazine'' (June 1891–June 1892), ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'', is published by George Newnes in London; it includes Doyle's favourite, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (originally published in February). *December 9 - George Bernard Shaw's first play ''Widowers' Houses'' has its first performance, at the Royalty Theatre in London under the auspices of the Independent Theatre Society. The author is booed. *December 21 - Brandon Thomas' farce ''Charley's Aunt'' begins a record-breaking London run at the Royalty Theatre (following a pre-London opening at Bury St Edmunds on February 29). *Rehearsals for the première of Oscar Wilde's play ''Salome'' for inclusion in Sarah Bernhardt's London season are halted when the British Lord Chamberlain's licensor of plays prohibits it for inclusion of Biblical characters. *The Irish Literary Society is founded by W. B. Yeats, T. W. Rolleston and Charles Gavan Duffy in London, and the National Literary Society by Yeats in Dublin with scholar Douglas Hyde as its first president. *Carlo Collodi's ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' is first translated into English, by Mary Alice Murray. *''Shadows Uplifted'' by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper becomes the second novel by an African-American woman published in the United States. *The Schauspielhaus Zürich opens as the ''Volkstheater am Pfauen'', a music hall. 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「1892 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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