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–August – Bram Stoker holidays with his family at Whitby on the north-east coast of England and from the library there reads William Wilkinson's An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, all of which feed into his composition of Dracula.[3]
Leo Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata, suppressed in Russia, is published in Berlin in Russian, German, English and French, with other English versions issued in the UK and the United States. The United States Post Office Department prohibits mailing of newspapers containing serialized installments of it.[6]
Macmillan Publishers in the U.K. begin to supply on "net book" terms, i.e. no discounts are available to retail consumers.[7]
Hall Caine's four-act historical drama Mahomet, based on the life of Muhammad and written for the actor-manager Henry Irving, is banned by the Lord Chamberlain after it causes unrest in Britain's Muslim communities, threatens British rule in parts of India and strains Britain's relations with the Ottoman Empire.[8]
April 26 – Mykola Zerov, Ukrainian poet, translator, classical and literary scholar and critic (shot with many other Ukrainian intellectuals at Sandarmokh1937)[11]
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^Foulkes, Richard (2008). Henry Irving: A Re-Evaluation of the Pre-Eminent Victorian Actor-Manager. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-138-66565-1.
^Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Springfield: Merriam-Webster. 1995. p. 739. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6.
^Tusan, Michelle Elizabeth (2005). Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-0-2520-3015-4.