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  1. 1878 in literature. This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1878 . Events. January 28 – The Yale News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. [1]

  2. This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1877 . Events. January 24 – Émile Zola 's L'Assommoir (sometimes translated as "The Dram Shop"), seventh in his novel sequence Les Rougon-Macquart, is first published in book format a few weeks after its serialisation ends in Le Bien public (Paris).

  3. March 5 – Frank Norris, American novelist (died 1902) April 7 – Gustav Landauer, German philosopher and revolutionary (murdered 1919) June 25 – Erskine Childers, Irish novelist (executed 1922) July 27 – Hilaire Belloc, French-born English writer, poet and satirist (died 1953)

  4. Fiction. Children and young people. Drama. Poetry. Non-fiction. Births. Deaths. Awards. References. 1879 in literature. This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1879 . Events. January 1 – Benjamin Henry Blackwell opens the first Blackwell 's bookshop, in Oxford. [1]

  5. This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1874.

  6. This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1888 . Events. February 9 – During Joseph Conrad's career at sea as Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, he departs from Bangkok for Sydney in his first command as master, on the British barque Otago. This provides a basis for his novella The Shadow Line ( 1916 ).