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1891 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1891.

Events

January - The Strand Magazine is first published in London. On June 25 Arthur Conan Doyle's private consulting detective Sherlock Holmes appears in it for the first time, in the story "A Scandal in Bohemia" (issue dated July).

January 31 - Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler (published in 1890) is first performed, at the Königliches Residenz-Theater in Munich (the city where it was written), with Clara Heese playing the lead. The first British performance is on April 20 at the recently reopened Vaudeville Theatre, London, with Elizabeth Robins as Hedda and co-directing.

March 13 - Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts (published in 1881) achieves a single London performance, its English-language stage première (at the Royalty Theatre). To evade the Lord Chamberlain's Office's censorship it has to be staged privately by the Independent Theatre Society, but still attracts strong criticism on moral grounds.

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