Arts and Literature
- 13 December - The third Theatre Royal opens in Dublin.
- Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, is published for the first time.
- Amanda McKittrick Ros publishes Irene Iddesleigh.
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Famous quotes containing the words arts and/or literature:
“In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“I make a virtue of my suffering
From nearly everything that goes on round me.
In other words, I know wherever I am,
Being the creature of literature I am,
I shall not lack for pain to keep me awake.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)