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The year 1894 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

  • Robert Frost
    Robert Frost

    Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech....
     sells his first poem, "My Butterfly", to The New York Independent for fifteen dollars.
  • Hermann Hesse
    Hermann Hesse

    Hermann Hesse was a German-Switzerland poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf , Siddhartha , and The Glass Bead Game which explore an individual's search for spirituality outside society....
     begins his apprenticeship at a factory in Calw.
  • Lafcadio Hearn
    Lafcadio Hearn

    Patrick Lafcadio Hearn , also known as after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known for his collections of Japanese legends and kwaidan, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things....
     begins working as a journalist for the English-language Kobe Chronicle.
  • Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
     writes his Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

    Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun is a musical composition for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration. It was first performed in Paris on December 22, 1894, conducted by Gustave Doret....
    , a free interpretation of St?phane Mallarmé's 1876 poem, "L'après-midi d'un faune".
  • Mary Antin
    Mary Antin

    Mary Antin was an United States author and immigration rights activist.Born to a Jewish family in Polotsk, she immigrated to the Boston, Massachusetts area with her mother and siblings in 1894....
     emigrates from Belarus
    Belarus

    Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
     to the USA with her family.


New books

  • Gabriele D'Annunzio
    Gabriele D'Annunzio

    Gabriele d'Annunzio was an Italy poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and daredevil who went on to have a controversial role in politics as an influence on the Italian Fascist movement and the alleged forerunner of Benito Mussolini....
     - The Triumph of Death
  • Richard Doddridge Blackmore -Perlycross
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon

    Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a United Kingdom Victorian era popular Novelists. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret....
     - The Christmas Hirelings
  • Walter Browne - 2894
    2894 (novel)

    2894, or The Fossil Man is a 1894 in literature Utopian and dystopian fiction written by Walter Browne. It is one entrant in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century....
  • Hall Caine
    Hall Caine

    Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire , usually known as Hall Caine, was a United Kingdom author....
     - The Madhi: or Love and Race, A Drama in Story
    • The Manxman
  • Kate Chopin
    Kate Chopin

    Kate Chopin was an United States author of short story and novels, mostly of a Louisiana Creole people background. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century....
     - Bayou Folk
  • Ella Hepworth Dixon
    Ella Hepworth Dixon

    Ella Hepworth Dixon was a British author during the late Victorian period.Her best known work is the New Woman novel The Story of a Modern Woman....
     - The Story of a Modern Woman
    The Story of a Modern Woman

    The Story of a Modern Woman is a novel written by English author Ella Hepworth Dixon. The novel was first published in 1894 in literature. The novel is an example of the "New Woman" genre of late-Victorian England....
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant was a Scotland author most noted for his stories about the Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger....
     - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle....
  • George du Maurier
    George du Maurier

    George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a France-born British author and cartoonist....
     - Svengali's Web
    • Trilby
      Trilby (novel)

      Trilby is a gothic fiction horror fiction novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de si?cle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula....
  • Theodor Fontane
    Theodor Fontane

    Theodor Fontane was a Germany novelist and poet, regarded by many to be the most important 19th-century German-language Literary realism writer....
     - Effi Briest
    Effi Briest

    Effi Briest is widely considered to be Theodor Fontane's masterpiece and one of the most famous German language Literary realism novels of all time....
  • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Pembroke
  • George Gissing
    George Gissing

    George Robert Gissing was an England novelist who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. From his early Naturalism works, he developed into one of the most accomplished Realism of the late-Victorian era....
     - In the Year of Jubilee
  • H. Rider Haggard
    H. Rider Haggard

    Sir Henry Rider Haggard Order of the British Empire , was a prolific writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire....
     - The People of the Mist
    The People of the Mist

    The People of the Mist is a classic lost city fantasy novel written by H. Rider Haggard. It was first published serially in the magazine Tit-Bits Weekly from December, 1893 through August, 1894; the first book edition was published in London by Longmans in October, 1894....
  • Knut Hamsun
    Knut Hamsun

    Knut Hamsun, born Knud Pedersen was a Norwegian literature. He was considered by Isaac Bashevis Singer to be the "father of modern literature", and by Haakon VII of Norway to be Norway's soul....
     - Pan
    Pan (novel)

    Pan is a 1894 in literature novel by the Norway author Knut Hamsun. Written while he lived in Paris, France and in Kristiansand, Norway, Hamsun was directly influenced by the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky....
  • Anthony Hope
    Anthony Hope

    Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope , was an English people novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau ....
     - The Prisoner of Zenda
    The Prisoner of Zenda

    The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, 1894 in literature. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is abducted on the eve of his coronation, and the protagonist, an English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situat...
  • William Dean Howells
    William Dean Howells

    William Dean Howells was an United States Realism author and literary critic....
     - A Traveler from Altruria
    A Traveler from Altruria

    A Traveler from Altruria is a Utopian novel by William Dean Howells first published in installments in Cosmopolitan , Vol. XIV, No.1 to Vol....
  • Jerome K. Jerome
    Jerome K. Jerome

    Jerome Klapka Jerome was an England writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England, where there is now a museum in his honour, and was brought up in poverty in London....
     - John Ingerfield: And Other Stories
  • Rudyard Kipling
    Rudyard Kipling

    Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet. Born in Mumbai, British India , he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book , Kim , many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King ; and his poems, including Mandalay , Gunga Din , and If? ....
     - The Jungle Book
    The Jungle Book

    The Jungle Book is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–4. The original publications contained illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling....
  • Selma Lagerlöf
    Selma Lagerlöf

    /IPA/ was a Sweden author. She was the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and most widely known for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige ....
     - The Story of Gosta Berling
  • Sheridan Le Fanu
    Sheridan Le Fanu

    Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic Literature tales and mystery novels. He was the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and had a seminal influence on the development of this genre in the Victorian era....
     - The Watcher and Other Weird Stories
  • George A. Moore - Esther Waters
    Esther Waters

    Esther Waters is a novel by George Moore first published in 1894 in literature....
  • William Morris
    William Morris

    William Morris was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, and Socialism associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement....
     - The Wood Beyond the World
    The Wood Beyond the World

    The Wood Beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature....
  • Arthur Morrison
    Arthur Morrison

    Arthur George Morrison was an England author and journalist, known for his realistic novels about London's East End of London and for his Detective fiction....
     - Martin Hewitt: Investigator
  • John Muir
    John Muir

    John Muir was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of U.S. wilderness. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada of California, have been read by millions and are still popular today....
     - The Mountains of California
  • Gustavus W. Pope - Journey to Mars
    Journey to Mars

    Journey to Mars the Wonderful World: Its Beauty and Splendor; Its Mighty Races and Kingdoms; Its Final Doom is an 1894 in literature science fiction novel written by Gustavus W....
  • Jules Renard
    Jules Renard

    Pierre-Jules Renard or Jules Renard was a France author and member of the Acad?mie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de Carotte and Les Histoires Naturelles ....
     - Poil de Carotte (Carrot Hair)
  • Margaret Marshall Saunders
    Margaret Marshall Saunders

    Margaret Marshall Saunders Order of the British Empire was a Canadian author.Saunders was born in the village of Milton, Nova Scotia, Queens County, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia....
     - Beautiful Joe
    Beautiful Joe

    Beautiful Joe was a dog from the town of Meaford, Ontario, whose story inspired the bestselling 1893 novel Beautiful Joe, which contributed to worldwide awareness of animal cruelty....
  • Solomon Schindler
    Solomon Schindler

    Solomon Schindler was an United States rabbi. He was born at Nysa, Poland, Germany, and was educated at Wrocław. Coming to the United States in 1871, he was Minister of Wiktionary:congregation at Hoboken, New Jersey, New Jersey, and in Boston, Massachusetts until 1894....
     - Young West
    Young West

    Young West: A Sequel to Edward Bellamy's Celebrated Novel "Looking Backward" is an 1894 in literature Utopian and dystopian fiction, written by Solomon Schindler, radical rabbi of Boston....
  • Stendhal
    Stendhal

    Henri-Marie Beyle , better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century France writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme ....
     - Lucien Leuwen
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
     and Lloyd Osbourne
    Lloyd Osbourne

    Samuel Lloyd Osbourne was an American author and the step-son of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Osbourne was born in San Francisco, California to his mother Fanny Vandegrift, who would marry Stevenson in 1880 when Osbourne was 12 years old....
     - The Ebb-Tide
    The Ebb-Tide

    The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and a Quartette is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. It was published the same year Stevenson died....
  • Mark Twain
    Mark Twain

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
     - Pudd'nhead Wilson
    Pudd'nhead Wilson

    Pudd'nhead Wilson is an irony novel by Mark Twain. It was serialized in The Century Magazine , before being published as a novel in 1894....
    • Tom Sawyer Abroad
      Tom Sawyer Abroad

      Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894 in literature. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories....
  • Jules Verne
    Jules Verne

    Jules Gabriel Verne was a France author who helped pioneer the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth , From the Earth to the Moon , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , and Around the World in Eighty Days ....
     - Captain Antifer
    Captain Antifer

    Captain Antifer is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne....
  • Mary Augusta Ward - Marcella
  • Israel Zangwill
    Israel Zangwill

    Israel Zangwill was an England humourist and writer....
     - The Bachelors' Club
  • Emile Zola
    Émile Zola

    ?mile Fran?ois Zola was an influential France writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of Naturalism , an important contributor to the development of Naturalism , and a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus....
     - Lourdes


New drama

  • Henry Arthur Jones
    Henry Arthur Jones

    Henry Arthur Jones was an English dramatist....
     - The Case of Rebellious Susan
  • Maurice Maeterlinck
    Maurice Maeterlinck

    Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck was a Belgian playwright, poet and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 in literature....
     - The Death of Tintagiles


Poetry

  • Bliss Carman
    Bliss Carman

    Bliss Carman, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada was a preeminent Canada poet. He was born William Bliss Carman in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in the Maritimes of New Brunswick....
     - Low Tide on Grande Pre: A Book Of Lyrics
  • Pierre Louÿs
    Pierre Louÿs

    Pierre Lou?s was a French poet and Romantic writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who "expressed pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection."...
     - Songs of Bilitis
    Songs of Bilitis

    The Songs of Bilitis /b??li:tis/ is a collection of erotic poetry by Pierre Lou?s .The book's sensual poems are in the manner of Sappho; the introduction claims they were found on the walls of a tomb in Cyprus, written by a woman of Ancient Greece called Bilitis, a courtesan and contemporary of Sappho, to whose 'life' Lou?s dedic...
  • Rainer Maria Rilke
    Rainer Maria Rilke

    Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety ? themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets....
     - Leben und Lieder


Non-fiction

  • Edward Carpenter
    Edward Carpenter

    Edward Carpenter was an England socialism poet, anthologist, early gay activist and socialist philosopher.A leading figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain, he was instrumental in the foundation of the Fabian Society and the Labour Party ....
     - Homogenic love and its place in a free society
  • King Gillette - The Human Drift
    The Human Drift

    The Human Drift is a work of Utopian social planning, written by King Gillette and first published in 1894 in literature. The book details Gillette's plans for social and technological advancements that would replace the chaos of contemporary existence, which he termed the "human drift," with steady and predictable progress....
  • Karl Marx
    Karl Marx

    Karl Heinrich Marx was a Germanphilosophy, political economy, historian, sociologist, humanism, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism....
     - Das Kapital
    Das Kapital

    is an extensive treatise on political economy written in German language by Karl Marx and edited in part by Friedrich Engels. The book is a critical analysis of capitalism....
  • Leo Tolstoy
    Leo Tolstoy

    Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist and Education reform made him the most influential member of the aristocracy Tolstoy....
     - The Kingdom of God Is Within You
    The Kingdom of God Is Within You

    The Kingdom of God Is Within You is the non-fiction magnum opus of Leo Tolstoy and was first published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in his home country of Russia....


Births

  • March 17 - Paul Green
    Paul Green

    Paul Eliot Green was an American playwright best known for his depictions of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century....
    , novelist, Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize

    The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition....
     winning playwright (died 1981
    1981 in literature

    The year 1981 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    )
  • July 9 - Phelps Putnam
    Phelps Putnam

    Howard Phelps Putnam , sometimes known as H. Phelps Putnam or Phelps Putnam, was an list of American poets who published two books, Trinc and The Five Seasons....
    , poet (d. 1948
    1948 in literature

    The year 1948 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    )
  • July 26 - Aldous Huxley
    Aldous Huxley

    Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963....
    , poet (d. 1963
    1963 in literature

    The year 1963 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    )
  • October 14 - E. E. Cummings
    E. E. Cummings

    Edward Estlin Cummings , popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an Poetry of the United States, painter, essayist, author, and playwright....
    , American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     poet
    Poet

    A poet is a person who writes poetry....
     (d. 1962
    1962 in literature

    The year 1962 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    )
  • October 26 - Eugene Jolas
    Eugene Jolas

    Eugene Jolas was a writer, translator and literary critic....
    , writer, literary translator and critic (d. 1952
    1952 in literature

    The year 1952 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    )


Deaths

  • February 8 - R.M. Ballantyne
    Robert Michael Ballantyne

    R. M. Ballantyne was a Scottish young adult literature writer.Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printer and publishers....
    , author (born 1825
    1825 in literature

    The year 1825 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    )
  • April 8 - Bankim Chatterjee, novelist (b. 1838
    1838 in literature

    The year 1838 in literature involved some significant new books....
    )
  • July 30 - Walter Horatio Pater, author (b. 1839
    1839 in literature

    The year 1839 in literature involved some significant new books....
    )
  • October 8 - Oliver Wendell Holmes
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., was an American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer. During his lifetime, he was one of the best regarded poets of the 19th century and is considered a member of the Fireside Poets....
    , writer (b. 1809
    1809 in literature

    The year 1809 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    )
  • December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson
    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
    , author (b. 1850
    1850 in literature

    The year 1850 in literature involved some significant new books....
    )


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