1898 in literature

1898 in literature

The year 1898 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

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New books

*Elizabeth von Arnim - "Elizabeth and Her German Garden"
*F. W. Bain - "A Digit of the Moon"
*Arnold Bennett - "A Man from the North"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "Rough Justice"
*Frank T. Bullen - "The Cruise of the Cachalot"
*Ralph Connor - "Black Rock"
*Joseph Conrad - "Tales of Unrest"
*Stephen Crane - "The Open Boat and Other Tales"
*Paul Laurence Dunbar - "The Uncalled"
*J. Meade Falkner - "Moonfleet"
*John Fox, Jr. - "The Kentuckians"
*Kenneth Grahame - "Dream Days"
*Anthony Hope - "Rupert of Hentzau"
*Joris-Karl Huysmans - "La Cathedrale"
*Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - "The Cabin"
*Henry James - "The Turn of the Screw"
*Jerome K. Jerome - "The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow"
*Pierre Louÿs - "La Femme et le pantin"
*Charles Major - "When Knighthood Was in Flower"
*George Moore -"Evelyn Innes"
*Emilio Salgari - "The Black Corsair"
*Jules Verne - "The Mighty Orinoco"
*Mary Augusta Ward - "Helbeck of Bannisdale"
*H.G. Wells - "The War of the Worlds"
*Edward Noyes Westcott - "David Harum"
*Owen Wister - "Lin McLean"
*Charlotte Mary Yonge - "The Armourer's Prentices"
*Emile Zola - "Paris"

New drama

*Gabriele D'Annunzio - "Sogno di un Pomeriggio d' Autunno"
*George Bernard Shaw - "Arms and the Man"

Non-fiction

*John F. T. Jane - "Jane's Fighting Ships"
*Liliʻuokalani - "Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen"

Births

*February 6 - Melvin B. Tolson, poet
*May 23 - Scott O'Dell, children's author
*July 22 - Erich Maria Remarque (d. 1970)
*August 23 - George Papashvily, sculptor and author
*September 13 - Arthur J. Burks (d. 1974)
*November 29 - C. S. Lewis (d. 1963)
*December 27 - W. C. Sellar, co-author of "1066 and All That"

Deaths

*January 14 - Lewis Carroll, children's author
*January 18 - Henry Liddell, co-compiler of Liddell & Scott's "Greek-English Lexicon", still in use by classical scholars
*March 6 - Felice Cavallotti, politician and poet
*March 24 - George Thomas Stokes, church historian
*March 31 - Eleanor Marx, political writer and translator, daughter of Karl Marx
*May 22 - Edward Bellamy, novelist
*July 20 - Jean Ingelow, poet and novelist
*August 7 - Georg Ebers, novelist and discoverer of the "Ebers manuscript"
*August 17 - Sir William Fraser, 4th Baronet, politician, author and book collector
*September 9 - Stéphane Mallarmé, Symbolist poet
*September 20 - Theodor Fontane, novelist and poet
*September 29 - William Kingsford, historian
*December 10 - William Black, novelist

Awards

*Newdigate prize - John Buchan


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