1894 in literature

1894 in literature

The year 1894 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Robert Frost sells his first poem, "My Butterfly", to "The New York Independent" for fifteen dollars.
*Hermann Hesse begins his apprenticeship at a factory in Calw.
*Lafcadio Hearn begins working as a journalist for the English-language "Kobe Chronicle".
*Claude Debussy writes his "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune", a free interpretation of Stέphane Mallarmé's 1876 poem, "L'après-midi d'un faune".
*Mary Antin emigrates from Belarus to the USA with her family.

New books

*Gabriele D'Annunzio - "The Triumph of Death"
*Richard Doddridge Blackmore -"Perlycross"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "The Christmas Hirelings"
*Hall Caine
**"The Manxman"
**""
*Kate Chopin - "Bayou Folk"
*Ella Hepworth Dixon - "The Story of a Modern Woman"
*Arthur Conan Doyle - "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
*George du Maurier
**"Svengali's Web"
**"Trilby"
*Theodor Fontane - "Effi Briest"
*Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - "Pembroke"
*George Gissing - "In the Year of Jubilee"
*H. Rider Haggard - "The People of the Mist"
*Knut Hamsun - "Pan"
*Anthony Hope - "The Prisoner of Zenda"
*William Dean Howells - "A Traveler from Altruria"
*Jerome K. Jerome - "John Ingerfield: And Other Stories"
*Rudyard Kipling - "The Jungle Book"
*Selma Lagerlöf - "The Story of Gosta Berling"
*Sheridan Le Fanu - "The Watcher and Other Weird Stories"
*George A. Moore - "Esther Waters"
*William Morris - "The Wood Beyond the World"
*Arthur Morrison - ""
*John Muir - "The Mountains of California"
*Jules Renard - "Poil de Carotte (Carrot Hair)"
*Margaret Marshall Saunders - "Beautiful Joe"
*Stendhal - "Lucien Leuwen"
*Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne - "The Ebb-Tide"
*Mark Twain
**"Pudd'nhead Wilson"
**"Tom Sawyer Abroad"
*Jules Verne - "Captain Antifer"
*Mary Augusta Ward - "Marcella"
*Israel Zangwill - "The Bachelors' Club"
*Emile Zola - "Lourdes"

New drama

*Henry Arthur Jones - "The Case of Rebellious Susan"

Poetry

*Bliss Carman - "Low Tide on Grande Pre: A Book Of Lyrics"
*Pierre Louÿs - "Songs of Bilitis"
*Rainer Maria Rilke - "Leben und Lieder"

Non-fiction

*Edward Carpenter - "Homogenic love and its place in a free society"
*Karl Marx - "Das Kapital"
*Leo Tolstoy - "The Kingdom of God Is Within You"

Births

*March 17 - Paul Green, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (+ 1981)
*July 9 - Phelps Putnam, poet
*July 26 - Aldous Huxley, poet (+ 1963)
*October 14 - E. E. Cummings, American poet
*October 26 - Eugene Jolas, writer, literary translator and critic (d. 1952)

Deaths

* February 8 - RM Ballantyne, author
* April 8 - Bankim Chatterjee, novelist
* July 30 - Walter Horatio Pater, author
* October 8 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, writer
* December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson, author

Awards

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