1893 in literature - Definition

See also: 1892 in literature, other events of 1893, 1894 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• A Beginner - Rhoda Broughton
• At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque - Anatole France
• Barabbas - Marie Corelli
• Cap'n Davey's Honeymoon - Hall Caine
• The Castle of the Carpathians - Jules Verne
• Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Diana Tempest - Mary Cholmondeley
• The Heavenly Twins - Sarah Grand
• Jane Field - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• Le Docteur Pascal - Emile Zola
• - Stephen Crane
• The Odd Women - George Gissing
• The Prince of India - Lew Wallace
• A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde (play)
• Why Constantinople Fell - Lew Wallace

Births

• January - Maria Jolas, literary publisher (d. 1987)
• June 13 - Dorothy L. Sayers, author (+ 1957)

Deaths

• April 19 - John Addington Symonds, poet and essayist

Awards