1894 in literature - Definition

See also: 1893 in literature, other events of 1894, 1895 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New books

• The Bachelors' Club - Israel Zangwill
• Bayou Folk - Kate Chopin
• The Christmas Hirelings - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Damnation of Theron Ware - Harold Frederic
• The Ebb Tide - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Esther Waters - George A. Moore
• In the Year of Jubilee - George Gissing
• The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
• Lourdes - Emile Zola
• Lucien Leuwen - Stendhal
• The Manxman - Hall Caine
• Marcella - Mary Augusta Ward
• - Arthur Morrison
• The Mountains of California - John Muir
• Pembroke - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• The People of the Mist - H. Rider Haggard
• Perlycross - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
• The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
• Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain
• The Story of Gosta Berling - Selma Lagerlof
• Svengali's Web - George du Maurier
• Tom Sawyer Abroad - Mark Twain
• Trilby - George du Maurier
• The Triumph of Death - Gabriele D'Annunzio
• The Watcher and Other Weird Stories - Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Wood Beyond the World - William Morris

Births

• March 17 - Paul Green, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (+ 1981)
• 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