Editing 1895 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1895'''.

==Events==
*January – The [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] illustrated magazine ''[[Servet-i Fünun]]'' is taken over by [[Tevfik Fikret]], who turns it into a vehicle for ''Edebiyat-ı Cedide'' ("New Literature"). These writers are committed to conservatism and [[Ottomanism]], rather than [[Turkish nationalism]], but also favor [[Westernization]]. They use a "recondite and obscure" [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman language]] within the framework of [[aestheticism]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lewis |first=Bernard |authorlink=Bernard Lewis |title=The Emergence of Modern Turkey |url=https://archive.org/details/emergenceofmoder00bern |url-access=registration |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=London etc. |year=1968 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/emergenceofmoder00bern/page/191 191–193] |oclc=959415786}}</ref>
*January–May – [[H. G. Wells]]' first "[[scientific romance]]", the [[novella]] ''[[The Time Machine]]'', is published serially in ''The New Review'' ([[London]]). The first book editions are published by the [[Henry Holt and Company]] in [[New York City|New York]] on May 7 and by [[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] in London on May 29.
[[File:Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 055.jpg|thumb|[[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Toulouse-Lautrec]]'s portrait of [[Oscar Wilde]] on the night before his trial opens<ref>{{Cite news |title=Toulouse-Lautrec portrait of Oscar Wilde resurfaces |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/10/maevkennedy|authorlink=Maev Kennedy |first=Maev |last=Kennedy |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=10 November 2000 |accessdate=2012-06-18}}</ref>]]
*[[January 3]] – The première of [[Oscar Wilde]]'s comedy ''[[An Ideal Husband]]'' takes place at the [[Haymarket Theatre]] in London.
*[[January 5]]
**The première of [[Henry James]]'s historical drama ''[[Guy Domville]]'' held at [[St James's Theatre]] in London is booed.
**[[A. E. Waite]] ceases to publish and edit his occult periodical ''The Unknown World''.
*[[January 12]] – The [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty]] is registered in England and begins acquiring properties and making them accessible to the public. [[Carlyle's House]] in Chelsea is one of the first to open.
*February – [[The Bookman (New York)|''The Bookman'' (New York)]], a monthly, is first published by [[Dodd, Mead and Company]] with [[Harry Thurston Peck]] as editor. It publishes the first [[bestseller]] list, which is headed by [[Frank R. Stockton]]'s novel ''[[The Adventures of Captain Horn]]''.
*[[February 14]] – [[Oscar Wilde]]'s last play, the comedy ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'', opens at [[St James's Theatre]], London.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{Cite book |title=Penguin Pocket On This Day |publisher=Penguin Reference Library |isbn=0-14-102715-0 |year=2006}}</ref>
*[[February 18]] – The [[John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry|Marquess of Queensberry]] (father of [[Lord Alfred Douglas]], [[Oscar Wilde]]'s lover), leaves a calling card at the [[Albemarle Club]] in London inscribed: "For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite", i. e. [[Sodomy|sodomite]], inducing Wilde to charge him with [[criminal libel]].<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last=Holland |editor-first=Merlin |year=2003 |title=The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde |publisher=Harper Collins |location=London |isbn=0-00-714436-9 |page=300}} {{Cite book |last=Holland |first=Merlin |authorlink=Merlin Holland |title=Irish Peacock & Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde |publisher=Fourth Estate |location=London |year=2003 |isbn=0-00-715418-6 |page=300}}</ref> In a meeting on March 25 at the [[Café Royal]] in London, [[Frank Harris]] and [[George Bernard Shaw]] fail to dissuade Wilde from proceeding with the action.
*[[March 4]] – [[George du Maurier]]'s play, ''[[Trilby (play)|Trilby]]'', based on his [[Trilby (novel)|novel of the same name]], serialised in [[1894 in literature|1894]] and first published in book form in 1895, opens at the [[Boston Museum (theatre)|Boston Museum]] in the United States, with a New York première on April 15 at the [[Garden Theatre]]. [[Wilton Lackaye]] plays [[Svengali]] and [[Virginia Harned]] the title rôle. 
*April/May – ''[[Pan (magazine)|Pan]]'', a German arts and literary magazine, is first published, in Berlin.
*[[April 3]]–[[April 5|5]] – Queensberry is acquitted in the libel case of ''Wilde v Queensberry'' at the [[Old Bailey]] in London.<ref>{{Old Bailey|id=t18950325-336|defendant=JOHN SHOLTO DOUGLAS|trialdate=25 March 1895}}</ref> Evidence of [[Oscar Wilde|Wilde]]'s [[homosexual]] relationships with young men renders him liable to criminal prosecution under the [[Labouchere Amendment]], while the [[Libel Act 1843]] renders him legally liable for the considerable expenses Queensberry has incurred in his defence, leaving Wilde penniless.
*[[April 6]] – Oscar Wilde is arrested at the [[Cadogan Hotel]], London, in the company of [[Robbie Ross]], for "unlawfully committing acts of gross indecency with certain male persons". He is detained on [[Remand (detention)|remand]] in [[Holloway Prison]].
*[[April 29]] – [[Joseph Conrad]]'s novel ''[[Almayer's Folly]]'' is published in London by [[T. Fisher Unwin]], as Conrad's first published work, after retirement from his [[Joseph Conrad's career at sea|career at sea]]. It marks the first appearance of his pseudonym.
*[[May 23]] – Representatives of the [[Astor Library]] and [[Lenox Library (New York City)|Lenox Library]], with the backing of [[Samuel J. Tilden]], agree to merge and form the [[New York Public Library]].
*[[May 25]]
**After a retrial of the criminal case of ''Regina v. Wilde'' at the [[Old Bailey]], [[Oscar Wilde]] is convicted of gross indecency and taken to [[Pentonville (HM Prison)|Pentonville Prison]] to begin a two-year sentence of [[hard labour]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18950520-425 |title=Oscar Fingal O'Fflahartie Wills Wilde, Alfred Waterhouse Somerset Taylor, Sexual Offences... 20th May 1895 |work=The Proceedings of the Old Bailey |date=April 2013 |accessdate=2014-11-24}}</ref> In June he requests to read in his cell [[Walter Pater|Pater]]'s ''The Renaissance'', [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustine]]'s ''[[Confessions (Augustine)|Confessions]]'' and works by [[Baudelaire]] and [[John Henry Newman|Newman]]. On November 21 he is transferred to [[Reading Gaol]].
**[[Henry Irving]] becomes the first English actor to be [[knight]]ed as such.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Moira |last=Lister |authorlink=Moira Shearer |title=Ellen Terry |location=Stroud |publisher=Sutton Publishing |year=1998 |isbn=0-7509-1526-9 |page=99}}</ref>
*[[June 21]] – [[William Poel]]'s newly formed [[Elizabethan Stage Society]], created to promote productions of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the assumed style of the [[English Renaissance theatre]], gives its first performance, at Burlington Hall.<ref>{{cite book|author=Stanley Wells|title=Shakespeare Survey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WyFH_Aj9fnkC&pg=PA17|date=16 October 2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-54185-5|pages=17}}</ref>
*[[September 7]] – The stage version of ''Trilby'' (see March 4) has its UK première at the [[Theatre Royal, Manchester]], with a London première on October 30 at the Haymarket Theatre), with [[Herbert Beerbohm Tree]] and [[Dorothea Baird]]. The play is so successful that Tree can use the profits to build [[Her Majesty's Theatre]]. It also popularises the [[trilby]] hat.
*October
**''[[The American Historical Review]]'' appears for the first time.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/journal/amerhistrevi& JSTOR: All issues of The American Historical Review.]</ref>
**[[Stephen Crane]]'s [[American Civil War]] novel ''[[The Red Badge of Courage]]'' is first published in an abridged book format by [[D. Appleton & Company]] in New York.
**[[Rudyard Kipling]] publishes the story "[[Mowgli]] Leaves the Jungle Forever" in ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|The Cosmopolitan]]'' illustrated magazine in the United States, concluding the series collected in ''[[The Second Jungle Book]]'', published in England in November.
*[[November 1]] – [[Thomas Hardy]]'s last completed novel, ''[[Jude the Obscure]]'' is published by Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co. in London, dated 1896, on completion of an [[Expurgation|expurgated]] serialization under the title ''Hearts Insurgent'' in ''[[Harper's Magazine]]''. It is strongly criticized on moral grounds. Hardy later claims that [[Walsham How]], [[Bishop of Wakefield (diocese)|Bishop of Wakefield]], [[book burning|burned]] a copy.<ref>Slack, Robert C. ''[[Nineteenth-Century Fiction]]'' 11 (4, March 1957) pp. 261–275.</ref>
*c. December – Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, the future [[Joseph Stalin]], publishes [[Stalin's poetry|his romantic poems]] in the newspaper ''Iveria'', receiving accolades from a senior writer, [[Ilia Chavchavadze]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Montefiore |first=Simon Sebag |authorlink=Simon Sebag Montefiore |title=Young Stalin |publisher=Phoenix |location=London |year=2007 |pages=56–59, 187 |isbn=978-1-4072-2145-8}}</ref>
*[[December 19]] – [[Robert Frost]] marries Elinor Miriam White at [[Lawrence, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Manorama Bala Trikha|title=Robert Frost, Poetry of Clarifications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R9hlAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Arnold-Heinemann|isbn=978-0-391-02751-0|pages=16–17}}</ref>
*''unknown dates''
**Abdallah bin Hemedi bin Ali Ajjemy's ''Habari za Wakilindi'' is the first novel to be published in the [[Swahili language]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective |volume=1 |editor=Pettersson, Anders |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2muIgoqGR1kC&q=%22first+Swahili+novel%22&pg=PA231 |page=231 |isbn=9783110189322 |year=2006}}</ref>
**[[Castello Holford]]'s [[Utopian and dystopian fiction|utopian novel]] ''[[Aristopia|Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World]]'', appears in Boston as the first full-length [[alternate history]] in English.
**[[Ernest Thayer]] recites ''[[Casey at the Bat]]'' at a [[Harvard University|Harvard]] class reunion, appearing to resolve a mystery about the poem's authorship.
**The first edition of the ''[[Times Atlas of the World]]'' is published at the office of ''[[The Times]]'' newspaper in London.
**[[Hall Caine]] travels in the United States and Canada, representing the U.K. [[Society of Authors]]. He obtains international copyright concessions from the Dominion Parliament.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Warner |first1=Charles Dudley |title=A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol. VII |date=1896 |publisher=The International Society |location=New York |pages=3067–8}}</ref>

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Grant Allen]]
**''The British Barbarians''
**''[[The Woman Who Did]]''
*[[John Kendrick Bangs]] – ''[[A House-Boat on the Styx]]''
*[[Mary Elizabeth Braddon]] – ''Sons of Fire''
*[[Rhoda Broughton]] – ''Scylla or Charybdis?''
*[[Robert W. Chambers]] – ''[[The King in Yellow]]''
*[[Anton Chekhov]] –  "[[Three Years]]"
*[[Joseph Conrad]] – ''[[Almayer's Folly]]''
*[[Marie Corelli]] – ''[[The Sorrows of Satan]]''
*[[Stephen Crane]] – ''[[The Red Badge of Courage]]''
*[[Victoria Crosse]] – ''The Woman Who Didn't''
*[[Grazia Deledda]] – ''Anime oneste'' (Honest soul)
*[[Ménie Muriel Dowie]] – ''[[Gallia (novel)|Gallia]]''
*[[Alice Dunbar Nelson|Alice Dunbar]] – ''Violets and Other Tales'' (short stories and poetry)
*[[Isabelle Eberhardt]] as Nicolas Podolinsky – "Infernalia" (short story)
*[[J. Meade Falkner]] – ''[[The Lost Stradivarius]]''
*[[Antonio Fogazzaro]] – ''[[The Little World of the Past]] (Piccolo mondo antico)''
*[[Ludwig Ganghofer]] – ''[[Hubertus Castle (novel)|Hubertus Castle]]''
*[[Hamlin Garland]] – ''Rose of Dutcher's Coolly''
*[[George Gissing]]
**''[[Eve's Ransom]]''
**''[[The Paying Guest]]''
**''[[Sleeping Fires]]''
*[[Thomas Hardy]] – ''[[Jude the Obscure]]''
*[[Robert Hichens (writer)|Robert Hichens]] – ''[[An Imaginative Man]]''
*[[Castello Holford]] – ''[[Aristopia]]''
*[[William Wilson Hunter]] – ''The Old Missionary'' (book publication)
*[[Joris-Karl Huysmans]] – ''[[En route (novel)|En Route]]''
*[[Henry James]] – ''Terminations'' (collection)
*[[Olha Kobylianska]] – ''Tsarivna'' (Princess)
*[[John Uri Lloyd]] – ''[[Etidorhpa|Etidorhpa, or, the end of the earth: the strange history of a mysterious being and the account of a remarkable journey]]''
*[[George MacDonald]] – ''[[Lilith (novel)|Lilith]]''
*[[Ian Maclaren]] – ''The Days of Auld Lang Syne''<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=Sutherland|authorlink=John Sutherland (author)|title=Bestsellers: a very short introduction|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-19-921489-1|page=85}}</ref>
*[[George Meredith]] – ''The Amazing Marriage''
*[[Dmitry Merezhkovsky]] – ''[[The Death of the Gods]]''
*[[Kálmán Mikszáth]] – ''[[St. Peter's Umbrella (novel)|St. Peter's Umbrella]] (Szent Péter esernyője)''
*[[Arthur Morrison]] – ''Chronicles of Martin Hewitt''
*[[Henrik Pontoppidan]] – ''Det forjættede Land'' (The Promised Land; publication concludes)
*Gustavus W. Pope – ''[[Journey to Venus]]''
*[[Bolesław Prus]] – ''[[Pharaoh (Prus novel)|Pharaoh]]'' (''Faraon''; serialization begins)
*[[Emilio Salgari]] – ''I misteri della 8jungla nera''
*[[Henryk Sienkiewicz]] – ''[[Quo Vadis (novel)|Quo Vadis]]''
*[[Leo Tolstoy]] – ''[[Master and Man (short story)|Master and Man]] (Хозяин и работник)''
*[[Jules Verne]] – ''[[Propeller Island]] (L'Île à hélice)''
*[[H. G. Wells]] – ''[[The Time Machine]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[Lewis Carroll]] – ''[[Sylvie and Bruno]]''
*[[G. E. Farrow]] – ''[[The Wallypug of Why]]''
*[[Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler]] – ''The Young Pretenders'' (reissued 2007)
*[[Rudyard Kipling]]
**''[[The Brushwood Boy]]''
**''[[The Second Jungle Book]]''
*[[L. T. Meade]] – ''A Princess of the Gutter''
*[[Mary Louisa Molesworth]] (Mrs. Molesworth) – ''[[The Carved Lions]]''
*[[Emilio Salgari]] – ''I Misteri della Jungla Nera ([[The Mystery of the Black Jungle]]'' – first in the Sandokan series of eleven books)
*[[Florence Kate Upton]] – ''The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a [[Golliwog]]g''
*[[Alice Zimmern]] – ''Greek History for Young Readers''

===Drama===
*[[Tristan Bernard]] – ''Les Pieds nickelés''
*[[Hall Caine]] with [[Louis N. Parker]] – ''[[The Manxman (novel)#Adaptations|The Manxman]]'' (as ''Pete'')
*[[Joaquín Dicenta]] – ''[[Juan José (play)|Juan José]]''
*[[José Echegaray]] – ''El estigma''
*[[Hulda Garborg]] – ''Mødre''
*[[Alfred Jarry]] – ''[[Caesar Antichrist]]''
*[[Maurice Maeterlinck]] – ''[[Interior (play)|Interior]]'' (''Intérieur'', verse play for [[marionette]]s, first production)
*[[Jules Renard]] – ''La Demande''
*[[Arthur Schnitzler]] – ''[[:de:Liebelei|Liebelei]]''
*[[Tsubouchi Shōyō]] (坪内 逍遥) – ''Kiri Hitoha'' (A Paulownia Leaf, writing complete)
*[[Frank Wedekind]] – ''[[Earth Spirit (play)|Earth Spirit]]''
*[[Oscar Wilde]] – ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]''

===Poetry===
*[[Pauline Johnson]] – ''The White Wampum''
*[[Giovanni Marradi]] – ''Ballati moderne''
*[[Banjo Paterson]] – ''[[The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses]]''
*''See also'' [[1895 in poetry]]

===Non-fiction===
*[[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton|Lord Acton]] – ''A Lecture on the Study of History''
*[[Josef Breuer]] and [[Sigmund Freud]] – ''[[Studies on Hysteria]] (Studien über Hysterie)''
*[[Francis Darwin]] – ''The Elements of Botany''
*[[Annetta Seabury Dresser]] – ''The Philosophy of P. P. Quimby''
*[[Gustave Le Bon]] – ''[[The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind|Psychologie des foules]]'' (Psychology of Crowds)
*[[Friedrich Nietzsche]] – ''[[The Antichrist (book)|Der Antichrist]]'' (written [[1888 in literature|1888]])

==Births==
*[[January 24]] – [[Eugen Roth]], German poet and lyricist (died [[1976 in literature|1976]])
*[[February 14]] – [[Max Horkheimer]], German philosopher (died [[1973 in literature|1973]])
*[[February 28]] – [[Marcel Pagnol]], French novelist (died [[1974 in literature|1974]])
*[[March 29]] – [[Ernst Jünger]], German novelist (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])
*[[April 15]] – [[Corrado Alvaro]], Italian novelist and journalist (died [[1998 in literature|1968]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Gaetana Marrone|author2=Paolo Puppa|title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d9NcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA29|date=26 December 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-45530-9|pages=29}}</ref>
*[[April 17]] – [[Ion Vinea]], Romanian poet and novelist (died [[1964 in literature|1964]])
*[[April 20]] – [[Henry de Montherlant]], French novelist and dramatist (suicide [[1972 in literature|1972]])
*[[April 23]] – [[Ngaio Marsh]], New Zealand detective fiction writer and theatre director (died [[1982 in literature|1982]])
*[[May 3]] – [[Ernst Kantorowicz]], German historian (died [[1963 in literature|1963]])
*[[May 8]] – [[Edmund Wilson]], American literary critic (died [[1972 in literature|1972]])
*[[May 9]] – [[Lucian Blaga]], Romanian poet and philosopher (died [[1961 in literature|1961]])
*[[May 11]] – [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]], Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Christine V.|year=2004|title=Jiddu Krishnamurti: world philosopher (1895–1986): his life and thoughts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NzDar6XfICEC|location=[[Delhi]]|publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]]|isbn=978-81-208-2032-6|access-date=3 October 2011}}</ref>
*[[May 19]] – [[Charles Sorley]], Scottish-born poet (killed in action [[1915 in literature|1915]])
*[[May 24]] – [[Marcel Janco]], Romanian–Israeli artist, art theorist, essayist and poet (died [[1984 in literature|1984]])
*[[June 16]] – [[Warren Lewis]], Irish-born historian (died [[1973 in literature|1973]])
*[[June 27]] – [[Anna Banti]], Italian art historian, critic, and translator (died [[1985 in literature|1985]])
*[[June 29]] – [[Alice Lardé de Venturino]], Salvadoran poet and writer (died [[1983 in literature|1983]])<ref>{{cite web|last1=Vargas Méndez|first1=Jorge|title=Alice Lardé de Venturino: Del Amor por la Poesía a la Ciencia|url=http://www.libros.com.sv/edicion16/alice.html|website=Salvadoran Libros|access-date=19 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302091353/http://www.libros.com.sv/edicion16/alice.html|archive-date=2 March 2008|location=San Salvador, El Salvador|language=Spanish|date=2003|trans-title=Alice Lardé de Venturino: From love of poetry to science}}</ref>
*[[July 14]] – [[F. R. Leavis]], English literary critic (died [[1978 in literature|1978]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Bell|title=F.R. Leavis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w20WDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA3|date=29 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-95195-6|pages=3}}</ref>
*[[July 24]] – [[Robert Graves]], English poet and novelist (died [[1985 in literature|1985]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alan Bold|author2=Allen Freer|title=Cambridge Book of English Verse 1939-1975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sko7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA35|date=4 March 1976|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-09840-3|pages=35}}</ref>
*[[August 19]] – [[Arnolt Bronnen]], Austrian playwright and director (died [[1959 in literature|1959]])
*[[September 2]] – [[D. I. Suchianu]], Romanian essayist, translator, social scientist and film theorist (died [[1985 in literature|1985]])
*[[September 7]] – [[Jacques Vaché]], French writer and magazine editor (died [[1919 in literature|1919]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Franklin Rosemont|title=Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism: Including Vaché's War Letters & Other Writings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O9saAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Charles H. Kerr|isbn=978-0-88286-322-1|page=11}}</ref>
*[[September 16]] – [[Zainal Abidin Ahmad (writer)|Zainal Abidin Ahmad]], Malayan nationalist writer (died [[1973 in literature|1973]])
*[[September 21]] – [[Sergei Yesenin]], Russian poet (died [[1925 in literature|1925]])
*[[October 3]] – [[Giovanni Comisso]], Italian writer (died [[1969 in literature|1969]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Gaetana Marrone|author2=Paolo Puppa|title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d9NcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA496|date=26 December 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-45530-9|pages=496}}</ref>
*[[October 6]] – [[Caroline Gordon]], American novelist and critic (died [[1981 in literature|1981]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William Joseph Stuckey|title=Caroline Gordon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NbmwAAAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Twayne Publishers|page=9}}</ref>
*[[October 17]] – [[C. H. B. Kitchin]], English novelist (died [[1967 in literature|1967]])
*[[October 20]] – [[Alexandru Rosetti]], Romanian linguist, editor and memoirist (died [[1990 in literature|1990]])
*[[October 31]] – [[B. H. Liddell Hart]], English military historian (died [[1970 in literature|1970]])
*[[November 1]] – [[David Jones (artist-poet)|David Jones]], Anglo-Welsh poet and artist (died [[1974 in literature|1974]])
*[[November 16]] – [[Michael Arlen]], Armenian novelist and short story writer (died [[1956 in literature|1956]])
*[[December 1]] – [[Henry Williamson]], English novelist (died [[1977 in literature|1977]])
*[[December 9]] – [[Vivian de Sola Pinto]], English poet, literary critic, and historian (died [[1969 in literature|1969]])
*[[December 14]] – [[Paul Éluard]], French poet (died [[1952 in literature|1952]])
*[[December 24]] – [[Noel Streatfeild]], English novelist and children's writer (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])
*[[December 28]] – [[Carol Ryrie Brink]], American novelist and children's author (died [[1981 in literature|1981]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Reginald|title=Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2|location=Detroit|publisher=Gale Research|year=1979|page=831|isbn=978-0-81031-051-3}}</ref>
*''Unknown date'' – [[Ionel Gherea]], Romanian philosopher, essayist and novelist (died [[1978 in literature|1978]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 3]] – [[Mary Torrans Lathrap]], American author and reformer (born [[1838 in literature|1838]])
*[[January 13]] – [[John Robert Seeley]], English historian and essayist (born [[1834 in literature|1834]])
*[[January 15]] – [[Lady Charlotte Guest]], English translator of Welsh literature (born [[1812 in literature|1812]])
*[[February 16]] – [[Camilla Dufour Crosland]], English writer and poet (born [[1812 in literature|1812]])
*[[February 19]] – [[Auguste Vacquerie]], French journalist (born [[1819 in literature|1819]])
*[[February 20]] – [[Frederick Douglass]], African-American abolitionist, orator and writer (born [[1818 in literature|1818]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Rochester (N.Y.). Council|title=Proceedings ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mrdEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA597|year=1895|pages=597}}</ref>
*[[March 5]] – [[Nikolai Leskov]], Russian journalist, novelist and short story writer (born [[1831 in literature|1831]])
*[[March 15]] – [[Cesare Cantù]], Italian historian (born [[1804 in literature|1804]])
*[[March 22]] – [[Henry Coppée]], American historian and biographer (born [[1821 in literature|1821]])
*[[April 3]] – [[Gustav Freytag]], German novelist and dramatist (born [[1816 in literature|1816]])
*[[April 17]] – [[Jorge Isaacs]], Colombian writer, politician and explorer (born [[1837 in literature|1837]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Twayne's World Authors Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8A3AAAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Twayne Publishers|page=31}}</ref>
*[[April 25]] – [[Emily Thornton Charles]], American newspaper founder (born [[1845 in literature|1845]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Death of Emily Thornton Charles. Logansport Reporter. Logansport, Indiana. April 29, 1895, p 6|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14168474/death_of_emily_thornton_charles/|access-date=4 October 2017|work=Logansport Reporter|date=29 April 1895|pages=6|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{open access}}</ref>
*[[April 26]] – [[Eric Stenbock]], German poet (born [[1858 in literature|1858]])
*[[May 4]] – [[Lillian Spender]] (née Headland), English novelist (born [[1835 in literature|1835]])
*[[May 26]] – [[Ahmet Cevdet Pasha]], Ottoman historian and legal writer (born [[1822 in literature|1822]])
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Sophie Adlersparre]], Swedish feminist and magazine editor (born [[1823 in literature|1823]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=5564|author=Sigrid Leijonhufvud|title=K Sophie Adlersparre (f. Leijonhuvud)|website=Svenskt biografiskt lexikon|access-date=2015-06-16}}</ref>
*[[August 1]] – [[Heinrich von Sybel]], German historian (born [[1817 in literature|1817]])
*[[August 5]] – [[Friedrich Engels]], German socialist writer (born [[1820 in literature|1820]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Radical Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I7UkAQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Radical Philosophy Group|page=51}}</ref>
*[[September 29]] – [[William Grainge]], English local historian (born [[1818 in literature|1818]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Yorkshire Notes and Queries: Being the Antiquarian History of Yorkshire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qbBgD8Ee6lsC|year=1908|page=42}}</ref>
*[[October 14]] – [[Clara Doty Bates]], American author (born [[1838 in literature|1838]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Christian Work: Illustrated Family Newspaper|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zXZPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA652|year=1895|pages=652}}</ref>
*[[November 4]] – [[Eugene Field]], American children's author (born [[1850 in literature|1850]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Providence Public Library (R.I.)|title=Monthly Bulletin for the Providence Public Library ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wNc9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA226|year=1895|publisher=Library|pages=226}}</ref>
*[[November 27]] – [[Alexandre Dumas, fils]], French novelist and dramatist (born [[1824 in literature|1824]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Masterplots: Cyclopedia of world authors; seven hundred fifty three novelists, poets, playwrights from the world's fine literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zu7XAAAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Salem Press|page=321}}</ref>
*[[November 28]] – [[L. S. Bevington]], English anarchist poet and essayist (born [[1845 in literature|1845]])

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