Editing 1898 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1898'''.

==Events==
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*[[January 13]] – [[Émile Zola]]'s [[open letter]] to [[Félix Faure]], [[List of Presidents of France|President of France]], on the [[Dreyfus affair]], ''[[J'Accuse…!]]'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper ''[[L'Aurore]]''. On February 23, Zola is convicted of [[criminal libel]] in connection with ''J'Accuse…!''. Following dismissal of his appeal he flees to London (arriving on July 19) to escape imprisonment. In August he begins writing his novel ''Fécondité'' in the suburbs.
*[[February 5]]–[[June 18]] – [[M. P. Shiel]]'s "[[Yellow Peril]]" novel ''The Empress of the Earth'', written around contemporary events in China, appears in the [[Pearson PLC|Pearson]] weekly ''Short Stories'' (London) and in book form in July as ''The Yellow Danger''; it is frequently reprinted.
*[[February 25]] – Première of [[Frank Wedekind]]'s ''[[Earth Spirit (play)|Earth Spirit]]'' (''Erdgeist''), first of his [[Lulu plays]], in [[Leipzig]], in a production by Carl Heine, with Wedekind himself in the role of Dr. Schön.
*[[March 25]] – [[O. Henry]] is imprisoned in [[Ohio Penitentiary]], [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]], for [[embezzlement]].
*[[May 28]] – [[Max Beerbohm]] succeeds [[George Bernard Shaw]] as theater critic of [[Saturday Review (London)|''The Saturday Review'' (London)]];<ref>{{Cite book |first=Oscar |last=Levant |title=[[The Unimportance of Being Oscar]] |publisher=Pocket Books |year=1969 |orig-year=1968 |page=49 |isbn=0-671-77104-3}}</ref> Shaw introduces him as "The Incomparable Max".
*June – First appearance of [[E. W. Hornung]]'s fictional [[gentleman thief]] [[A. J. Raffles]] in the story "The Ides of March" in ''[[Cassell's Magazine]]'' (London).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.strandmag.com/htm/strandmag_raffles.htm |title=Raffles: The Gentleman Thief |first=Richard |last=Bleiler |work=[[Strand Magazine]] |access-date=2014-07-25 |archive-date=2014-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228142406/http://www.strandmag.com/htm/strandmag_raffles.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[December 2]] – [[Moscow Art Theatre]]'s first season opens with a double bill of Emilia Matthai's ''Greta's Happiness'' and [[Carlo Goldoni]]'s ''[[The Mistress of the Inn]]''. The successful and influential [[Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull|Moscow Art Theatre production of ''The Seagull'']] by [[Chekhov]] (its Moscow première), would open on {{OldStyleDate|29 December|1898|17 December}}.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Benedetti |first=Jean |year=1999 |title=Stanislavski: His Life and Art |edition=Revised |location=London |publisher=Methuen |isbn=0-413-52520-1}}</ref>
*''unknown dates''
**[[Peadar Ua Laoghaire]]'s story {{lang|ga|[[oldwikisource:Séadna|Séadna]]}} begins serialisation in Ireland as the first [[Irish language]] novel (published in book form [[1904 in literature|1904]]).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Welch |first=Robert |title=Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-280080-9 |year=1996}}</ref>
**[[Gerald Duckworth]] establishes the publishers [[Gerald Duckworth and Company]] in London. [[Henry James]]'s [[novella]] ''[[In the Cage]]'' is among their first year's output.
**English designer [[C. R. Ashbee]] begins book production at the Essex House Press.<ref>{{cite book|author=Oscar Lovell Triggs|title=The Arts & Crafts Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j8mjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA190|date=10 May 2014|publisher=Parkstone International|isbn=978-1-78310-383-6|pages=190}}</ref>
**[[Joseph Wright (linguist)|Joseph Wright]]'s ''[[English Dialect Dictionary]]'' begins publication.
**The "[[Generation of '98]]" writers and thinkers are active in Spain.
**The term "[[Young Poland]]" is coined after a [[manifesto]] by Artur Górski, published in the [[Kraków]] newspaper ''[[Życie]]'' ("Life"), to signify the period of [[modernism]] in the Polish arts.<ref>{{cite book|author=Piotr S. Wandycz|title=The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9dUHCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA372|date=1 February 1975|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-80361-6|pages=372}}</ref>
**[[Guild of Women-Binders]] established in London.

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[:eu:Txomin Agirre|Txomin Agirre]] – ''Aunamendiko Lorea''
*[[Nephi Anderson]] – ''Added Upon''
*[[Leonid Andreyev]] – "Bargamot and Garaska" (Баргамот и Гараська, short story)
*[[Elizabeth von Arnim]] – ''[[Elizabeth and Her German Garden]]''
*[[F. W. Bain]] – ''A Digit of the Moon''
*[[L. Frank Baum]] – ''[[By the Candelabra's Glare]]''
*[[Arnold Bennett]] – ''A Man from the North''
*[[Vicente Blasco Ibáñez]] – ''[[The Shack (Blasco Ibáñez novel)|The Shack]] (La barraca)''
*[[Mary Elizabeth Braddon]] – ''Rough Justice''
*[[Anton Chekhov]] – "[[About Love (short story)]]", "[[Gooseberries (short story)]]"
*[[N. D. Cocea]] – ''Poet-Poetă''
*[[Ralph Connor]] – ''Black Rock''
*[[Joseph Conrad]] – ''[[Tales of Unrest]]''
*[[Alexander Craig (novelist)|Alexander Craig]] – ''[[Ionia (novel)|Ionia]]''
*[[Stephen Crane]]
**''[[The Monster (novella)|The Monster and Other Stories]]''
**''[[The Open Boat and Other Tales]]''
*[[Stephanus Jacobus du Toit]] – ''Die Koningin van Skeba''
*[[Paul Laurence Dunbar]]
**''Folks From Dixie'' (short stories)
**''The Uncalled''
*[[Finley Peter Dunne]] – ''[[Mr. Dooley]] in Peace and in War''
*[[Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler]] – ''Concerning Isabel Carnaby''
*[[John Fox, Jr.]] – ''[[The Kentuckians]]''
*[[Ángel Ganivet]] – ''Los trabajos del infatigable creador Pío Cid''
*[[Maurice Hewlett]] – ''Forest Lovers''<ref>{{Cite book |first=Q. D. |last=Leavis |author-link=Q. D. Leavis |title=Fiction and the Reading Public |edition=rev. |location=London |publisher=Chatto & Windus |year=1965}}</ref>
*[[Anthony Hope]] – ''[[Rupert of Hentzau]]''
*[[Joris-Karl Huysmans]] – ''[[The Cathedral (Huysmans novel)|La Cathédrale]]''
*[[Henry James]] – ''[[The Turn of the Screw]]'' (novella in ''The Two Magics'')
*[[Olha Kobylianska]] – ''Valse melancolique''
*[[Jerome K. Jerome]] – ''The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow''
*[[John Luther Long]] – "[[Madame Butterfly (short story)|Madame Butterfly]]"
*[[Pierre Louÿs]] – ''[[The Woman and the Puppet]] (La Femme et le pantin)''
*[[Charles Major (writer)|Charles Major]] – ''[[When Knighthood Was in Flower (novel)|When Knighthood Was in Flower]]''
*[[George Moore (novelist)|George Moore]] – ''Evelyn Innes''
*[[E. Phillips Oppenheim]] – ''[[Mysterious Mr. Sabin]]''
*[[Henrik Pontoppidan]] – ''[[Lucky Per]]'' (''Lykke-Per''; publication begins)
*[[Władysław Reymont]] – ''[[The Promised Land (novel)|The Promised Land]]'' (''Ziemia Obiecana''; serialization completed)
*[[Morgan Robertson]] – ''[[Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan]]''
*[[Garrett P. Serviss]] – ''[[Edison's Conquest of Mars]]'' (serialization)
*[[Italo Svevo]] – ''[[Senilità]] (As a Man Grows Older)''
*[[Mary Augusta Ward]] – ''[[Helbeck of Bannisdale]]''
*[[Theodore Watts-Dunton]] – ''Aylwin''
*[[H. G. Wells]] – ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' (book publication)
*[[Edward Noyes Westcott]] – ''[[David Harum]]''
*[[Owen Wister]] – ''Lin McLean''
*[[Charlotte Mary Yonge]] – ''The Armourer's Prentices''
*[[Émile Zola]] – ''Paris''

===Children and young people===
*[[J. Meade Falkner]] – ''[[Moonfleet (novel)|Moonfleet]]''
*[[Kenneth Grahame]] – ''[[Dream Days]]'' (dated 1899)
*[[K. Langloh Parker]] &ndash; ''[[Australian Legendary Tales#First edition|More Australian Legendary Tales]]''
*[[Emilio Salgari]] – ''Il Corsaro Nero'' (''[[The Black Corsair]]'' – first in the Black Corsair series of five books)
*[[Ernest Thompson Seton]] – ''[[Wild Animals I Have Known]]''
*[[Jules Verne]] – ''[[The Mighty Orinoco]] (Le Superbe Orénoque)''

===Drama===
*[[Gabriele D'Annunzio]]
**''Città Morta''
**''La Gioconda''
**''Sogno di un Pomeriggio d' Autunno''
*[[R. C. Carton]] – ''[[Lord and Lady Algy (play)|Lord and Lady Algy]]''
*[[José Echegaray]] – ''La duda'' (The Calum)
*[[Clyde Fitch]] – ''Nathan Hale''
*[[Jacob Gordin]] – ''[[Mirele Efros]]''
*[[John Oliver Hobbes]] (Pearl Craigie) – ''The Ambassador''
*[[Arthur Wing Pinero]] – ''[[Trelawny of the 'Wells']]''
*[[Quintero brothers]] – ''El buena sombra''
*[[George Bernard Shaw]] – ''[[Arms and the Man]]''
*[[Iosif Vulcan]] – ''Soare cu ploaie'' (Sunshower)

===Poetry===
*[[Thomas Hardy]] – ''[[Wessex Poems and Other Verses]]''
*[[Oscar Wilde]] (originally as "C.3.3") – ''[[The Ballad of Reading Gaol]]''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Catherine Isabella Dodd]] – ''Introduction to the Herbartian Principles of Teaching''
*[[Ebenezer Howard]] – ''[[To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform]]''
*[[Fred T. Jane]] – ''[[Jane's Fighting Ships|Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships]]''
*[[Sidney Lee]] – ''A Life of William Shakespeare''
*[[Liliʻuokalani]] – ''[[Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen]]''
*[[Thérèse of Lisieux]] (died 1897) – ''[[The Story of a Soul]] (L'Histoire d'une âme)''
*[[Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers]] – ''The Book of Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage''
*[[Leo Tolstoy]] – "[[What Is Art?]]"
*[[A. E. Waite]] – ''The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts''

==Births==
*[[February 6]] – [[Melvin B. Tolson]], African-American modernist poet (died [[1966 in literature|1966]])
*[[February 10]] 
**[[Bertolt Brecht]], German playwright and poet (died [[1956 in literature|1956]])
**[[Joseph Kessel]], French journalist and author (died [[1979 in literature|1979]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Bettina Liebowitz Knapp|title=French novelists speak out|publisher=Whitston Publishing Company|year=1976|isbn=9780878750849|page=65}}</ref>
*[[February 14]] – [[Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz]], Argentine writer, journalist, essayist and poet (died [[1959 in literature|1959]])
*[[March 12]] – [[Tian Han]], Chinese dramatist (died [[1968 in literature|1968]])
*[[April 3]] – [[Digby George Gerahty]], English novelist (died [[1981 in literature|1981]])
*[[April 8]] – [[Maurice Bowra]], English poet and humorist (died [[1971 in literature|1971]])
*[[April 28]] – [[William Soutar]], Scottish poet and diarist (died [[1943 in literature|1943]])
*[[May 18]] – [[Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel]], Turkish poet, author, and playwright (died [[1973 in literature|1973]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Necat|last=Birinci|title=Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel: Inceleme-Seçmeler|location=Cağaloğlu|publisher=Boğaziçi yayınları|year=1993|language=Turkish|isbn=978-9-75451-102-4|page=13}}</ref>
*[[May 19]] – [[Julius Evola]], Italian esotericist, journalist and philosopher (died [[1974 in literature|1974]])
*[[May 23]] – [[Scott O'Dell]], American children's author (died [[1989 in literature|1989]])<ref>{{cite news |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE2D91730F934A25753C1A96F948260 |date= October 17, 1989 |access-date= 2008-04-10 |title=Scott O'Dell, a Children's Author Of Historical Fiction, Dies at 91 |newspaper=The New York Times | first=Edwin | last=McDowell}}</ref>
*[[June 9]] – [[Curzio Malaparte]], Italian novelist, playwright, and journalist (died [[1957 in literature|1957]])
*[[June 23]] – [[Winifred Holtby]], English novelist and journalist (died [[1935 in literature|1935]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Winifred Holtby {{!}} Hull History Centre |url=https://www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/research/research-guides/winifred-holtby.aspx |website=www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk |access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref>
*[[July 8]] – [[Alec Waugh]], English novelist (died [[1981 in literature|1981]])
*[[July 9]] – [[Gerard Walschap]], Belgian writer (died [[1989 in literature|1989]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Writing in Holland and Flanders|publisher=Foundation for the Promotion of the Translation of Dutch Literary Works|year=1970|page=52}}</ref>
*[[July 22]]
**[[Stephen Vincent Benét]], American poet and short-story writer (died [[1943 in literature|1943]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Masterplots Cyclopedia of World Authors|publisher=Salem Press|year=1958|page=96}}</ref>
**[[Erich Maria Remarque]], German novelist (died [[1970 in literature|1970]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/26/archives/erich-maria-remarque-is-dead-novels-recorded-agony-of-war-erich.html |title=Erich Maria Remarque Is Dead; Novels Recorded Agony of War |newspaper=The New York Times |date=Sep 26, 1970}}</ref> 
*[[August 23]] – [[George Papashvily]], Georgian-American sculptor and author (died [[1978 in literature|1978]])
*[[August 28]] – [[Malcolm Cowley]], American novelist, poet, literary critic and journalist (died [[1989 in literature|1989]])
*[[September 1]] – [[Friedrich Georg Jünger]], German writer (died [[1977 in literature|1977]])
*[[September 9]] – [[Beverley Nichols]], British writer and playwright (died [[1983 in literature|1983]])
*[[September 13]] – [[Arthur J. Burks]], American writer (died [[1974 in literature|1974]])
*[[September 15]] – [[J. Slauerhoff]], Dutch poet and novelist (died [[1936 in literature|1936]])
*[[September 16]] – [[H. A. Rey]], German-born American children's writer and illustrator (died [[1977 in literature|1977]])
*[[October 9]] – [[Tawfiq al-Hakim]], Egyptian novelist and dramatist (died [[1987 in literature|1987]])
*[[October 17]] – [[Simon Vestdijk]], Dutch writer (died [[1971 in literature|1971]])
*[[November 9]] – [[Owen Barfield]], British philosopher, author and poet (died [[1997 in literature|1997]])
*[[November 14]] – [[Benjamin Fondane]], Romanian-born French poet, playwright and critic (died [[1944 in literature|1944]])
*[[November 25]] – [[Debaki Bose]], Indian actor, director and writer (died [[1971 in literature|1971]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/articles/2016/nov/17/2946/debaki-bose-mdash-the-first-internationally-honoured-indian-filmmaker|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228163342/https://www.cinestaan.com/articles/2016/nov/17/2946/debaki-bose-mdash-the-first-internationally-honoured-indian-filmmaker|url-status=live|archive-date=28 February 2018|title=Debaki Bose — The first internationally honoured Indian filmmaker|last=Pandya|first=Sonal|website=Cinestaan|access-date=2018-02-27}}</ref>
*[[November 29]] – [[C. S. Lewis]], English novelist and children's writer (died [[1963 in literature|1963]])<ref>{{cite book|author=James T. Como|title=Remembering C.S. Lewis: Recollections of Those who Knew Him|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7YtHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT42|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Ignatius Press|isbn=978-1-68149-406-7|pages=42}}</ref>
*[[December 27]] – [[W. C. Sellar]], English humorous writer (died [[1951 in literature|1951]])
*[[December 30]] – [[Claire Huchet Bishop]], Swiss children's author (died [[1993 in literature|1993]])<ref>[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/62416/claire-huchet-bishop/ Claire Huchet Bishop]</ref>

==Deaths==
*[[January 14]] – [[Lewis Carroll]] (Charles L. Dodgson), English scholar and children's writer (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles C. Lovett|title=In Memoriam, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898: Obituaries of Lewis Carroll and Related Pieces|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HKMaAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Lewis Carroll Society of North America|isbn=978-0-930326-12-8|page=160}}</ref>
*[[January 18]] – [[Henry Liddell]], English lexicographer of Greek (born [[1811 in literature|1811]])
*[[March 6]] – [[Felice Cavallotti]], Italian poet, playwright and politician (born [[1842 in literature|1842]])
*[[March 12]] – [[Zachris Topelius]], Swedish-language Finnish novelist (born [[1818 in literature|1818]])
*[[March 24]] – [[George Thomas Stokes]], Irish church historian (born [[1843 in literature|1843]])
*[[March 25]] – [[James Payn]], English novelist (born [[1830 in literature|1830]])
*[[March 31]] – [[Eleanor Marx]], English political writer and translator (born [[1855 in literature|1855]])
*[[April 13]] – [[Aurilla Furber]], American author, editor, and activist (born [[1847 in literature|1847]])
*[[May 22]] – [[Edward Bellamy]], American novelist (born [[1850 in literature|1850]])
*[[June 18]] – [[Alexandru Papadopol-Calimah]], Moldavian and Romanian historian, memoirist, and journalist (born [[1833 in literature|1833]])
*[[July 14]] – [[Eliza Lynn Linton]], English novelist and journalist (born [[1822 in literature|1822]])
*[[July 20]] – [[Jean Ingelow]], English poet and novelist (born [[1820 in literature|1820]])
*[[August 7]] – [[Georg Ebers]], German novelist and Egyptologist (born [[1837 in literature|1837]])
*[[August 17]] – [[Sir William Fraser, 4th Baronet]], English politician, author and book collector (born [[1826 in literature|1826]])
*[[September 9]] – [[Stéphane Mallarmé]], French Symbolist poet (born [[1842 in literature|1842]])
*[[September 20]] – [[Theodor Fontane]], German novelist and poet (born [[1819 in literature|1819]])
*[[September 29]] – [[William Kingsford]], English-born Canadian historian (born [[1819 in literature|1819]])
*[[November 29]] – [[Ángel Ganivet]], Spanish writer (born [[1865 in literature|1865]]; suicide by drowning)
*[[December 10]] – [[William Black (novelist)|William Black]], Scottish novelist (born [[1841 in literature|1841]])

==Awards==
*[[Newdigate prize]] – [[John Buchan]]

==References==
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