1898 in literature
See also: 1897 in literature, other events of 1898, 1899 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- Elizabeth von Arnim - Elizabeth and Her German Garden
- F. W. Bain - A Digit of the Moon
- Arnold Bennett - A Man from the North
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Rough Justice
- Frank T. Bullen - The Cruise of the Cachalot
- Ralph Connor - Black Rock
- Joseph Conrad - Tales of Unrest
- Stephen Crane - The Open Boat and Other Tales
- Paul Laurence Dunbar - The Uncalled
- J. Meade Falkner - Moonfleet
- John Fox, Jr. - The Kentuckians
- Kenneth Grahame - The Reluctant Dragon
- Anthony Hope - Rupert of Hentzau
- Joris-Karl Huysmans - La Cathedrale
- Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - The Cabin
- Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
- Jerome K. Jerome - The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
- Pierre Louÿs - La Femme et le pantin
- Charles Major - When Knighthood Was in Flower
- George Moore -Evelyn Innes
- Emilio Salgari - Il corsaro nero
- Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives
- Mary Augusta Ward - Helbeck of Bannisdale
- H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds
- Edward Noyes Westcott - David Harum
- Owen Wister - Lin McLean
- Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Armourer's Prentices
- Emile Zola - Paris
New drama
- Gabriele D'Annunzio - Sogno di un Pomeriggio d' Autunno
- George Bernard Shaw - Arms and the Man
Non-fiction
Births
- February 6 - Melvin B. Tolson, poet
- May 23 - Scott O'Dell, children's author
- July 22 - Erich Maria Remarque (d. 1970)
- August 23 - George Papashvily, sculptor and author
- November 29 - C. S. Lewis (d. 1963)
- December 27 - W. C. Sellar, co-author of 1066 and All That
Deaths
- January 14 - Lewis Carroll, children's author
- January 18 - Henry Liddell, co-compiler of Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, still in use by classical scholars
- March 6 - Felice Cavallotti, politician and poet
- March 24 - George Thomas Stokes, church historian
- March 31 - Eleanor Marx, political writer and translator, daughter of Karl Marx
- May 22 - Edward Bellamy, novelist
- July 20 - Jean Ingelow, poet and novelist
- August 7 - Georg Ebers, novelist and discoverer of the "Ebers manuscript"
- August 17 - Sir William Fraser, Bt, politician, author and book collector
- September 9 - Stéphane Mallarmé, Symbolist poet
- September 20 - Theodor Fontane, novelist and poet
- September 29 - William Kingsford, historian
- December 10 - William Black, novelist
Awards
Categories
1898 books