1895 in literature

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The year 1895 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• Carlyle's House in Chelsea opens to the public.
• Robert Frost marries Elinor Miriam White.
• Ernest Thayer recites his poem, Casey at the Bat, at a Harvard class reunion.
• The American Historical Review is published for the first time.
• Pan, a German arts and literary magazine, is first published.
• The first edition of the Times Atlas of the World is published at the office of The Times newspaper in London.

New books

• Grant Allen - The British Barbarians
  • The Woman Who Did
• John Kendrick Bangs - A House-Boat on the Styx
• Rhoda Broughton - Scylla or Charybdis?
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Sons of Fire
• Robert W. Chambers - The King in Yellow
• Joseph Conrad - Almayer's Folly
• Marie Corelli - The Sorrows of Satan
• Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
• Ménie Muriel Dowie - Gallia
• J. Meade Falkner - The Lost Stradivarius
• G. E. Farrow - The Wallypug of Why
• Antonio Fogazzaro - Piccolo mondo antico
• Hamlin Garland - Rose of Dutcher's Coolly
• George Gissing -
  • Eve's Ransom
  • The Paying Guest
  • Sleeping Fires
• Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
• Castello Holford - Aristopia
• Joris-Karl Huysmans - En Route
• Henry James - Terminations
• Rudyard Kipling - The Brushwood Boy
  • The Second Jungle Book
• George MacDonald - Lilith
• George Meredith - The Amazing Marriage
• Kálmán Mikszáth - St. Peter's Umbrella
• Arthur Morrison - Chronicles of Martin Hewitt
• Eliza Orne White - The Coming of Theodora
• Gustavus W. Pope - Journey to Venus
• Bolesław Prus - Pharaoh
• Emilio Salgari - I misteri della jungla nera
• Henryk Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis
• Leo Tolstoy - Master and Man
• Jules Verne - Propeller Island
• H. G. Wells - The Time Machine

New drama

• Alfred Jarry - Caesar Antichrist
• Maurice Maeterlinck - Interior (first production)
• Jules Renard - La demande
• Frank Wedekind - Earth Spirit
• Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest

Poetry

• Giovanni Marradi - Ballati moderne

Births

• February 14 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher (died 1973)
• February 28 - Marcel Pagnol, French novelist (died 1974)
• March 29 - Ernst Jünger, German novelist (died 1998)
• April 23 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand novelist (died 1982)
• May 9 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet and philosopher (died 1961)
• May 19 - Charles Sorley, British poet (died 1915)
• June 16 - Warren Lewis, British historian, brother of C. S. Lewis and Inkling (died 1973)
• July 14 - F. R. Leavis, British literary critic (died 1978)
• July 24 - Robert Graves, English poet and novelist (died 1985)
• September 21 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (died 1925)
• October 17 - C. H. B. Kitchin, British novelist (died 1967)
• October 31 - B. H. Liddell Hart, English military historian (died 1970)
• November 1 - David Jones, British poet and artist (died 1974)
• November 16 - Michael Arlen, Armenian novelist and short story writer (died 1956)
• December 1 - Henry Williamson, English novelist (died 1977)
• December 14 - Paul Éluard, French poet (died 1952)
• date unknown - Vivian de Sola Pinto, British poet, literary critic, and historian (died 1969)

Deaths

• January 13 - John Robert Seeley, English historian and essayist (born 1834)
• January 15 - Lady Charlotte Guest, British translator of Welsh literature (born 1812)
• February 20 - Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist, orator and writer (born 1818)
• March 5 - Nikolai Leskov, Russian journalist, novelist and short story writer (born 1831)
• March 15 - Cesare Cantù, Italian historian (born 1804)
• March 22 - Henry Coppée, American historian and biographer (born 1821)
• April 3 - Gustav Freytag, German novelist and dramatist (born 1816)
• April 26 - Eric Stenbock, Baltic German poet (born 1858)
• May 26 - Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman historian and legal writer (born 1822)
• August 1 - Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (born 1817)
• August 5 - Friedrich Engels, German socialist writer (born 1820)
• November 4 - Eugene Field, American children's author (born 1850)
• November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and dramatist (born 1824)
• date unknown
  • William Grainge, English historian and poet (born 1818)
  • Auguste Vacquerie, French journalist (born 1819)

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