1898 in literature

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The year 1898 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

New books

• 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
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Rough Justice
• Ralph Connor - Black Rock
• Joseph Conrad - Tales of Unrest
• Alexander Craig - Ionia
• Stephen Crane - The Open Boat and Other Tales
• Paul Laurence Dunbar - The Uncalled
• J. Meade Falkner - Moonfleet
• John Fox, Jr. - The Kentuckians
• Kenneth Grahame - Dream Days
• 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 - The Black Corsair
• Jules Verne - The Mighty Orinoco
• Mary Augusta Ward - Helbeck of Bannisdale
• Theodore Watts-Dunton - Aylwin
• 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

• John F. T. Jane - Jane's Fighting Ships
• Liliʻuokalani - Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

Births

• February 6 - Melvin B. Tolson, poet
• May 23 - Scott O'Dell, children's author
• July 22 - Erich Maria Remarque (died 1970)
• August 23 - George Papashvily, sculptor and author
• September 13 - Arthur J. Burks (died 1974)
• November 29 - C. S. Lewis (died 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, 4th Baronet, 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

• Newdigate prize - John Buchan