1898 IN LITERATURE

The year '1898 in literature' involved some significant new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

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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

★ 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 (d. 1970)

★ August 23 - George Papashvily, sculptor and author

★ September 13 - Arthur J. Burks (d. 1974)

★ 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, 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