1895 in literature
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See also: 1894 in literature, other events of 1895, 1896 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Ernest Thayer recites his poem, Casey at the Bat, at a Harvard class reunion.
- The American Historical Review is published for the first time.
- Robert Frost marries Elinor Miriam White.
[edit] New books
- Grant Allen
- The British Barbarians
- The Woman Who Did
- Rhoda Broughton - Scylla or Charybdis?
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Sons of Fire
- Robert W. Chambers - The Queen in Yellow
- Joseph Conrad - Almayer's Folly
- Marie Corelli - The Sorrows of Satan
- Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
- Hamlin Garland - 'Rose of Dutcher's Coolly
- Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
- Joris-Karl Huysmans - En Route
- Henry James - The Altar of the Dead
- Rudyard Kipling
- The Brushwood Boy
- The Second Jungle Book
- George MacDonald - Lilith
- Arthur Morrison - Chronicles of Martin Hewitt
- Eliza Orne White - The Coming of Theodora
- Bolesław Prus - Pharaoh
- Emilio Salgari - I misteri della jungla nera
- Henryk Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis
- Leo Tolstoy - Master and Man
- H. G. Wells - The Time Machine
[edit] New drama
- Jules Renard - La demande
- Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
[edit] Poetry
- Giovanni Marradi - Ballati moderne
[edit] Births
- February 14 - Max Horkheimer, philosopher (d. 1973)
- February 28 - Marcel Pagnol, novelist
- March 29 - Ernst Jünger, author (+ 1998)
- April 23 - Ngaio Marsh, novelist
- May 9 - Lucian Blaga, poet and philosopher
- May 19 - Charles Sorley, war poet (d. 1915)
- June 16 - Warren Lewis, historian, brother of C. S. Lewis and Inkling
- July 14 - F. R. Leavis, critic
- July 24 - Robert Graves, writer (+ 1985)
- September 21 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
- October 17 - C. H. B. Kitchin, novelist
- October 31 - Basil Liddell Hart, military historian (d. 1970)
- November 1 - David Jones, poet and artist
- November 16 - Michael Arlen, novelist and short story writer (d. 1956)
- December 1 - Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter author
- December 14 - Paul Éluard, Surrealist poet
- date unknown - Vivian de Sola Pinto, poet, memoirist, historian, etc.
[edit] Deaths
- January 13 - John Robert Seeley, historian and essayist
- January 15 - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion
- February 20 - Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, orator and writer
- March - Cesare Cantù, historian
- March 5 - Nikolai Leskov, journalist, novelist and short story writer
- March 22 - Henry Coppée, historian and biographer
- April 3 - Gustav Freytag, novelist and dramatist
- April 26 - Eric Stenbock, poet
- May 26 - Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, historian and legal writer
- August 1 - Heinrich von Sybel, historian
- August 5 - Friedrich Engels, socialist writer
- November 4 - Eugene Field, children's author
- November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils
- date unknown
- William Grainge, historian and poet
- Auguste Vacquerie, journalist
