1894 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

• Robert Frost sells his first poem, "My Butterfly", to The New York Independent for fifteen dollars.
• Hermann Hesse begins his apprenticeship at a factory in Calw.
• Lafcadio Hearn begins working as a journalist for the English-language Kobe Chronicle.
• Claude Debussy writes his Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, a free interpretation of Stέphane Mallarmé's 1876 poem, "L'après-midi d'un faune".
• Mary Antin emigrates from Belarus to the USA with her family.

[edit] New books

• Gabriele D'Annunzio - The Triumph of Death
• Richard Doddridge Blackmore -Perlycross
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Christmas Hirelings
• Hall Caine
  • The Manxman
  • The Madhi: or Love and Race, A Drama in Story
• Kate Chopin - Bayou Folk
• Arthur Conan Doyle - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
• George du Maurier
  • Svengali's Web
  • Trilby
• Theodor Fontane - Effi Briest
• Harold Frederic - The Damnation of Theron Ware
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Pembroke
• George Gissing - In the Year of Jubilee
• H. Rider Haggard - The People of the Mist
• Knut Hamsun - Pan
• Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda
• William Dean Howells - A Traveler from Altruria
• Jerome K. Jerome - John Ingerfield: And Other Stories
• Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
• Selma Lagerlöf - The Story of Gosta Berling
• Sheridan Le Fanu - The Watcher and Other Weird Stories
• George A. Moore - Esther Waters
• William Morris - The Wood Beyond the World
• Arthur Morrison - Martin Hewitt: Investigator
• John Muir - The Mountains of California
• Jules Renard - Poil de Carotte (Carrot Hair)
• Margaret Marshall Saunders - Beautiful Joe
• Stendhal - Lucien Leuwen
• Robert Louis Stevenson - The Ebb Tide
• Mark Twain
  • Pudd'nhead Wilson
  • Tom Sawyer Abroad
• Mary Augusta Ward - Marcella
• Israel Zangwill - The Bachelors' Club
• Emile Zola - Lourdes

[edit] New drama

• Henry Arthur Jones - The Case of Rebellious Susan

[edit] Poetry

• Bliss Carman - Low Tide on Grande Pre: A Book Of Lyrics
• Pierre Louÿs - Songs of Bilitis
• Rainer Maria Rilke - Leben und Lieder

[edit] Non-fiction

• Edward Carpenter - Homogenic love and its place in a free society
• Karl Marx - Das Kapital
• Leo Tolstoy - The Kingdom of God Is Within You

[edit] Births

• March 17 - Paul Green, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (+ 1981)
• July 26 - Aldous Huxley, poet (+ 1963)
• October 14 - E. E. Cummings, American poet
• October 26 - Eugene Jolas, writer, literary translator and critic (d. 1952)

[edit] Deaths

• February 8 - RM Ballantyne, author
• April 8 - Bankim Chatterjee, novelist
• July 30 - Walter Horatio Pater, author
• October 8 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, writer
• December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson, author

[edit] Awards