1895 in literature

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The year 1895 in literature involved some significant new books.

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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.

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

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