1894 in literature

Events

New Books

• The Bachelors' Club[?] - Israel Zangwill[?]
• Bayou Folk[?] - Kate Chopin
• The Christmas Hirelings[?] - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Damnation of Theron Ware[?] - Harold Frederic[?]
• The Ebb Tide[?] - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Esther Waters[?] - George A. Moore
• In the Year of Jubilee[?] - George Gissing[?]
• Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
• The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
• Lourdes[?] - Emile Zola
• Lucien Leuwen[?] - Stendahl[?]
• The Manxman[?] - Hall Caine
• Marcella[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• Martin Hewitt: Investigator[?] - Arthur Morrison[?]
• The Mountains of California[?] - John Muir
• Pembroke[?] - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman[?]
• The People of the Mist[?] - H. Rider Haggard
• Perlycross[?] - Richard Doddridge Blackmore[?]
• The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
• Pudd'nhead Wilson[?] - Mark Twain
• The Story of Gosta Berling[?] - Selma Lagerlof
• Svengali's Web[?] - George du Maurier
• Tom Sawyer Abroad[?] - Mark Twain
• Trilby[?] - George du Maurier
• The Triumph of Death[?] - Gabriele D'Annunzio
• The Watcher and Other Weird Stories[?] - Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Wood Beyond the World[?] - William Morris

Births

• March 17 - Paul Green[?], novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (+ 1981)
• October 14 - e. e. cummings, American poet

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

Awards