1894 in literature
See also: 1893 in literature, other events of 1894, 1895 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- The Bachelors' Club – Israel Zangwill
- Bayou Folk – Kate Chopin
- Beautiful Joe – Margaret Marshall Saunders
- 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
- The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
- Lourdes – Emile Zola
- Lucien Leuwen – Stendhal
- 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 Lagerlöf
- 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
- October 26 – Eugene Jolas, writer, literary translator and critic (d. 1952)
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
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