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1898 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1898.

Events
January 13Émile Zola's open letter to Félix Faure, President of France, on the Dreyfus affair, ''J'Accuse...!, is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper L'Aurore. On February 23, Zola is convicted of criminal libel in connection with J'Accuse...!. Following dismissal of his appeal he flees to London (arriving on July 19) to escape imprisonment. In August he begins writing his novel Fécondité'' in the suburbs. • February 5June 18M. P. Shiel's "Yellow Peril" novel The Empress of the Earth, written around contemporary events in China, appears in the Pearson weekly Short Stories (London) and in book form in July as The Yellow Danger; it is frequently reprinted. • February 25 – Première of Frank Wedekind's Earth Spirit (Erdgeist), first of his Lulu plays, in Leipzig, in a production by Carl Heine, with Wedekind himself in the role of Dr. Schön. • March 25O. Henry is imprisoned in Ohio Penitentiary, Columbus, for embezzlement. • May 28Max Beerbohm succeeds George Bernard Shaw as theater critic of The Saturday Review (London); Shaw introduces him as "The Incomparable Max". • June – First appearance of E. W. Hornung's fictional gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in the story "The Ides of March" in ''Cassell's Magazine'' (London). • December 2Moscow Art Theatre's first season opens with a double bill of Emilia Matthai's ''Greta's Happiness'' and Carlo Goldoni's The Mistress of the Inn. The successful and influential Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull by Chekhov (its Moscow première), would open on . • unknown datesPeadar Ua Laoghaire's story begins serialisation in Ireland as the first Irish language novel (published in book form 1904). • Gerald Duckworth establishes the publishers Gerald Duckworth and Company in London. Henry James's novella In the Cage is among their first year's output. • English designer C. R. Ashbee begins book production at the Essex House Press. • Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary begins publication. • The "Generation of '98" writers and thinkers are active in Spain. • The term "Young Poland" is coined after a manifesto by Artur Górski, published in the Kraków newspaper Życie ("Life"), to signify the period of modernism in the Polish arts. ==New books==
New books
FictionTxomin AgirreAunamendiko LoreaLeonid Andreyev – "Bargamot and Garaska" (Баргамот и Гараська, short story) • Elizabeth von ArnimElizabeth and Her German GardenF. W. BainA Digit of the MoonL. Frank Baum – ''By the Candelabra's Glare'' • Arnold BennettA Man from the NorthVicente Blasco IbáñezThe Shack (La barraca)Mary Elizabeth BraddonRough JusticeN. D. CoceaPoet-PoetăRalph ConnorBlack RockJoseph ConradTales of UnrestAlexander CraigIoniaStephen CraneThe Monster and Other StoriesThe Open Boat and Other TalesStephanus Jacobus du ToitDie Koningin van SkebaPaul Laurence DunbarFolks From Dixie (short stories) • The UncalledFinley Peter DunneMr. Dooley in Peace and in WarJohn Fox, Jr.The KentuckiansÁngel GanivetLos trabajos del infatigable creador Pío CidMaurice HewlettForest LoversAnthony HopeRupert of HentzauJoris-Karl HuysmansLa CathédraleHenry JamesThe Turn of the Screw (novella in The Two Magics) • Olha KobylianskaValse melancoliqueJerome K. JeromeThe Second Thoughts of an Idle FellowJohn Luther Long – "Madame Butterfly" • Pierre LouÿsThe Woman and the Puppet (La Femme et le pantin)Charles MajorWhen Knighthood Was in FlowerGeorge MooreEvelyn InnesWładysław ReymontThe Promised Land (Ziemia Obiecana; serialization completed) • Morgan RobertsonFutility, or the Wreck of the TitanGarrett P. Serviss – ''Edison's Conquest of Mars'' (serialization) • Italo SvevoSenilità (As a Man Grows Older)Mary Augusta WardHelbeck of BannisdaleTheodore Watts-DuntonAylwinH. G. WellsThe War of the Worlds (book publication) • Edward Noyes WestcottDavid HarumOwen WisterLin McLeanCharlotte Mary Yonge – ''The Armourer's Prentices'' • Émile ZolaParis Children and young peopleJ. Meade FalknerMoonfleetKenneth GrahameDream Days (dated 1899) • Emilio SalgariIl Corsaro Nero (The Black Corsair – first in the Black Corsair series of five books) • Ernest Thompson SetonWild Animals I Have KnownJules VerneThe Mighty Orinoco (Le Superbe Orénoque) DramaGabriele D'AnnunzioCittà MortaLa Gioconda • ''Sogno di un Pomeriggio d' Autunno'' • R. C. CartonLord and Lady AlgyJosé EchegarayLa duda (The Calum) • Clyde FitchNathan HaleJohn Oliver Hobbes (Pearl Craigie) – The AmbassadorArthur Wing Pinero – ''Trelawny of the 'Wells''' • George Bernard ShawArms and the ManIosif VulcanSoare cu ploaie (Sunshower) PoetryThomas HardyWessex Poems and Other VersesOscar Wilde (originally as "C.3.3") – The Ballad of Reading Gaol Non-fictionCatherine Isabella DoddIntroduction to the Herbartian Principles of TeachingEbenezer HowardTo-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real ReformFred T. Jane – ''Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships'' • Sidney LeeA Life of William ShakespeareLiliʻuokalani – ''Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen'' • Thérèse of Lisieux (died 1897) – ''The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une âme)'' • Samuel Liddell MacGregor MathersThe Book of Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the MageA. E. WaiteThe Book of Black Magic and of Pacts ==Births==
Births
February 6Melvin B. Tolson, African-American modernist poet (died 1966) • February 10Bertolt Brecht, German playwright and poet (died 1956) • Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (died 1979) • February 14Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, Argentine writer, journalist, essayist and poet (died 1959) • March 12Tian Han, Chinese dramatist (died 1968) • April 8Maurice Bowra, English poet and humorist (died 1971) • May 18Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (died 1973) • May 19Julius Evola, Italian esotericist, journalist and philosopher (died 1974) • May 23Scott O'Dell, American children's author (died 1989) • June 9Curzio Malaparte, Italian novelist, playwright, and journalist (died 1957) • June 23Winifred Holtby, English novelist and journalist (died 1935) • July 8Alec Waugh, English novelist (died 1981) • July 9Gerard Walschap, Belgian writer (died 1989) • July 22Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet and short-story writer (died 1943) • Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (died 1970) • August 23George Papashvily, Georgian-American sculptor and author (died 1978) • August 28Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic and journalist (died 1989) • September 13Arthur J. Burks, American writer (died 1974) • September 15J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (died 1936) • September 16H. A. Rey, German-born American children's writer and illustrator (died 1977) • October 9Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian novelist and dramatist (died 1987) • October 17Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer (died 1971) • November 14Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-born French poet, playwright and critic (died 1944) • November 25Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director and writer (died 1971) • November 29C. S. Lewis, English novelist and children's writer (died 1963) • December 27W. C. Sellar, English humorous writer (died 1951) • December 30Claire Huchet Bishop, Swiss children's author (died 1993) ==Deaths==
Deaths
January 14Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), English scholar and children's writer (born 1832) • January 18Henry Liddell, English lexicographer of Greek (born 1811) • March 6Felice Cavallotti, Italian poet, playwright and politician (born 1842) • March 24George Thomas Stokes, Irish church historian (born 1843) • March 25James Payn, English novelist (born 1830) • March 31Eleanor Marx, English political writer and translator (born 1855) • May 22Edward Bellamy, American novelist (born 1850) • July 14Eliza Lynn Linton, English novelist and journalist (born 1822) • July 20Jean Ingelow, English poet and novelist (born 1820) • August 7Georg Ebers, German novelist and Egyptologist (born 1837) • August 17Sir William Fraser, 4th Baronet, English politician, author and book collector (born 1826) • September 9Stéphane Mallarmé, French Symbolist poet (born 1842) • September 20Theodor Fontane, German novelist and poet (born 1819) • September 29William Kingsford, English-born Canadian historian (born 1819) • November 29Ángel Ganivet, Spanish writer (born 1865; suicide by drowning) • December 10William Black, Scottish novelist (born 1841) ==Awards==
Awards
Newdigate prizeJohn Buchan ==References==
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