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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1895.
Events
January – The Ottoman illustrated magazine Servet-i Fünun is taken over by Tevfik Fikret, who turns it into a vehicle for Edebiyat-ı Cedide ("New Literature"). These writers are committed to conservatism and Ottomanism, rather than Turkish nationalism, but also favor Westernization. They use a "recondite and obscure" Ottoman language within the framework of aestheticism.Lewis Bernard Bernard Lewis The Emergence of Modern Turkey https://archive.org/details/emergenceofmoder00bern registration Oxford University Press London etc. 1968 191–193 959415786
January–May – H. G. Wells' first "scientific romance", the novella The Time Machine, is published serially in The New Review (London). The first book editions are published by the Henry Holt and Company in New York on May 7 and by Heinemann in London on May 29.
thumb|Toulouse-Lautrec's portrait of Oscar Wilde on the night before his trial opensToulouse-Lautrec portrait of Oscar Wilde resurfaces https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/10/maevkennedy Maev Kennedy Maev Kennedy The Guardian London 10 November 2000 2012-06-18
January 3 – The première of Oscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband takes place at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
January 5
The première of Henry James's historical drama Guy Domville held at St James's Theatre in London is booed.
A. E. Waite ceases to publish and edit his occult periodical The Unknown World.
January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is registered in England and begins acquiring properties and making them accessible to the public. Carlyle's House in Chelsea is one of the first to open.
February – The Bookman (New York), a monthly, is first published by Dodd, Mead and Company with Harry Thurston Peck as editor. It publishes the first bestseller list, which is headed by Frank R. Stockton's novel The Adventures of Captain Horn.
February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, opens at St James's Theatre, London.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006
February 18 – The Marquess of Queensberry (father of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover), leaves a calling card at the Albemarle Club in London inscribed: "For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite", i. e. sodomite, inducing Wilde to charge him with criminal libel.Holland Merlin 2003 The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Harper Collins London 0-00-714436-9 300 Holland Merlin Merlin Holland Irish Peacock & Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde Fourth Estate London 2003 0-00-715418-6 300 In a meeting on March 25 at the Café Royal in London, Frank Harris and George Bernard Shaw fail to dissuade Wilde from proceeding with the action.
March 4 – George du Maurier's play, Trilby, based on his novel of the same name, serialised in 1894 and first published in book form in 1895, opens at the Boston Museum in the United States, with a New York première on April 15 at the Garden Theatre. Wilton Lackaye plays Svengali and Virginia Harned the title rôle.
April/May – Pan, a German arts and literary magazine, is first published, in Berlin.
April 3–5 – Queensberry is acquitted in the libel case of Wilde v Queensberry at the Old Bailey in London.t18950325-336 JOHN SHOLTO DOUGLAS 25 March 1895 Evidence of Wilde's homosexual relationships with young men renders him liable to criminal prosecution under the Labouchere Amendment, while the Libel Act 1843 renders him legally liable for the considerable expenses Queensberry has incurred in his defence, leaving Wilde penniless.
April 6 – Oscar Wilde is arrested at the Cadogan Hotel, London, in the company of Robbie Ross, for "unlawfully committing acts of gross indecency with certain male persons". He is detained on remand in Holloway Prison.
April 29 – Joseph Conrad's novel Almayer's Folly is published in London by T. Fisher Unwin, as Conrad's first published work, after retirement from his career at sea. It marks the first appearance of his pseudonym.
May 23 – Representatives of the Astor Library and Lenox Library, with the backing of Samuel J. Tilden, agree to merge and form the New York Public Library.
May 25
After a retrial of the criminal case of Regina v. Wilde at the Old Bailey, Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and taken to Pentonville Prison to begin a two-year sentence of hard labour.https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18950520-425 Oscar Fingal O'Fflahartie Wills Wilde, Alfred Waterhouse Somerset Taylor, Sexual Offences... 20th May 1895 The Proceedings of the Old Bailey April 2013 2014-11-24 In June he requests to read in his cell Pater's The Renaissance, Augustine's Confessions and works by Baudelaire and Newman. On November 21 he is transferred to Reading Gaol.
Henry Irving becomes the first English actor to be knighted as such.Moira Lister Moira Shearer Ellen Terry Stroud Sutton Publishing 1998 0-7509-1526-9 99
June 21 – William Poel's newly formed Elizabethan Stage Society, created to promote productions of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the assumed style of the English Renaissance theatre, gives its first performance, at Burlington Hall.Stanley Wells Shakespeare Survey https://books.google.com/books?id=WyFH_Aj9fnkC&pg=PA17 16 October 2003 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-54185-5 17
September 7 – The stage version of Trilby (see March 4) has its UK première at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, with a London première on October 30 at the Haymarket Theatre), with Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Dorothea Baird. The play is so successful that Tree can use the profits to build Her Majesty's Theatre. It also popularises the trilby hat.
October
The American Historical Review appears for the first time.JSTOR: All issues of The American Historical Review.
Stephen Crane's American Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage is first published in an abridged book format by D. Appleton & Company in New York.
Rudyard Kipling publishes the story "Mowgli Leaves the Jungle Forever" in The Cosmopolitan illustrated magazine in the United States, concluding the series collected in The Second Jungle Book, published in England in November.
November 1 – Thomas Hardy's last completed novel, Jude the Obscure, is published by Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co. in London, dated 1896, on completion of an expurgated serialization under the title Hearts Insurgent in Harper's Magazine. It is strongly criticized on moral grounds. Hardy later claims that Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield, burned a copy.Slack, Robert C. Nineteenth-Century Fiction 11 (4, March 1957) pp. 261–275.
c. December – Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, the future Joseph Stalin, publishes his romantic poems in the newspaper Iveria, receiving accolades from a senior writer, Ilia Chavchavadze.Montefiore Simon Sebag Simon Sebag Montefiore Young Stalin Phoenix London 2007 56–59, 187 978-1-4072-2145-8
December 19 – Robert Frost marries Elinor Miriam White at Lawrence, Massachusetts.Manorama Bala Trikha Robert Frost, Poetry of Clarifications https://books.google.com/books?id=R9hlAAAAMAAJ 1983 Arnold-Heinemann 978-0-391-02751-0 16–17
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Abdallah bin Hemedi bin Ali Ajjemy's Habari za Wakilindi is the first novel to be published in the Swahili language.Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective 1 Pettersson, Anders https://books.google.com/books?id=2muIgoqGR1kC&q=%22first+Swahili+novel%22&pg=PA231 231 9783110189322 2006
Castello Holford's utopian novel Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World, appears in Boston as the first full-length alternate history in English.
Ernest Thayer recites Casey at the Bat at a Harvard class reunion, appearing to resolve a mystery about the poem's authorship.
The first edition of the Times Atlas of the World is published at the office of The Times newspaper in London.
Hall Caine travels in the United States and Canada, representing the U.K. Society of Authors. He obtains international copyright concessions from the Dominion Parliament.Warner Charles Dudley A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol. VII 1896 The International Society New York 3067–8
New books
Fiction
Grant Allen
The British Barbarians
The Woman Who Did
John Kendrick Bangs – A House-Boat on the Styx
Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Sons of Fire
Rhoda Broughton – Scylla or Charybdis?
Robert W. Chambers – The King in Yellow
Anton Chekhov – "Three Years"
Joseph Conrad – Almayer's Folly
Marie Corelli – The Sorrows of Satan
Stephen Crane – The Red Badge of Courage
Victoria Crosse – The Woman Who Didn't
Grazia Deledda – Anime oneste (Honest soul)
Ménie Muriel Dowie – Gallia
Alice Dunbar – Violets and Other Tales (short stories and poetry)
Isabelle Eberhardt as Nicolas Podolinsky – "Infernalia" (short story)
J. Meade Falkner – The Lost Stradivarius
Antonio Fogazzaro – The Little World of the Past (Piccolo mondo antico)
Ludwig Ganghofer – Hubertus Castle
Hamlin Garland – Rose of Dutcher's Coolly
George Gissing
Eve's Ransom
The Paying Guest
Sleeping Fires
Thomas Hardy – Jude the Obscure
Robert Hichens – An Imaginative Man
Castello Holford – Aristopia
William Wilson Hunter – The Old Missionary (book publication)
Joris-Karl Huysmans – En Route
Henry James – Terminations (collection)
Olha Kobylianska – Tsarivna (Princess)
John Uri Lloyd – Etidorhpa, or, the end of the earth: the strange history of a mysterious being and the account of a remarkable journey
George MacDonald – Lilith
Ian Maclaren – The Days of Auld Lang SyneJohn Sutherland John Sutherland (author) Bestsellers: a very short introduction Oxford University Press 2007 978-0-19-921489-1 85
George Meredith – The Amazing Marriage
Dmitry Merezhkovsky – The Death of the Gods
Kálmán Mikszáth – St. Peter's Umbrella (Szent Péter esernyője)
Arthur Morrison – Chronicles of Martin Hewitt
Henrik Pontoppidan – Det forjættede Land (The Promised Land; publication concludes)
Gustavus W. Pope – Journey to Venus
Bolesław Prus – Pharaoh (Faraon; serialization begins)
Emilio Salgari – I misteri della 8jungla nera
Henryk Sienkiewicz – Quo Vadis
Leo Tolstoy – Master and Man (Хозяин и работник)
Jules Verne – Propeller Island (L'Île à hélice)
H. G. Wells – The Time Machine
Children and young people
Lewis Carroll – Sylvie and Bruno
G. E. Farrow – The Wallypug of Why
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler – The Young Pretenders (reissued 2007)
Rudyard Kipling
The Brushwood Boy
The Second Jungle Book
L. T. Meade – A Princess of the Gutter
Mary Louisa Molesworth (Mrs. Molesworth) – The Carved Lions
Emilio Salgari – I Misteri della Jungla Nera (The Mystery of the Black Jungle – first in the Sandokan series of eleven books)
Florence Kate Upton – The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg
Alice Zimmern – Greek History for Young Readers
Drama
Tristan Bernard – Les Pieds nickelés
Hall Caine with Louis N. Parker – The Manxman (as Pete)
Henry Guy Carleton – Ambition
Joaquín Dicenta – Juan José
José Echegaray – El estigma
Sidney R. Ellis – Bonnie ScotlandThe Best Plays of 1894-1899 Bonnie Scotland Garrison P. Sherwood John Chapman Dodd, Mead & Co. 1955 158
Hulda Garborg – Mødre
Alfred Jarry – Caesar Antichrist
Maurice Maeterlinck – Interior (Intérieur, verse play for marionettes, first production)
Jules Renard – La Demande
Arthur Schnitzler – Liebelei
Tsubouchi Shōyō (坪内 逍遥) – Kiri Hitoha (A Paulownia Leaf, writing complete)
Frank Wedekind – Earth Spirit
Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest
Poetry
Pauline Johnson – The White Wampum
Giovanni Marradi – Ballati moderne
Banjo Paterson – The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses
See also 1895 in poetry
Non-fiction
Lord Acton – A Lecture on the Study of History
Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud – Studies on Hysteria (Studien über Hysterie)
Anton Chekhov – " Sakhalin Island"
Francis Darwin – The Elements of Botany
Annetta Seabury Dresser – The Philosophy of P. P. Quimby
Gustave Le Bon – Psychologie des foules (Psychology of Crowds)
Friedrich Nietzsche – Der Antichrist (written 1888)
Births
January 24 – Eugen Roth, German poet and lyricist (died 1976)
February 14 – Max Horkheimer, German philosopher (died 1973)
February 28 – Marcel Pagnol, French novelist (died 1974)
March 29 – Ernst Jünger, German novelist (died 1998)
April 15 – Corrado Alvaro, Italian novelist and journalist (died 1968)Gaetana Marrone Paolo Puppa Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies https://books.google.com/books?id=d9NcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA29 26 December 2006 Routledge 978-1-135-45530-9 29
April 17 – Ion Vinea, Romanian poet and novelist (died 1964)
April 20 – Henry de Montherlant, French novelist and dramatist (suicide 1972)
April 23 – Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand detective fiction writer and theatre director (died 1982)
May 3 – Ernst Kantorowicz, German historian (died 1963)
May 8 – Edmund Wilson, American literary critic (died 1972)
May 9 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet and philosopher (died 1961)
May 11 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer (died 1986)Williams Christine V. 2004 Jiddu Krishnamurti: world philosopher (1895–1986): his life and thoughts https://books.google.com/books?id=NzDar6XfICEC Delhi Motilal Banarsidass 978-81-208-2032-6 3 October 2011
May 19 – Charles Sorley, Scottish-born poet (killed in action 1915)
May 24 – Marcel Janco, Romanian–Israeli artist, art theorist, essayist and poet (died 1984)
June 16 – Warren Lewis, Irish-born historian (died 1973)
June 27 – Anna Banti, Italian art historian, critic, and translator (died 1985)
June 29 – Alice Lardé de Venturino, Salvadoran poet and writer (died 1983)Vargas Méndez Jorge Alice Lardé de Venturino: Del Amor por la Poesía a la Ciencia http://www.libros.com.sv/edicion16/alice.html Salvadoran Libros 19 September 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20080302091353/http://www.libros.com.sv/edicion16/alice.html 2 March 2008 San Salvador, El Salvador Spanish 2003 Alice Lardé de Venturino: From love of poetry to science
July 14 – F. R. Leavis, English literary critic (died 1978)Michael Bell F.R. Leavis https://books.google.com/books?id=w20WDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA3 29 April 2016 Routledge 978-1-134-95195-6 3
July 24 – Robert Graves, English poet and novelist (died 1985)Alan Bold Allen Freer Cambridge Book of English Verse 1939-1975 https://books.google.com/books?id=sko7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA35 4 March 1976 CUP Archive 978-0-521-09840-3 35
August 19 – Arnolt Bronnen, Austrian playwright and director (died 1959)
September 2 – D. I. Suchianu, Romanian essayist, translator, social scientist and film theorist (died 1985)
September 7 – Jacques Vaché, French writer and magazine editor (died 1919)Franklin Rosemont Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism: Including Vaché's War Letters & Other Writings https://books.google.com/books?id=O9saAQAAIAAJ 2008 Charles H. Kerr 978-0-88286-322-1 11
September 16 – Zainal Abidin Ahmad, Malayan nationalist writer (died 1973)
September 21 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (died 1925)
October 3 – Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (died 1969)Gaetana Marrone Paolo Puppa Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies https://books.google.com/books?id=d9NcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA496 26 December 2006 Routledge 978-1-135-45530-9 496
October 6 – Caroline Gordon, American novelist and critic (died 1981)William Joseph Stuckey Caroline Gordon https://books.google.com/books?id=NbmwAAAAIAAJ 1972 Twayne Publishers 9
October 17 – C. H. B. Kitchin, English novelist (died 1967)
October 20 – Alexandru Rosetti, Romanian linguist, editor and memoirist (died 1990)
October 31 – B. H. Liddell Hart, English military historian (died 1970)
November 1 – David Jones, Anglo-Welsh poet and artist (died 1974)
November 16 – Michael Arlen, Armenian novelist and short story writer (died 1956)
December 1 – Henry Williamson, English novelist (died 1977)
December 9 – Vivian de Sola Pinto, English poet, literary critic, and historian (died 1969)
December 14 – Paul Éluard, French poet (died 1952)
December 24 – Noel Streatfeild, English novelist and children's writer (died 1986)
December 28 – Carol Ryrie Brink, American novelist and children's author (died 1981)Robert Reginald Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2 Detroit Gale Research 1979 831 978-0-81031-051-3
Unknown date – Ionel Gherea, Romanian philosopher, essayist and novelist (died 1978)
Deaths
January 3 – Mary Torrans Lathrap, American author and reformer (born 1838)
January 13 – John Robert Seeley, English historian and essayist (born 1834)
January 15 – Lady Charlotte Guest, English translator of Welsh literature (born 1812)
February 16 – Camilla Dufour Crosland, English writer and poet (born 1812)
February 19 – Auguste Vacquerie, French journalist (born 1819)
February 20 – Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist, orator and writer (born 1818)Rochester (N.Y.). Council Proceedings ... https://books.google.com/books?id=mrdEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA597 1895 597
March 5 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian journalist, novelist and short story writer (born 1831)
March 15 – Cesare Cantù, Italian historian (born 1804)
March 22 – Henry Coppée, American historian and biographer (born 1821)
April 3 – Gustav Freytag, German novelist and dramatist (born 1816)
April 17 – Jorge Isaacs, Colombian writer, politician and explorer (born 1837)Twayne's World Authors Series https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8A3AAAAIAAJ 1972 Twayne Publishers 31
April 25 – Emily Thornton Charles, American newspaper founder (born 1845)Death of Emily Thornton Charles. Logansport Reporter. Logansport, Indiana. April 29, 1895, p 6 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14168474/death_of_emily_thornton_charles/ 4 October 2017 Logansport Reporter 29 April 1895 6 Newspapers.com
April 26 – Eric Stenbock, German poet (born 1858)
May 4 – Lillian Spender (née Headland), English novelist (born 1835)
May 26 – Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman historian and legal writer (born 1822)
June 27 – Sophie Adlersparre, Swedish feminist and magazine editor (born 1823)https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=5564 Sigrid Leijonhufvud K Sophie Adlersparre (f. Leijonhuvud) Svenskt biografiskt lexikon 2015-06-16
August 1 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (born 1817)
August 5 – Friedrich Engels, German socialist writer (born 1820)Radical Philosophy https://books.google.com/books?id=I7UkAQAAIAAJ 1972 Radical Philosophy Group 51
September 29 – William Grainge, English local historian (born 1818)Yorkshire Notes and Queries: Being the Antiquarian History of Yorkshire https://books.google.com/books?id=qbBgD8Ee6lsC 1908 42
October 14 – Clara Doty Bates, American author (born 1838)Christian Work: Illustrated Family Newspaper https://books.google.com/books?id=zXZPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA652 1895 652
November 4 – Eugene Field, American children's author (born 1850)Providence Public Library (R.I.) Monthly Bulletin for the Providence Public Library ... https://books.google.com/books?id=wNc9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA226 1895 Library 226
November 27 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and dramatist (born 1824)Frank Northen Magill Masterplots: Cyclopedia of world authors; seven hundred fifty three novelists, poets, playwrights from the world's fine literature https://books.google.com/books?id=zu7XAAAAMAAJ 1958 Salem Press 321
November 28 – L. S. Bevington, English anarchist poet and essayist (born 1845)
References
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