1894 in literature
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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