This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1894 .
February – Oscar Wilde 's play Salome is first published in English, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley .
February 15 – French anarchist Martial Bourdin accidentally kills himself while attempting to plant a bomb at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich , a fictionalised version of which appears in Joseph Conrad 's novel The Secret Agent (1907 ).
Early Spring – Mary Antin emigrates from White Russia (Belarus ) to the United States with her mother.
April – The Yellow Book imprint, edited by Henry Harland , begins publication by John Lane and Elkin Mathews – The Bodley Head – in London.
April 21 – George Bernard Shaw 's play Arms and the Man is premièred at the Avenue Theatre in London.[1]
May – The Scottish writer William Sharp publishes Pharais , his first novel under the pseudonym Fiona MacLeod.
June – The German novelist Hermann Hesse begins an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering at a factory in Calw .
August 15 – A. E. Waite starts to publish and edit an occult periodical, The Unknown World .
October – Lafcadio Hearn begins work as a journalist for the English-language Kobe Chronicle in Japan.
November 8 – Robert Frost 's first poem, "My Butterfly" appears in The New York Independent , which pays him $15.
December
December 22 – Claude Debussy 's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , a free interpretation of Stéphane Mallarmé 's 1876 poem, "L'Après-midi d'un faune", is premièred in Paris.
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January 1 – Aurora Nilsson , Swedish writer (died 1972 )
January 22 – Charles Langbridge Morgan , English novelist and dramatist (died 1958 )[6]
February 6 – Eric Partridge , New Zealand/British lexicographer (died 1979 )[7]
March 14 – Nichita Smochină , Transnistrian Romanian ethnographer and journalist (died 1980 )
March 17 – Paul Green , American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (died 1981 )[8]
March 23 – Mark Slonim , Russian literary historian and critic (died 1976 )[9]
April 6 – Elinor M. Brent-Dyer , English children's writer (died 1969 )[10]
April 7 – A. A. Thomson , English cricket and travel writer (died 1968 )
May 1 – Elizabeth Johanna Bosman , South African author who wrote under the pen name Marie Linde (d. 1963 )[11]
May 27
June 14 – W. W. E. Ross , Canadian geophysicist and Imagist poet (died 1966 )
June 15 – Trygve Gulbranssen , Norwegian novelist, businessman and journalist (died 1962 )
June 28 – Allardyce Nicoll , British literary scholar (died 1976 )
July 8 – Claude-Henri Grignon , Canadian novelist, journalist and politician (died 1976 )
July 9 – Phelps Putnam , American poet (died 1948 )
July 18 – Isaac Babel , Ukrainian writer (died 1940 )
July 26 – Aldous Huxley , English novelist and poet (died 1963 )[12]
July 30 – Păstorel Teodoreanu , Romanian poet and satirist (died 1964 )
August 31 – Albert Facey , Australian autobiographer (died 1982 )
September 6 – Howard Pease , American maritime adventure novelist (died 1974 )
September 19 – Rachel Field , American author and poet (died 1942 )[13]
September 23 – Momčilo Nastasijević , Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist (died 1938 )
October 4 – Frans G. Bengtsson , Swedish novelist, essayist, poet and biographer (died 1954 )
October 9 – Agnes von Krusenstjerna , Swedish writer (died 1940 )
October 14 – E. E. Cummings , American poet (died 1962 )[14]
October 18 – H. L. Davis , American fiction writer, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and poet (died 1960 )
October 26 – Eugene Jolas , American writer, literary translator and critic (died 1952 )
December 8 – James Thurber , American cartoonist and humorous writer (died 1961 )
December 26
December 31 – Hong Shen (洪深), Chinese dramatist (died 1955 )
January 7 – Sophia Alice Callahan , American Muscogee novelist and teacher (born 1868 )
February 8 – R. M. Ballantyne , Scottish novelist for youth (born 1825 )[15]
April 8
April 12 – Ludwig Pfau , German poet, journalist, and revolutionary (born 1821 )
April 14 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack , German poet, literary historian and art collector (born 1815 )[18]
April 29 – Augusta Theodosia Drane , English religious writer and biographer (born 1823 )[19]
May 6 – Fanny Murdaugh Downing , American author and poet (born 1831 )
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May 19 – Caroline M. Sawyer , American poet, writer, and editor (born 1812 )
May 20 – Edmund Yates , Scottish novelist and dramatist (born 1831 )[20]
June 5 – Edward Capern , English poet (born 1819 )[21]
July 30 – Walter Pater , English essayist, critic and novelist (born 1839 )[22]
August 6 – Otto Müller , German novelist (born 1816 )[23]
August 10 – Cynthia Roberts Gorton , American poet and author (born 1826 )[24]
August 25 – Celia Laighton Thaxter , American author (born 1835 )
October 8 – Oliver Wendell Holmes , American poet and physician (born 1809 )[25]
October 20 – James Anthony Froude , English historian, novelist and biographer (born 1818 )[26]
December 3 – Robert Louis Stevenson , Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer (born 1850 )[27]
December 9 – Mary Bell Smith , American writer, educator, social reformer (born 1818 )[28]
December 29 – Christina Rossetti , English poet (born 1830 )[29]
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^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0 .
^ "An Alpine Pass on "Ski" " . The Strand Magazine . 8 . London: 657–661. 1894.
^ Draznin, Yaffa Claire (2001). Victorian London's Middle-Class Housewife: What She Did All Day . Contributions in Women's Studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 151. ISBN 0-313-31399-7 .
^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^ Sutherland, John (2007). Bestsellers: a very short introduction . Oxford University Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-19-921489-1 .
^ The Encyclopedia Americana . Americana Corp. 1980. p. 451. ISBN 9780717201112 .
^ Serle, Geoffrey (1988) 'Partridge, Eric Honeywood (1894–1979)', Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 11, Melbourne University Press
^ Roper, John Herbert Paul Green, Playwright of the Real South, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. p. 83.
^ (in Italian) Giuseppina Giuliano, "Mark L'vovič Slonim" , Russi in Italia database entry
^ "Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894-1969)" . Literary Heritage West Midlands . Shropshire County Council . 28 October 2002. Archived from the original on 24 November 2005. Retrieved 31 January 2018 .
^ De Kock, Sita (1968). Die Bosmans van Suid-Afrika, 1707-1965 (in Afrikaans). Pretoria: Van Schaik. p. 33. OCLC 814141210 .
^ Sion, Ronald T. (2010). Aldous Huxley and the Search for Meaning: A Study of the Eleven Novels . McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-7864-4746-6 .
^ Fordyce, Rachel (1978). "Field, Rachel (Lyman)". In Kirkpatrick, D.L. (ed.). Twentieth-century Children's Writers . London: Macmillan. p. 445. ISBN 978-0-33323-414-3 .
^ Maynard Mack (1961). Modern poetry . Prentice-Hall. pp. 364–5.
^ Rennie, Neil (2004). "Ballantyne, Robert Michael (1825–1894)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/1232 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature . Merriam-Webster. 1995. p. 231 . ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6 .
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Scott, Harriet Anne ". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Schack, Adolf Friedrich, Graf von ". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 309–310.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Drane, Augusta Theodosia ". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 546.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Yates, Edmund Hodgson ". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 907–908.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Seccombe, Thomas (1901). "Capern, Edward ". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement) . London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ "Walter Pater" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
^ Franz Brümmer (1906), "Müller, Otto ", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 52, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 527–529
^ Greasley, Philip A. (8 August 2016). Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2: Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination . Indiana University Press. p. 483. ISBN 978-0-253-02116-8 .
^ "Walter Pater" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF) . The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2022-10-04 .
^ Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 907–910.
^ Goodwin, Jennie J. B.; Smith, Mary Perkins Blair-Bell (1899). In Memoriam of Mary Perkins Blair Bell and Smith, 1818-1894 . Minneapolis. pp. 1–. OCLC 11047204 . {{cite book }}
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^ Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Rossetti, Christina Georgina" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 23 (11th ed.). pp. 746–747.
^ The Age of Leo the Tenth in Italy. The Newdigate prize poem, 1894 (British Library, Historical Print Editions (March 24, 2011))
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