1898 in literature
See also: 1897 in literature, other events of 1898, 1899 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- The Armourer's Prentices - Charlotte Mary Yonge
- The Cabin - Vicente Blasco Ibanez
- The Cruise of the Cachalot - Frank T.Bullen
- David Harum - Edward Noyes Westcott
- Elizabeth and Her German Garden - Elizabeth von Arnim
- Evelyn Innes - George Moore (novelist)
- Helbeck of Bannisdale - Mary Augusta Ward
- La Cathedrale - Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Lin McLean - Owen Wister
- A Man from the North - Arnold Bennett
- The Open Boat and Other Tales - Stephen Crane
- Paris - Emile Zola
- Rough Justice - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- St. Ives - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K. Jerome
- Tales of Unrest - Joseph Conrad
- The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
- The Uncalled - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
Births
- February 6 - Melvin B. Tolson, poet
- May 23 - Scott O'Dell, children's author
- July 22 - Erich Maria Remarque (d. 1970)
- August 23 - George Papashvily, sculptor and author
- November 29 - C. S. Lewis (d. 1963)
- date unknown - W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, authors of 1066 and All That
Deaths
- January 14 - Lewis Carroll, children's author
- January 18 - Henry Liddell, co-compiler of Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, still in use by classical scholars
- March 6 - Felice Cavalotti, politican and poet
- March 24 - George Thomas Stokes, church historian
- March 31 - Eleanor Marx, political writer and translator, daughter of Karl Marx
- May 22 - Edward Bellamy, novelist
- July 20 - Jean Ingelow, poet and novelist
- August 7 - Georg Ebers, novelist and discoverer of the "Ebers manuscript"
- August 17 - Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bart., author and book collector
- September 9 - Stéphane Mallarmé, Symbolist poet
- September 20 - Theodor Fontane, novelist and poet
- September 29 - William Kingsford, historian
- December 10 - William Black, novelist