1895 in literature

List of years in literature (table)
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The year 1895 in literature involved some significant new books.

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Carlyle's House in Chelsea opens to the public.
Robert Frost marries Elinor Miriam White.
Ernest Thayer recites his poem, Casey at the Bat, at a Harvard class reunion.
The American Historical Review is published for the first time.
Pan, a German arts and literary magazine, is first published.
The first edition of the Times Atlas of the World is published at the office of The Times newspaper in London.

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 23 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand novelist (died 1982)
May 9 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet and philosopher (died 1961)
May 19 - Charles Sorley, British poet (died 1915)
June 16 - Warren Lewis, British historian, brother of C. S. Lewis and Inkling (died 1973)
July 14 - F. R. Leavis, British literary critic (died 1978)
July 24 - Robert Graves, English poet and novelist (died 1985)
September 21 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (died 1925)
October 17 - C. H. B. Kitchin, British novelist (died 1967)
October 31 - B. H. Liddell Hart, English military historian (died 1970)
November 1 - David Jones, British 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 14 - Paul Éluard, French poet (died 1952)
date unknown - Vivian de Sola Pinto, British poet, literary critic, and historian (died 1969)

January 13 - John Robert Seeley, English historian and essayist (born 1834)
January 15 - Lady Charlotte Guest, British translator of Welsh literature (born 1812)
February 20 - Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist, orator and writer (born 1818)
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 26 - Eric Stenbock, Baltic German poet (born 1858)
May 26 - Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman historian and legal writer (born 1822)
August 1 - Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (born 1817)
August 5 - Friedrich Engels, German socialist writer (born 1820)
November 4 - Eugene Field, American children's author (born 1850)
November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and dramatist (born 1824)
date unknown
- William Grainge, English historian and poet (born 1818)
- Auguste Vacquerie, French journalist (born 1819)