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Overview of the events of 1898 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1898 .
Events
J'accuse Zola 's letterEdition of the Polish Życie Dreyfus affair January 13 – Émile Zola 's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair , J'accuse L'Aurore
February 5–June 18 – M. P. Shiel 's "Yellow Peril " novel The Empress of the Earth , written around contemporary events in China, appears in the Pearson weekly Short Stories and in book form in July as The Yellow Danger ; it is frequently reprinted.
February 23 – Émile Zola is convicted of criminal libel in connection with J'accuse Fécondité in the suburbs.
February 25 – Première of Frank Wedekind 's Earth Spirit Erdgeist ), first of his Lulu plays , in Leipzig , in a production by Carl Heine, with Wedekind himself in the role of Dr Schön.
March 25 – O. Henry is imprisoned in Ohio Penitentiary , Columbus , for embezzlement .
May 28 – Max Beerbohm succeeds George Bernard Shaw as theatre critic of The Saturday Review (London)[1]
June – First appearance of E. W. Hornung 's fictional gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in the story "The Ides of March" in Cassell's Magazine [2]
Moscow Art Theatre stages its first season under Constantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko , including a double bill of Emilia Matthai's Greta's Happiness and Carlo Goldoni 's The Mistress of the Inn Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull by Chekhov (its Moscow première), opening on 29 December [O.S. 17 December] 1898.[3] Peadar Ua Laoghaire 's story [Séadna Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help ) begins serialization in Ireland as the first Irish language novel (published in book form 1904 ).[4] Gerald Duckworth establishes the publishers Gerald Duckworth and Company in London. Henry James 's novella In the Cage English designer C. R. Ashbee begins book production at the Essex House Press.
Joseph Wright 's English Dialect Dictionary The "Generation of '98 " writers and thinkers are active in Spain.
The term "Young Poland " is coined after a manifesto by Artur Górski , published in the Kraków newspaper Życie modernism in the Polish arts.
New books
Fiction
Children and young adults
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
April 28 – William Soutar , Scottish poet and diarist (died 1943 )February 6 – Melvin B. Tolson , African-American modernist poet (died 1966 )March 12 – Tian Han , Chinese dramatist (died 1968 )May 23 – Scott O'Dell , American children's author (died 1989 )July 22
August 23 – George Papashvily , Georgian-American sculptor and author (died 1978 )September 13 – Arthur J. Burks , American writer (died 1974 )September 15 – J. Slauerhoff , Dutch poet and novelist (died 1936 )October 9 – Tawfiq al-Hakim , Egyptian novelist and dramatist (died 1987 )October 17 – Simon Vestdijk , Dutch writer (died 1971 )November 29 – C. S. Lewis , English novelist and children's writer (died 1963 )December 27 – W. C. Sellar , English humorous writer (died 1951 )
Deaths
January 14 – Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), English scholar and children's writer (born 1832 )January 18 – Henry Liddell , English lexicographer of Greek (born 1811 )March 6 – Felice Cavallotti , Italian poet, playwright and politician (born 1842 )March 24 – George Thomas Stokes , Irish church historian (born 1843 )March 25 – James Payn , English novelist (born 1830 )March 31 – Eleanor Marx , English political writer and translator (born 1855 )May 22 – Edward Bellamy , American novelist (born 1850 )July 20 – Jean Ingelow , English poet and novelist (born 1820 )August 7 – Georg Ebers , German novelist and Egyptologist (born 1837 )August 17 – Sir William Fraser, 4th Baronet , English politician, author and book collector (born 1826 )September 9 – Stéphane Mallarmé , French Symbolist poet (born 1842 )September 20 – Theodor Fontane , German novelist and poet (born 1819 )September 29 – William Kingsford , English-born Canadian historian (born 1819 )November 29 – Ángel Ganivet , Spanish writer (born 1865 ; suicide by drowning)December 10 – William Black , Scottish novelist (born 1841 )
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