1895 in literature

The year 1895 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * 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.

New books

 * Grant Allen - The British Barbarians
 * The Woman Who Did
 * John Kendrick Bangs - A House-Boat on the Styx
 * Rhoda Broughton - Scylla or Charybdis?
 * Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Sons of Fire
 * Robert W. Chambers - The King in Yellow
 * Joseph Conrad - Almayer's Folly
 * Marie Corelli - The Sorrows of Satan
 * Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
 * Ménie Muriel Dowie - Gallia
 * J. Meade Falkner - The Lost Stradivarius
 * G. E. Farrow - The Wallypug of Why
 * Antonio Fogazzaro - Piccolo mondo antico
 * Hamlin Garland - Rose of Dutcher's Coolly
 * George Gissing -
 * Eve's Ransom
 * The Paying Guest
 * Sleeping Fires
 * Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
 * Castello Holford - Aristopia
 * Joris-Karl Huysmans - En Route
 * Henry James - Terminations
 * Rudyard Kipling - The Brushwood Boy
 * The Second Jungle Book
 * George MacDonald - Lilith
 * George Meredith - The Amazing Marriage
 * Arthur Morrison - Chronicles of Martin Hewitt
 * Eliza Orne White - The Coming of Theodora
 * Gustavus W. Pope - Journey to Venus
 * Bolesław Prus - Pharaoh
 * Emilio Salgari - I misteri della jungla nera
 * Henryk Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis
 * Leo Tolstoy - Master and Man
 * Jules Verne - Propeller Island
 * H. G. Wells - The Time Machine

New drama

 * Maurice Maeterlinck - Interior (first production)
 * Jules Renard - La demande
 * Frank Wedekind - Earth Spirit
 * Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest

Poetry

 * Giovanni Marradi - Ballati moderne

Births

 * February 14 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher (d. 1973)
 * February 28 - Marcel Pagnol, French novelist (d. 1974)
 * March 29 - Ernst Jünger, German novelist (d. 1998)
 * April 23 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand novelist (d. 1982)
 * May 9 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet and philosopher (d. 1961)
 * May 19 - Charles Sorley, British poet (d. 1915)
 * June 16 - Warren Lewis, British historian, brother of C. S. Lewis and Inkling (d. 1973)
 * July 14 - F. R. Leavis, British literary critic (d. 1978)
 * July 24 - Robert Graves, English poet and novelist (d. 1985)
 * September 21 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
 * October 17 - C. H. B. Kitchin, British novelist (d. 1967)
 * October 31 - B. H. Liddell Hart, English military historian (d. 1970)
 * November 1 - David Jones, British poet and artist (d. 1974)
 * November 16 - Michael Arlen, Armenian novelist and short story writer (d. 1956)
 * December 1 - Henry Williamson, English novelist (d. 1977)
 * December 14 - Paul Éluard, French poet (d. 1952)
 * date unknown - Vivian de Sola Pinto, British poet, literary critic, and historian (d. 1969)

Deaths

 * January 13 - John Robert Seeley, English historian and essayist (b. 1834)
 * January 15 - Lady Charlotte Guest, British translator of Welsh literature (b. 1812)
 * February 20 - Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist, orator and writer (b. 1818)
 * March 5 - Nikolai Leskov, Russian journalist, novelist and short story writer (b. 1831)
 * March 15 - Cesare Cantù, Italian historian (b. 1804)
 * March 22 - Henry Coppée, American historian and biographer (b. 1821)
 * April 3 - Gustav Freytag, German novelist and dramatist (b. 1816)
 * April 26 - Eric Stenbock, Baltic German poet (b. 1858)
 * May 26 - Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman historian and legal writer (b. 1822)
 * August 1 - Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (b. 1817)
 * August 5 - Friedrich Engels, German socialist writer (b. 1820)
 * November 4 - Eugene Field, American children's author (b. 1850)
 * November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and dramatist (b. 1824)
 * date unknown
 * William Grainge, English historian and poet (b. 1818)
 * Auguste Vacquerie, French journalist (b. 1819)