1898 in literature

The year 1898 in literature involved some significant new books.

New books

 * Elizabeth von Arnim - Elizabeth and Her German Garden
 * F. W. Bain - A Digit of the Moon
 * L. Frank Baum - By the Candelabra's Glare
 * Arnold Bennett - A Man from the North
 * Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Rough Justice
 * Ralph Connor - Black Rock
 * Joseph Conrad - Tales of Unrest
 * Alexander Craig - Ionia
 * Stephen Crane - The Open Boat and Other Tales
 * Paul Laurence Dunbar - The Uncalled
 * J. Meade Falkner - Moonfleet
 * John Fox, Jr. - The Kentuckians
 * Kenneth Grahame - Dream Days
 * Anthony Hope - Rupert of Hentzau
 * Joris-Karl Huysmans - La Cathedrale
 * Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - The Cabin
 * Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
 * Jerome K. Jerome - The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
 * Pierre Louÿs - La Femme et le pantin
 * Charles Major - When Knighthood Was in Flower
 * George Moore -Evelyn Innes
 * Emilio Salgari - The Black Corsair
 * Jules Verne - The Mighty Orinoco
 * Mary Augusta Ward - Helbeck of Bannisdale
 * H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds
 * Edward Noyes Westcott - David Harum
 * Owen Wister - Lin McLean
 * Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Armourer's Prentices
 * Emile Zola - Paris

New drama

 * Gabriele D'Annunzio - Sogno di un Pomeriggio d' Autunno
 * George Bernard Shaw - Arms and the Man

Non-fiction

 * John F. T. Jane - Jane's Fighting Ships
 * Liliʻuokalani - Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

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
 * September 13 - Arthur J. Burks (d. 1974)
 * November 29 - C. S. Lewis (d. 1963)
 * December 27 - W. C. Sellar, co-author 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 Cavallotti, politician 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 Fraser, 4th Baronet, politician, 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

Awards

 * Newdigate prize - John Buchan