1894 in literature

The year 1893 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * André Gide begins his travels in North Africa.
 * Jerome K. Jerome founds the magazine To-Day.

New books

 * Byron A. Brooks - Earth Revisited
 * Rhoda Broughton - A Beginner
 * Hall Caine - Cap'n Davey's Honeymoon
 * Mary Cholmondeley - Diana Tempest
 * Arthur Conan Doyle - The Refugees
 * Marie Corelli - Barabbas
 * Stephen Crane - Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (self-published in 1893, published as a book in 1896)
 * Anatole France - At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque
 * Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Jane Field
 * George Gissing - The Odd Women
 * Sarah Grand - The Heavenly Twins
 * H. Rider Haggard - Montezuma's Daughter
 * Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant - Unveiling a Parallel
 * Henry Olerich - A Cityless and Countryless World
 * Bolesław Prus - The New Woman (Emancypantki)
 * Addison Peale Russell - Sub-Coelum
 * Robert Louis Stevenson - Catriona
 * Ivan Vazov - Under the Yoke
 * Jules Verne - The Castle of the Carpathians
 * Claudius Bombarnac
 * Foundling Mick
 * Lew Wallace - The Prince of India or Why Constantinople Fell
 * Emile Zola - Le Docteur Pascal

New drama

 * Herman Heijermans - Dora Kremer
 * Maurice Maeterlinck - Pelléas et Mélisande
 * Oscar Wilde - A Woman of No Importance

Poetry

 * Gabriele D'Annunzio - Odi Navali
 * Eric Stenbock - The shadow of death : poems, songs, and sonnets

Non-fiction

 * Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford, 1st edition
 * Henry James - Essays in London and Elsewhere

Births

 * January - Maria Jolas, literary publisher (d. 1987)
 * January 13 - Clark Ashton Smith, poet and short story writer (d. 1961)
 * March 18 - Wilfred Owen, war poet (d. 1918)
 * April 9 - Victor Gollancz, publisher (d. 1967)
 * June 13 - Dorothy L. Sayers, author (d. 1957)
 * August 22 - Dorothy Parker, poet, journalist and wit (d. 1967)
 * October 15 - Saunders Lewis, poet, dramatist and critic (d. 1985)
 * November 14 - Carlo Emilio Gadda, author (d. 1973)

Deaths

 * April 19 - John Addington Symonds, poet and essayist (b. 1840)
 * July 6 - Guy de Maupassant, novelist and short story writer (b. 1850)
 * November 12 - Baroness Tautphoeus, novelist (b. 1807)