The year 1898 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
New books
New drama
Non-fiction
Births
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
|
