1895 in literature
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See also: 1894 in literature, other events of 1895, 1896 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Oscar Wilde introduces his new drama, The Importance of Being Earnest
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New books
- Almayer's Folly - Joseph Conrad
- The Altar of the Dead - Henry James
- The British Barbarians - Grant Allen
- The Brushwood Boy - Rudyard Kipling
- Chronicles of Martin Hewitt - Arthur Morrison
- The Coming of Theodora - Eliza Orne White
- En Route - Joris-Karl Huysmans
- I misteri della jungla nera - Emilio Salgari
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Lilith - George MacDonald
- Master and Man - Leo Tolstoy
- The Queen in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
- Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
- The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
- Rose of Dutcher's Coolly - Hamlin Garland
- Scylla or Charybdis? - Rhoda Broughton
- The Second Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
- Sons of Fire - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- The Sorrows of Satan - Marie Corelli
- The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
- The Woman Who Did - Grant Allen
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Births
- February 28 - Marcel Pagnol, novelist
- March 29 - Ernst Jünger, author (+ 1998)
- April 23 - Ngaio Marsh, novelist
- May 9 - Lucian Blaga, poet and philosopher
- May 19 - Charles Sorley, war poet (d. 1915)
- June 16 - Warren Lewis, historian, brother of C. S. Lewis and Inkling
- July 14 - F. R. Leavis, critic
- July 24 - Robert Graves, writer (+ 1985)
- September 21 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
- October 17 - C. H. B. Kitchin, novelist
- October 31 - Basil Liddell Hart, military historian (d. 1970)
- November 1 - David Jones, poet and artist
- November 16 - Michael Arlen, novelist and short story writer (d. 1956)
- December 1 - Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter author
- December 14 - Paul Éluard, Surrealist poet
- date unknown - Vivian de Sola Pinto, poet, memoirist, historian, etc.
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Deaths
- January 15 - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion
- April 3 - Gustav Freytag, novelist and dramatist
- August 5 - Friedrich Engels, socialist writer
- November 4 - Eugene Field, children's author
- November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils
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