1899 In Literature

Events

• Anton Chekov's new drama, Uncle Vanya

New books

• The Awakening - Kate Chopin
• Blix - Frank Norris
• The Conjure Woman - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
• demoiselle Cloque - Ren Boylesve
• Fecondite - Emile Zola
• Foes in law - Rhoda Broughton
• Foma Gordyeeff - Maxim Gorky
• The Game and the Candle - Rhoda Broughton
• The Golden Canon - G.A. Henty
• His Darling Sin - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• McTeague - Frank Norris
• The Man with the Twisted Lip - Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Message to Garcia - Elbert Hubbard
• Old Chester Tales - Margaret Deland
• Red Pottage - Mary Cholmondeley
• Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy
• The School and Society - John Dewey
• La terre qui meurt - Ren Bazin
• To London Town - Arthur Morrison
• Dom Casmurro - Machado de Assis

Births

• April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, novelist (d. 1977)
• July 21 - Ernest Hemingway, writer (d. 1961)
• December 16 - Noel Coward, playwright (d. 1973)

Deaths

• July 18 - Horatio Alger, Jr.
• August 29 - Catharine Parr Traill, English-born author of "Canadiana"
• October 25 - Grant Allen, author

Awards

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