This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1894.
Children and young people
Harold Avery
The Orderly Officer
The School's Honour
R. D. Blackmore – Perlycross
Anthony Hope
The Dolly Dialogues
The Prisoner of Zenda
Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book
E. Nesbit – Miss Mischief
Talbot Baines Reed – Tom, Dick and Harry
Margaret Marshall Saunders – Beautiful Joe
Ethel Turner – Seven Little Australians
William Gillette – Too Much Johnson (adapted from Maurice Ordonneau's La Plantation Thomassin)
Martin Greif – Agnes Bernauer, der Engel von Augsburg
Sydney Grundy
A Bunch of Violets
An Old Jew
Henry Arthur Jones – The Case of Rebellious Susan
Josef Lauff – Ignez de Castro
Maurice Maeterlinck – The Death of Tintagiles
Victorien Sardou – Gismonda
George Bernard Shaw – Arms and the Man
Bliss Carman – Low Tide on Grande Pre: A Book Of Lyrics
Pierre Louÿs – Songs of Bilitis
Rainer Maria Rilke – Leben und Lieder
Edward Carpenter – Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society
Christabel Rose Coleridge – The Daughters Who Have not Revolted (essays)
Francis Darwin (with E. H. Acton) – The Practical Physiology of Plants
King Gillette – The Human Drift
Karl Marx – Das Kapital
Leo Tolstoy – The Kingdom of God Is Within You
January 1 – Aurora Nilsson, Swedish writer (died 1972)
January 22 – Charles Langbridge Morgan, English novelist and dramatist (died 1958)
March 17 – Paul Green, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (died 1981)
March 23 – Mark Slonim, Russian literary historian and critic (died 1976)
April 6 – Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, English children's writer
May 27
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French novelist and pamphleteer (died 1961)
Dashiell Hammett, American detective fiction writer (died 1961)
June 14 – W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and Imagist poet (died 1966)
June 15 – Trygve Gulbranssen, Norwegian novelist, businessman and journalist (died 1962)
July 8 – Claude-Henri Grignon, Canadian novelist, journalist and politician (died 1976)
July 9 – Phelps Putnam, American poet (died 1948)
July 26 – Aldous Huxley, English novelist and poet (died 1963)
July 30 – Păstorel Teodoreanu, Romanian poet and satirist (died 1964)
August 31 – Albert Facey, Australian autobiographer (died 1982)
September 6 – Howard Pease, American maritime adventure novelist (died 1974)
September 23 – Momčilo Nastasijević, Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist (died 1938)
October 4 – Frans G. Bengtsson, Swedish novelist, essayist, poet and biographer (died 1954)
October 9 – Agnes von Krusenstjerna, Swedish writer (died 1940)
October 14 – E. E. Cummings, American poet (died 1962)
October 18 – H. L. Davis, American fiction writer, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and poet (died 1960)
October 26 – Eugene Jolas, American writer, literary translator and critic (died 1952)
December 8 – James Thurber, American cartoonist and humorous writer (died 1961)
December 26
Håkon Evjenth, Norwegian children's writer (died 1951)
Jean Toomer (Nathan Eugene Pinchback Toomer), African American writer (died 1967)
December 31 – Hong Shen (洪深), Chinese dramatist (died 1955)
February 8 – R. M. Ballantyne, Scottish novelist for youth (born 1825)
April 8 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Bankim Chatterjee), Bengali writer and poet (born 1838)
April 12 – Ludwig Pfau, German poet, journalist, and revolutionary (born 1821)
April 14 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German poet, literary historian and art collector (born 1815)
May 7 – Marie Sophie Schwartz, Swedish novelist (died 1875)
May 20 – Edmund Yates, Scottish novelist and dramatist (born 1831)
June 5 – Edward Capern, English poet (born 1819)
July 30 – Walter Pater, English essayist, critic and novelist (born 1839)
August 6 – Otto Müller, German novelist (born 1816)
September 29 – Christina Rossetti, English poet (born 1830)
October 8 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, American poet and physician (born 1809)
October 20 – James Anthony Froude, English historian, novelist and biographer (born 1818)
December 3 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer (born 1850)
Unknown dates
Giuseppe Borrello, Sicilian poet (born 1820)
Nabagopal Mitra, Indian playwright, poet and essayist (born c. 1840)
Newdigate Prize – Frank Taylor
February 15 – French anarchist Martial Bourdin accidentally kills himself while attempting to plant a bomb at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, a fictionalised version of which appears in Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent (1907).
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