This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1898.
For an overview of world literature see 1898 in literature.
See also: 1897 in Australian literature, 1898 in Australia, 1899 in Australian literature.
Louis Becke – The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Island, with Walter James Jeffrey
Guy Boothby
Across the World for a Wife
Pharos the Egyptian
Ada Cambridge – Materfamilias
Mary Gaunt – Deadman's: An Australian Story
Gertrude Hart – Clouds That Pass
Louise Mack – Girls Together
Rosa Praed – The Scourge-Stick
Douglas Sladen – Trincolox
Ethel Turner – The Camp at Wandinong
Louis Becke – Rodman the Boatsteerer and Other Stories
Rolf Boldrewood – A Romance of Canvas Town and Other Stories
Guy Boothby – Billy Binks, Hero, and Other Stories
Albert Dorrington – "Castro's Last Sacrament"
Edward Dyson
Below and On Top
"The Conquering Bush"
Henry Lawson – "Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster"
Ethel Mills – "A Box of Dead Roses"
K. Langloh Parker – More Australian Legendary Tales (edited)
Roderic Quinn – "A Stripe for Trooper Casey"
Steele Rudd – "On Our Selection"
E. J. Brady
"The Great Grey Water"
"Lost and Given Over"
Christopher Brennan
"The Forest of Night: 1898-1902: The Twilight of Disquietude: 36"
"Towards the Source : 1894-97 : 25"
Victor J. Daley
At Dawn and Dusk
"Correggio Jones"
Edward Dyson – "Men of Australia"
George Essex Evans – Loraine and Other Verses
Ernest Favenc – "The Guard of the Northern Strait: A Song of Queensland"
W. T. Goodge
"Daley's Dorg Wattle"
"Mulligan's Shanty"
Henry Lawson – "Sydney-Side"
Marion Miller Knowles – Songs from the Hills
Breaker Morant – "Kitty's Broom"
Will H. Ogilvie
"Abandoned Selections"
"Bowmont Water"
Fair Girls and Gray Horses: With Other Verses
A. B. Paterson
"Saltbush Bill's Gamecock"
"T.Y.S.O.N."
Roderic Quinn
"The Camp Within the West"
"The Fisher"
"The Hidden Tide"
Thomas E. Spencer – "How M'Dougal Topped the Score"
David Carnegie – Spinifex and Sand : A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1898 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
7 February – Jean Curlewis, poet and writer for children (died 1930)
21 February – Llewellyn Lucas, poet (died 1967)
17 July – Richard Harry Graves, poet and novelist (died 1971)
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1898 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
28 March – George Robertson, bookseller (born 1825)
