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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1895. ==Events== * January–May - Publication of H. G. Wells' first "scientific romance", the novella ''The Time Machine'', serially in ''The New Review'' (London). The first book editions are published by Henry Holt and Company in New York on May 7 and by Heinemann in London on May 29. * January 3 - Première of Oscar Wilde's comedy ''An Ideal Husband'' at the Haymarket Theatre in London. * January 5 * * Première of Henry James's historical drama ''Guy Domville'' at St James's Theatre in London is booed. * * A. E. Waite ceases to publish and edit his own occult periodical ''The Unknown World''. * January 12 - The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is registered in England and begins acquiring properties and making them accessible to the public. Carlyle's House in Chelsea is one of the first to be opened. * February - The monthly ''The Bookman'' (New York) is first published by Dodd, Mead and Company under the editorship of Harry Thurston Peck and publishes the first bestseller list, which is headed by Frank R. Stockton's novel ''The Adventures of Captain Horn''. * February 14 - Première of Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest'', at St. James' Theatre, London. * February 18 - The Marquess of Queensberry (father of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover), leaves his calling card at the Albemarle Club in London, inscribed: "For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite", i.e. a sodomite, inducing Wilde to charge him with criminal libel. In a meeting on March 25 at the Café Royal in London, Frank Harris and George Bernard Shaw fail to dissuade Wilde from proceeding with the action. * April/May - ''Pan'', a German arts and literary magazine, is first published, in Berlin. * April 3–5 - Libel case of ''Wilde v Queensberry'' at the Old Bailey in London: Queensberry is acquitted. Evidence of Wilde's homosexual relationships with young men renders him liable to criminal prosecution under the Labouchere Amendment, while the Libel Act 1843 renders him legally liable for the considerable expenses Queensberry has incurred in his defence, leaving Wilde penniless. * April 6 - Oscar Wilde is arrested at the Cadogan Hotel, London (in the company of Robbie Ross), for "unlawfully committing acts of gross indecency with certain male persons" and detained on remand in Holloway Prison. * April 29 - Joseph Conrad's novel ''Almayer's Folly'' is published in London by T. Fisher Unwin, Conrad's first published work (following retirement from his career at sea) and the first appearance of his pseudonym. * May 23 - Representatives of the Astor Library and Lenox Library agree to merge and form the New York Public Library. * May 25 * * Criminal case of ''Regina v. Wilde'': After a retrial at the Old Bailey, Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and is taken to Pentonville Prison to begin his two years' sentence of hard labour. On November 21 he is transferred to Reading Gaol. * * Henry Irving becomes the first actor invested with a knighthood. * October * * ''The American Historical Review'' is published for the first time.〔(JSTOR: All issues of The American Historical Review. )〕 * * Stephen Crane's American Civil War novel ''The Red Badge of Courage'' is first published in (abridged) book format by D. Appleton & Company in New York. * * Rudyard Kipling publishes the story "Mowgli Leaves the Jungle Forever" in ''The Cosmopolitan'' illustrated magazine in the United States, concluding the series collected in ''The Second Jungle Book'' published in England in November. * November 1 - Thomas Hardy's last completed novel, ''Jude the Obscure'' is published by Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co. in London (dated 1896) on completion of an expurgated serialization under the title ''Hearts Insurgent'' in ''Harper's Magazine''. It receives strong criticism on moral grounds; Hardy later claims that Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield, burned a copy.〔Slack, Robert C. ''Nineteenth-Century Fiction'' 11(4) (March 1957) pp. 261–275.〕 * December 19 - Robert Frost marries Elinor Miriam White at Lawrence, Massachusetts. * George du Maurier's novel ''Trilby'', serialized in 1894, is first published in book form. It is also adapted as a play, ''Trilby'', first in the United States (opening on March 4 at the Boston Museum (theatre) with a New York première on April 15 at the Garden Theatre) with Wilton Lackaye as Svengali and Virginia Harned in the title rôle; then in England (opening on September 7 at the Theatre Royal, Manchester with a London première on October 30 at the Haymarket Theatre) with Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Dorothea Baird. The stage version is so successful that Tree is able to use the profits to build Her Majesty's Theatre; it also introduces the trilby hat. * William Poel establishes the Elizabethan Stage Society to promote productions of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the performance style of the English Renaissance theatre. * Abdallah bin Hemedi bin Ali Ajjemy's ''Habari za Wakilindi'' is the first Swahili novel. * Publication in Boston (U.S.) of Castello Holford's utopian novel ''Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World'', the first full-length alternate history in English. * Ernest Thayer recites ''Casey at the Bat'' at a Harvard class reunion, resolving the "mystery" of the poem's authorship. * The first edition of the ''Times Atlas of the World'' is published at the office of ''The Times'' newspaper in London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1895 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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