1897 in Literature - Deaths

Deaths

  • March 2 - Guillermo Prieto, Mexican novelist, short-story writer, poet and journalist, 79
  • March 7 - Harriet Ann Jacobs, African-American writer, 84
  • March 11 - Henry Drummond, evangelist and writer on natural history, 45 (cancer)
  • April 26 - Manonmaniam Sundaram Pillai, Indian scholar and dramatist, 42
  • June 25 - Margaret Oliphant, novelist, 69
  • July 6 - Henri Meilhac, French dramatist and opera librettist, 66
  • July 28 - Étienne Vacherot, philosophical writer, 87
  • August 2 - Adam Asnyk, Polish poet and dramatist, 58
  • August 5 - James Hammond Trumbull, philologist, 75
  • August 8 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian, 79
  • August 25 - Léon Gautier, French historian, 65
  • September 17 - Ferenc Pulszky, Hungarian political writer, 82
  • October 23 - Jessie Catherine Couvreur, Australian novelist, 48
  • October 24 - Francis Turner Palgrave, anthologist, 73
  • December 17 - Alphonse Daudet, French novelist, 57 (syphilis)

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