1894
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"His diagnosis of the evils of his time is as searching as it is fearless, and yet exhibiting neither the pessimism of Ibsen nor the moral squalor of Zola, with his gospel of sordid facts unrelieved by any spiritual aspiration. In his faculty of seizing and ..." The Gentleman's Magazine, 1894 "Lord Alfred Douglas's poem "Two Loves" (1894), which was used against Oscar Wilde at the latter's trial, ends with the famous line that refers to homosexuality as "the love that dare not speak its name".--Sholem Stein |
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1894 was the 894th year of the 2nd millennium, the 94th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1890s decade.
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Art and culture
- The Yellow Book, first issue
- The Songs of Bilitis by Pierre Louÿs
- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy
- Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp is completed
- Le Pé (l'amputation du Gruyere), a photo of the feet and the lower legs of Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione, taken by Pierre-Louis Pierson
- Geschichte der grotesken Satire by Heinrich Schneegans
- The Mature Age by Camille Claudel
- Das Liebeskonzil by Oskar Panizza
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Births
- Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956)
- Jean Renoir (1894 - 1979)
- Edogawa Rampo (1894 - 1965)
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894 - 1961)
- Josef von Sternberg (1894 - 1969)
- Ada "Bricktop" Smith (1894 — 1983)
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Deaths
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Walter Pater (1839 - 1894)
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