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| 1895 |
| | | Oscar Wilde loses a libel case that he has brought against the marquess of Queensberry for describing him as a sodomite | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Oscar Wilde is sent to Reading Gaol to serve a two-year sentence with hard labour after being convicted of homosexuality | |
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| 1895 |
| | | H.G. Wells publishes The Time Machine, a story about a Time Traveller whose first stop on his journey is the year 802701 | |
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| 1896 |
| | | English poet A.E. Housman publishes his first collection, A Shropshire Lad | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Somerset Maugham publishes his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, based on the London life he has observed as a medical student | |
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| 1897 |
| | | English author Bram Stoker publishes Dracula, his gothic tale of vampirism in Transylvania | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Henry James moves from London to Lamb House in Rye, Sussex, which remains his home for the rest of his life | |
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| 1898 |
| | | H.G. Wells publishes his science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds, in which Martians arrive in a rocket to invade earth | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Henry James publishes The Turn of the Screw in a collection of short stories | |
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| 1899 |
| | | E. Nesbit publishes The Story of the Treasure Seekers, introducing the Bastable family who feature in several of her books for children | |
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