Editing 1917 in literature (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 15]] – [[William De Morgan]], English novelist and potter (born [[1839 in literature|1839]])
*[[January 18]] – [[Andrew Murray (minister)|Andrew Murray]], South African minister, writer and teacher (born [[1828 in literature|1828]])<ref>{{cite book|author=J. Gordon Melton|title=Encyclopedia of Protestantism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bW3sXBjnokkC&pg=PA390|year=2005|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-6983-5|pages=390|access-date=2020-11-13|archive-date=2024-05-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240504061202/https://books.google.com/books?id=bW3sXBjnokkC&pg=PA390#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[January 20]] – [[Agnes Leonard Hill]], American author, journalist, enangelist, social reformer (born [[1842 in literature|1842]])
*February – [[Emma Pike Ewing]], American author and educator (born [[1838 in literature|1838]])
*[[February 16]] – [[Octave Mirbeau]], French novelist and critic (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])
*[[April 3]] – [[Arthur Graeme West]], English war poet and military writer (killed in action, born [[1891 in literature|1891]])
*[[April 9]]
**[[Edward Thomas (poet)|Edward Thomas]], British poet and prose writer (killed in action, born [[1878 in literature|1878]])<ref>{{Cite book |authorlink=Matthew Hollis |last=Hollis |first=Matthew |year=2011 |title=[[Now All Roads Lead to France]]: The Last Years of Edward Thomas|location=London |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571-24598-7}}</ref>
**[[R. E. Vernède]], English war poet (killed in action, born [[1875 in literature|1875]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Janet S. K. Watson|title=Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2lngjC7hKcAC&pg=PA43|date=19 February 2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-83153-6|pages=43|access-date=13 November 2020|archive-date=4 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060930/https://books.google.com/books?id=2lngjC7hKcAC&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[April 14]] – [[L. L. Zamenhof]], Polish creator of Esperanto (born [[1859 in literature|1859]])
*[[April 17]] – [[Jane Barlow]], Irish novelist and poet (born [[1856 in literature|1856]])
*[[April 21]] – [[F. C. Burnand]], English dramatist and editor (born [[1836 in literature|1836]])<ref>Stedman, Jane W. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32183 "Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley (1836–1917)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305121147/http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32183 |date=2016-03-05 }}, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, September 2004, accessed 8 June 2014, {{doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/32183}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref>
*[[May 13]] – [[Gustav Jäger (naturalist)|Gustav Jaeger]], German naturalist (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])
*June (date unknown) - [[Katharine Sarah Macquoid]], British novelist and travel writer (born [[1824 in literature|1824]])
*[[June 1]] – [[Joseph Ashby-Sterry]], English poet and comic writer (born 1836 or 1838)
*[[June 18]] – [[Titu Maiorescu]], Romanian culture critic, philosopher, and politician (born [[1840 in literature|1840]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Great Britain and the East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QMJCAQAAMAAJ|year=1917|page=189|access-date=2021-01-08|archive-date=2024-05-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060928/https://books.google.com/books?id=QMJCAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[July 31]]
**[[Francis Ledwidge]], English war poet (killed in action, born [[1887 in literature|1887]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/101111 |title=Casualty details—Ledwidge, Francis Edward |website=[[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]] |access-date=19 February 2010 |archive-date=4 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060937/https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/101111/francis-edward-ledwidge/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
**[[Hedd Wyn]], Welsh-language poet (killed in action, born [[1887 in literature|1887]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=3790 |publisher=National Library of Wales |title=Manuscripts: Yr Arwr, Hedd Wyn |accessdate=2013-02-24 |archive-date=2013-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430045112/http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=3790 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[August 15]] – [[Martha Capps Oliver]], American poet and hymnwriter (born [[1845 in literature|1845]])<ref name="FamilySearch">{{cite web |title=Martha W. Capps 27 August 1845 – 15 August 1917 • K637-F1B |url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K637-F1B |website=ident.familysearch.org |access-date=17 July 2022 |archive-date=19 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719171131/https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K637-F1B |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[September 28]] – [[T. E. Hulme]], English critic (killed in action, born [[1883 in literature|1883]])
*[[October 16]] – [[Walter Flex]], German author (died of wounds, born [[1887 in literature|1887]])
*[[November 15]] – [[Émile Durkheim]], French sociologist (born [[1858 in literature|1858]])
*[[November 16]] – [[Georges de Peyrebrune]], French novelist (born [[1841 in literature|1841]])<ref>Nelly Sanchez, ''Georges de Peyrebrune : De la Société des gens de lettres au jury du prix Vie Heureuse'', Classiques Garnier, "Correspondances et Mémoires", 2016, 177 pages</ref>
*[[November 18]] – [[Adrien Bertrand]], French novelist (died of wounds, born [[1888 in literature|1888]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cross |first=Tim |title=The Lost Voices of World War I |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |location=London |year=1988 |isbn=0-7475-4276-7}}</ref>
*[[December 27]] – [[George Diamandy]], Romanian journalist, dramatist, and political figure (angina, born [[1867 in literature|1867]])