She returned home in 1896 following her father's request that she come home to nurse her mother, who died three years later in 1899.

Between 1899 and 1905, she spent $ 3 million on a grand construction scheme building lavish memorials to the Stanford family, while university faculty and self-supporting students were living in poverty.

In between tours Sarah took over the lease of the Théâtre de la Renaissance, which she ran as producer-director-star from 1893 to 1899.

In 1899, when the Variations were being finished, Elgar wrote to Lady Mary Lygon to ask permission to use her initials, but as she and her brother were on the point of leaving for Australia ( he had been appointed Governor of New South Wales ) and there was not time for a reply Elgar used "***" instead.

* Enterprise, was an uncommissioned tugboat that was in service at Portsmouth Dockyard from 1899 to 1919 when she was renamed Emprise.

During the season 1899 – 1900 she made her mezzo-soprano operatic debut at Nantes.

: In February 13, 1899, she went on a typical lecture tour — leaving Chicago on February 13, she spoke at Wells College in Aurora, New York on the 14th ; at Auburn Seminary the next day ; at Wells again on the 16th ; then to New York for a quick stopover ; then to Boston where she made two appearances at woman's clubs on the 18th ; two more appearances on Sunday ; on to the University of Vermont on Monday ; back to Boston for two more appearance on Tuesday ; two more on Wednesday, and two on Thursday ; then she was off to Meadville, Pennsylvania ; to Harrisburg, Richmond, Virginia, and Columbia, South Carolina, before returning home.

According to Dressler's testimony, she married Hoeppert in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1899, although Kennedy puts the marriage date as May 6, 1894, and a divorce early in 1896.

Returning to England in 1899 ( the year her father died ), she became a theatrical designer for a miniature theatre and continued to work as an illustrator.

In the period 1914-1916 she lived in a cave in Sikkim, near the Tibetan border, learning spirituality, together with the young ( born 1899 ) Sikkimese monk Aphur Yongden, who became her lifelong traveling companion, and whom she would adopt later.

In 1899 she took a position at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, where she taught music to the children and conducted debates on the treatment of Native Americans.

* HMS Africa was to have been a Drake class cruiser but she was renamed in 1899, before being launched in 1901.

After Mr. Daly's death in 1899 she came under Charles Frohman's management and later became a member of Annie Russell's company.

His wife Bettie became ill while he was in Nicaragua and she died shortly after his return, on November 20, 1899.

In successive years from 1895 to 1899 she stayed in Cimiez in the hills above Nice.

She returned to Russia in 1899, at which time she met Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov, a. k. a. Vladimir Lenin.

In 1899 Carr traveled to London where she studied at the Westminster School of Art.

In 1899 she earned her driving licence.

In 1898 she began attending Mary Institute, but switched rapidly to Hosmer Hall in 1899, where she finished in 1903.

As a philosopher, Ernst Haeckel wrote Die Welträtsel ( 1895 – 1899, in English, The Riddle of the Universe, 1901 ), the genesis for the term " world riddle " ( Welträtsel ); and Freedom in Science and Teaching to support teaching evolution.

Not all his scientific romances ended in a happy Utopia, and in fact, Wells also wrote a dystopian novel, When the Sleeper Wakes ( 1899, rewritten as The Sleeper Awakes, 1910 ), which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers.

Sijthoff, who rose to prominence in the trade of translated books, wrote a letter in 1899 to Queen Wilhelmina regarding his opposition to becoming a signatory to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.

Holst also wrote an orchestral Walt Whitman Overture in 1899, which was given a world premiere recording by the Munich Symphony Orchestra, as well as a recording by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

In Bushido ( 1899 ), Inazō wrote:

James met the 27-year-old Andersen in Rome in 1899, when James was 56, and wrote letters to Andersen that are intensely emotional: " I hold you, dearest boy, in my innermost love, & count on your feeling me — in every throb of your soul ".

* Jorge Luis Borges ( 1899 – 1986 ), the Argentine writer, wrote an acclaimed essay on Qin Shi Huang, " The Wall and the Books " ("") in the 1952 collection Other Inquisitions ().

Ernest Hardy wrote in his history of the college in 1899 that it had been becoming " increasingly evident for years ... that the exclusive connection with Wales was ruining the college as a place of education.

Strauss also wrote an opera, Ritter Pázmán, and was in the middle of composing a ballet, Aschenbrödel, when he died in 1899.

* The Polish composer Jan Maklakiewicz ( 1899 – 1954 ) wrote the ballet in three scenes Cagliostro w Warszawie which premiered in 1938.

In 1899 he wrote in the United Irishman:

During the succeeding 10 years, he wrote the six works which are ascribed to him and were published under his name by Pierre Mandonnet in 1899.

* Louis Adamic, 1899 – 1951 Slovenian-American novelist and journalist who wrote about American minorities and immigrants.

Freud wrote to his friend Wilhelm Fliess in 1899: ' Anna has become downright beautiful through naughtiness '.

In 1899 he wrote a short notice in favour of monarchy, " Dictateur et roi " (" Dictator and King "), and then in 1900 his " Enquête sur la monarchie " ( Investigations on Monarchy ), published in the Legitimist mouthpiece La Gazette de France, which made him famous.

In 1899, Flinders Petrie wrote: If this were a new religion, invented to satisfy our modern scientific conceptions, we could not find a flaw in the correctness of this view of the energy of the solar system.

* Apolinario Mabini – a Filipino political philosopher and revolutionary who wrote a constitutional plan for the First Philippine Republic, and served as its first Prime Minister in 1899.

Vivekananda wrote a preface and a translation of the Imitation in 1899.

The dramatist and actor Micheál MacLiammóir ( 1899 – 1978 ) included many poetic verses he wrote in the Irish-language in his works.

He also wrote a book titled Die Voraussetzungen des Sozialismus und die Aufgaben der Sozialdemokratie (" The Prerequisites for Socialism and the Tasks of Social Democracy ") in 1899.

Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing wrote in 1899:

Upon Harriman's death in 1909, naturalist John Muir, who had joined him on his 1899 Alaska expedition, wrote in his eulogy of Harriman, " In almost every way, he was a man to admire.

3 p 197 tr W S Hough, London 1899 ) wrote:

Amery later edited and largely wrote The Times History of the South African War ( seven volumes ; 1899 – 1909 ).