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Overview of the events of 1905 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1905 .
Events
January–September –
L. Frank Baum 's
Animal Fairy Tales appear in The Delineator magazine.
January 5 – Baroness
Emma Orczy 's play
The Scarlet Pimpernel , adapted by
Julia Neilson and
Fred Terry , who play the leads, makes its London debut at the
New Theatre , followed shortly by publication of the novel.
[1]
January 16 –
Neil Munro begins publishing his
Vital Spark stories in the Glasgow Evening News .
February –
Upton Sinclair 's novel
The Jungle begins serialization in the American socialist newspaper
Appeal to Reason .
[2]
May 10 – The first stage performance in England of
Oscar Wilde 's tragedy
Salome (the original version having been banned in 1892) takes place privately at the New Stage Club of the Bijou Theatre in Archer Street, London, with Millicent Murby in the title role, directed by
Florence Farr . The author died in 1900.
[3]
July –
Beatrix Potter becomes engaged to her editor
Norman Warne , but on
August 25 he dies unexpectedly of
pernicious anemia . Soon after she completes the purchase of a
Lake District home,
Hill Top .
July 15 – Popular fictional gentleman thief
Arsène Lupin is introduced by
Maurice Leblanc in the first of a series of
short stories serialized in the French magazine
Je sais tout , "The Arrest of Arsène Lupin".
October 13 – The English
actor-manager Sir
Henry Irving collapses in his hotel, while playing
Thomas Becket on tour in
Bradford , dying soon afterwards.
[4]
October 15 – The weekly full-color comic strip
Little Nemo in Slumberland , by
Winsor McCay , debuts in the
New York Herald .
December 10 –
O. Henry 's short story "
The Gift of the Magi " first appears as "Gifts of the Magi" in
The New York Sunday World .
December 15 –
Pushkin House is founded in
Saint Petersburg , Russia, to preserve the heritage of
Alexander Pushkin .
[5]
unknown dates
The first of many chapters of
I Am a Cat (吾輩は猫である) by
Natsume Sōseki is published
serially in
Hototogisu (ホトトギス, Lesser cuckoo). It begins in military style: "I, sir, am a cat, though as yet I have no name...." and explores a family in which the English-teacher husband cannot speak English.
The group Noor-Eesti (Young Estonia) is formed to promote
Estonian national awakening in language and literature.
The
National Library of Thailand is created as the Vajirayanana Library for the Capital City in
Bangkok , with the merger of the Mandira Dharma Vajirayanana and Buddhasasana Sangaha libraries by royal decree.
Belle da Costa Greene , aged 22, is appointed as librarian to
J. P. Morgan in New York City.
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 2 –
Jainendra Kumar , Indian author and translator (died
1988 )
[11]
January 6 –
Idris Davies , Anglo-Welsh poet (died
1953 )
[12]
January 21 –
Wanda Wasilewska , Polish Soviet novelist and journalist (died
1964 )
January 25 –
Margery Sharp , English novelist and children's writer (died
1991 )
[13]
January 31
February 2
February 7 –
Paul Nizan , French philosopher and writer (died
1940 )
[18]
February 15 (February 2
OS ) –
Musa Cälil , Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter (executed
1944 )
February 26 –
Robert Byron , English travel writer (torpedoed
1941 )
[19]
March 2 –
Geoffrey Grigson , English poet and critic (died
1985 )
[20]
March 23 –
Joseph Henry Reason , African-American librarian (died
1997 )
March 31 –
Kulap Saipradit (Siburapha), Thai novelist (died
1974 )
April 30 –
Leslie Paul , Anglo-Irish novelist (died
1985 )
May 1 –
Emmanuel Mounier , French philosopher, journalist and theologian (died
1950 )
May 16 –
H. E. Bates , English novelist (died
1974 )
[21]
May 20 –
Gerrit Achterberg , Dutch poet (died
1962 )
[22]
May 24 –
Mikhail Sholokhov , Soviet Russian novelist (died
1984 )
[23]
June 20 –
Lillian Hellman , American dramatist (died
1984 )
[24]
June 21
July 25
August 14 –
Ștefan Tita , Romanian polygraph and journalist activist (died
1977 )
September 4 –
Mary Renault , British novelist (died
1983 )
September 5 –
Arthur Koestler , Hungarian-born English novelist and social philosopher (suicide
1983 )
[27]
October 15 –
C. P. Snow , English novelist (died
1980 )
[28]
October 17 –
Lev Nussimbaum , Russian and Azerbaijani novelist (died
1942 )[
citation needed ]
October 31 –
Elizabeth Jenkins , English author (died
2010 )
[29]
November 10 –
Kurt Eggers , German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright (killed in action
1943 )
December 4 –
Munro Leaf , American children's author (died
1974 )
December 12
December 13 –
Ann Barzel , American writer and dance critic (died
2007 )
[30]
December 21 –
Anthony Powell , English novelist (died
2000 )
[31]
December 22 –
Kenneth Rexroth , American poet and critic (died
1982 )
December 30 (December 17
OS ) –
Daniil Kharms , born Daniil Ivánovich Yuvatchov, Russian surrealist, children's writer, absurdist poet, short prose author and dramatist (died
1942 )
Unknown date –
Culai Neniu , Moldovan folklorist and dramatist (shot
1939 )
Deaths
January 2 –
Clara Augusta Jones Trask , American writer and dime novelist (born
1839 )
[32]
January 19 –
Debendranath Tagore , Hindu philosopher and religious reformer (born
1817 )
[33]
January 21 –
Clara Harrison Stranahan , American author; founder of Barnard College (born
1831 )
January 28 –
Cordelia A. Greene , American physician, reformer, benefactor (born
1831 )
February 15 –
Lew Wallace , American novelist and general (born
1827 )
[34]
February 26 –
Marcel Schwob , French writer (pneumonia, born
1867 )
March 20 –
Antonin Proust , French journalist and politician (born
1832 )
[35]
March 24 –
Jules Verne , French novelist (born
1828 )
[36]
April 9 –
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge), American children's writer (born
1839 )
[37]
April 18 –
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano , Spanish realist novelist (born
1824 )
May 23 –
Mary Livermore , American journalist and women's rights activist (born
1820 )
[38]
July 13 –
Lisa Anne Fletcher , American poet, correspondent (born
1844 )
[39]
August 14 –
Gertrude Bloede (Stuart Sterne), American poet (born
1845 )
[40]
August 22 –
David Binning Monro , Scottish Homeric scholar (born
1836 )
[41]
September 18 –
George MacDonald , Scottish poet, writer and minister (born
1824 )
[42]
October 3 –
José-Maria de Heredia , French poet (born
1842 )
[43]
October 6 –
Hibbard H. Shedd , American politician and novelist (born
1847 )
[44]
October 13 – Sir
Henry Irving , English actor (born
1838 )
[4]
October 28 –
Alphonse Allais , French humorist (born
1854 )
November 30 –
Susannah V. Aldrich , American author and hymnwriter (born
1828 )
December 3 –
John Bartlett , American lexicographer and publisher (born
1820 )
December 9 – Sir
Richard Claverhouse Jebb , Scottish classicist and politician (born
1841 )
December 11 –
Paul Meurice , French novelist and playwright (born
1818 )
December 12 –
William Sharp , Scottish poet, biographer and novelist (born
1855 )
[45]
December 20 –
Henry Harland (Sidney Luska), American novelist and editor (tuberculosis, born
1861 )
December 29 –
Victor Daley (Creeve Roe), Australian poet (tuberculosis, born
1858 )
[46]
Awards
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