1905 in literature

none 1905 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1905. Events right|thumb|Fred Terry as Sir Percy Blakeney, The Scarlet Pimpernel in the 1905 West End theatre production of The Scarlet Pimpernel January – The All-Story Magazine, a pulp magazine, is founded in the United States and published by Frank Munsey.Moskowitz Sam Sam Moskowitz Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891–1911 The World Publishing Company 1968 Moskowitz Sam Cleveland, Ohio 15–50 Introduction: A History of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891–1911 1330798369 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.The Era Annual https://books.google.com/books?id=NT1KAQAAMAAJ 1909 106 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.Gottesman, Ronald. Introduction to Penguin Classics edition of the novel. 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, Victoria Hall, Archer Street, Westbourne Grove, London, with Millicent Murby in the title role, directed by Florence Farr. The author died in 1900.Wilde Oscar 1986 319 The Importance of Being Earnest and other plays London Penguin Books 0-14-048209-1 https://archive.org/details/importanceofb00wild/page/319 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.Jeffrey Richards Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and His World https://books.google.com/books?id=YZuF4jHK3SgC&pg=PA1 16 December 2005 A&C Black 978-1-85285-345-7 1 October 15 – The weekly full-color comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, by Winsor McCay, makes its first appearance in the New York Herald.Holtz Allan American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide 2012 The University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor 9780472117567 241 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.The American Short Story: A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar, by the Great American Writers from Washington Irving to Saul Bellow. State Street Press 1994 9780681646872 440 December 15 – Pushkin House is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the heritage of Alexander Pushkin.Silvia Maretti Tigran Martirosyan S. Frederick Starr A Scholars' Guide to Humanities and Social Sciences in the Soviet Successor States https://books.google.com/books?id=S0kUAQAAIAAJ 1993 M.E. Sharpe 978-0-87332-831-9 75 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.N P R 2024-11-08 The Morgan Library's quest to honor a matriarch in archiving https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08/1211598249/morgan-library-bella-da-costa-greene 2026-07-17 NPR en New books Fiction Edwin Lester Arnold – Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation Margarete Böhme – Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (Diary of a Lost Girl) Rhoda Broughton – A Waif's Progress Willa Cather – The Troll Garden Mary Boykin Chesnut – A Diary from Dixie G. K. Chesterton – The Club of Queer Trades (book publication) Marquis de Sade (d. 1814) – The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 journées de Sodome, written 1785) Catherine Isabella Dodd – A Vagrant EnglishwomanGlasgow (Scotland). Corporation Public Libraries. Stirling's Library Annual Report https://books.google.com/books?id=REtFAQAAMAAJ 1901 Aird & Coghill 23 Arthur Conan Doyle – The Return of Sherlock Holmes (stories collected in book format) Lord Dunsany – The Gods of PegānaS. T. Joshi Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination https://books.google.com/books?id=ZH9b6axwqtYC&pg=PA17 1995 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-29403-7 17 Antonio Fogazzaro – Il Santo (The Saint) E. M. Forster – Where Angels Fear to Tread Tom Gallon – Meg the Lady Robert Hichens – The Garden of AllahQ. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public rev. London Chatto & Windus 1965 W. H. Hudson – A Little Boy Lost W. J. Locke – The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne Leopoldo Lugones – La Guerra Gaucha (The Gaucho War) Heinrich Mann – Professor Unrat George Moore – The Lake Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel The Case of Miss Elliot By the Gods Beloved Dorothy Richardson (anonymously) – The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, As Told by Herself Hjalmar Söderberg – Doctor Glas Katherine Thurston – The Gambler Mark Twain – King Leopold's Soliloquy Jules Verne Invasion of the Sea (L'Invasion de la mer) The Lighthouse at the End of the World (Le Phare du bout du monde) Elizabeth von Arnim – Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Mary Augusta Ward – The Marriage of William Ashe H. G. Wells – Kipps Edith Wharton – The House of Mirth Children and young people L. Frank Baum Queen Zixi of Ix The Fate of a Crown (as Schuyler Staunton) Angela Brazil – A Terrible Tomboy Frances Hodgson Burnett – A Little Princess H. E. Marshall – Our Island Story (history) Beatrix Potter The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan Herbert Strang – Kobo: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War H. A. Vachell – The Hill Carolyn Wells – Patty in the City Drama David Belasco – The Girl of the Golden West Jacinto Benavente – Rosas de otoño (Autumn Roses) Clyde Fitch – The Woman in the Case Maxim Gorky – Children of the Sun (Дети солнца, Deti solntsa) Harley Granville-Barker – The Voysey Inheritance Sacha Guitry Le KWTZ Nono Alois Jirásek – Lantern Rainis – Uguns un nakts (Fire and Night) George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara Man and Superman (first staged) J. M. Synge – The Well of the SaintsJohn Millington Synge Plays, ed. by Ann Saddlemyer https://books.google.com/books?id=Q7C7AAAAIAAJ 1962 Oxford University Press 261 Alfredo Testoni – Cardinal Lambertini Anthony E. Wills All Charley's Faulthttps://books.google.com/books?id=puY9AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22All+Charley%27s+Fault%22+%221905%22&pg=PA2 All Charley's Fault: An Original Farce in Two Acts Wills Anthony E. 1905 Walter H. Baker & Co Liberty Cornershttps://books.google.com/books?id=MFEkAQAAMAAJ Liberty Corners: A Rural Comedy Drama in Four Acts Wills Anthony E. 1905 Walter H. Baker & Co Poetry 1905 in poetry E. Clerihew Bentley – Biography for Beginners Gjergj Fishta – Lahuta e Malcís (The Highland Lute; begins publication) Sarojini Naidu – The Golden Threshold Rainer Maria Rilke – The Book of Hours (Das Stunden-Buch) Violet Teague – Night Fall in the Ti-Tree Non-fiction Phan Bội Châu – Viet Nam vong quoc su G. K. Chesterton – HereticsG. K. Chesterton Heretics: A Collection of 20 Essays 2017 9781981231256 Sigmund Freud – Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie)Sigmund Freud On Sexuality: Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality and Other Works https://books.google.com/books?id=G6VlQgAACAAJ 1991 Penguin 978-0-14-013797-2 Afevork Ghevre Jesus – Grammatica della lingua amaricaManfred von Roncador Tom Güldemann Reported Discourse: A Meeting Ground for Different Linguistic Domains Benjamins Pub. 2002 9789027229588 248 Mary Scharlieb – The Mother's Guide to the Health and Care of her Children Society of American Foresters – Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters (begins publication) University of Nevada – The University of Nevada Catalogue Max Weber – The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus)Max Weber Peter R. Baehr Gordon C. Wells The Protestant ethic and the "spirit" of capitalism and other writings 2002 Penguin 978-0-14-043921-2 Births January 6 – Idris Davies, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1953)Idris Davies The Complete Poems of Idris Davies https://books.google.com/books?id=bY1aAAAAMAAJ 1994 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1272-8 xi January 21 – Wanda Wasilewska, Polish Soviet novelist and journalist (died 1964) January 25 – Margery Sharp, English novelist and children's writer (died 1991)World Authors, 1900-1950: Saki-Zweig https://books.google.com/books?id=XD0OAQAAMAAJ 1996 H.W. Wilson 978-0-8242-0899-8 2381 January 31 Angelina Acuña, Guatemalan poet and author (died 2006)Nag Leidy Maria Angelina Acuña http://www.buenastareas.com/ensayos/Obras-De-Angelina-Acuña/1740193.html Buenas Tareas Buenas Tareas 29 June 2015 Guatemala Spanish 17 March 2011 John O'Hara, American writer (died 1970)Matthew J. Bruccoli The O'Hara Concern: A Biography of John O'Hara https://books.google.com/books?id=UyS4B9Ffn4AC&pg=PA9 15 July 1975 University of Pittsburgh Pre 978-0-8229-7471-0 9 February 2 John Davy Hayward, English literary editor and bibliophile (died 1965)The Book Collector https://books.google.com/books?id=NRvhAAAAMAAJ 2002 Collector Limited 372 Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum), Russian-American novelist, playwright and screenwriter (died 1982)John K. Roth Christina J. Moose Rowena Wildin World Philosophers and Their Works: Ockham, William of - Zhuangzi https://books.google.com/books?id=0iQOAQAAMAAJ 2000 Salem Press 978-0-89356-881-8 1604 February 7 – Paul Nizan, French philosopher and writer (died 1940)Gale Group Terrie M. Rooney Contemporary Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=wwu7HmSv4jkC 1998 Gale Research International, Limited 978-0-7876-1994-7 293 February 15 (February 2 OS) – Musa Cälil, Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter (executed 1944) February 26 – Robert Byron, English travel writer (torpedoed 1941)32229 Mark Pottle Byron, Robert March 2 – Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic (died 1985)Rare Book Review https://books.google.com/books?id=-DlVAAAAYAAJ 2005 Countrywide Editions 32 March 23 – Joseph Henry Reason, African-American librarian (died 1997) 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)Patrick J. Quinn Recharting the Thirties https://books.google.com/books?id=9AtgeckHXYAC&pg=PA124 1996 Susquehanna University Press 978-0-945636-90-8 124 May 20 – Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (died 1962)Private country houses in the Netherlands https://books.google.com/books?id=yG3qAAAAMAAJ 1997 Waanders 978-90-400-9850-5 167 May 24 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet Russian novelist (died 1984)G. Mukherjee Mikhail Sholokhov : Literaturnyĭ Portret https://books.google.com/books?id=IiFptpOlEQQC&pg=PA203 1992 Northern Book Centre 978-81-7211-024-6 203 June 20 – Lillian Hellman, American dramatist (died 1984)Lillian Hellman American playwright https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lillian-Hellman Encyclopedia Britannica 14 December 2020 en June 21 Jacques Goddet, French sports journalist (died 2000)The New York Times Biographical Service https://books.google.com/books?id=JHkoAQAAIAAJ 2000 New York Times & Arno Press 2148 Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist and playwright (died 1980)John Gerassi Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century : Protestant Or Protester? https://books.google.com/books?id=XStvJEokm7gC&pg=PA42 1989 University of Chicago Press 978-0-226-28797-3 42 July 25 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born novelist and playwright writing in German (died 1994)A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti Camden House 2004 263 Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English children's writer (died 1990) August 14 – Ștefan Tita, Romanian polygraph and journalist activist (died 1977) September 4 – Mary Renault, British novelist (died 1983)https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/14/obituaries/mary-renault-novelist-is-dead-based-works-on-history-of-greece.html Mary Renault, Novelist, is Dead; Based Works on History of Greece The New York Times 14 December 1983 Krebs Albin September 5 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born English novelist and social philosopher (suicide 1983)David Scott Kastan The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=DlMUSz-hiuEC&pg=RA2-PA207 2006 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-516921-8 2 October 15 – C. P. Snow, English novelist (died 1980)Suguna Ramanathan The Novels of C. P. Snow: A Critical Introduction https://books.google.com/books?id=nEtEUBoEl2kC&pg=PA25 1978 Atlantic Publishers & Distri 25 October 17 – Lev Nussimbaum, Russian and Azerbaijani novelist (died 1942)Jays David 2005-07-10 The alter boy https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jul/10/biography.features2 2026-07-17 The Guardian en-GB 0261-3077 October 31 – Elizabeth Jenkins, English author (died 2010)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/sep/07/elizabeth-jenkins-obituary Elizabeth Jenkins Obituary 2 January 2017 The Guardian 7 September 2010 November 10 – Kurt Eggers, German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright (killed in action 1943) November 25 – Samiha Ayverdi, Turkish writer and Sufi mystic (died 1993) December 4 – Munro Leaf, American children's author (died 1974) Vasily Grossman, Russian novelist and writer (died 1964) December 13 – Ann Barzel, American writer and dance critic (died 2007)June Skinner Sawyers Chicago Portraits: New Edition https://books.google.com/books?id=qojgLBuEFEUC&pg=PA29 31 March 2012 Northwestern University Press 978-0-8101-2649-7 29 December 21 – Anthony Powell, English novelist (died 2000)Nicholas Birns Understanding Anthony Powell https://books.google.com/books?id=6wDJd7XejHcC&pg=PA1 2004 Univ of South Carolina Press 978-1-57003-549-4 1 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) Deaths January 2 – Clara Augusta Jones Trask, American writer and dime novelist (born 1839)Trask, Clara Augusta Jones http://www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/trask_clara.html Northern Illinois University 16 April 2017 26 July 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160726080605/http://www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/trask_clara.html dead January 19 – Debendranath Tagore, Hindu philosopher and religious reformer (born 1817)Andrew Robinson The Art of Rabindranath Tagore https://books.google.com/books?id=icefAAAAMAAJ 1989 Rupa 46 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)Frank Northen Magill Masterplots: Cyclopedia of world authors; seven hundred fifty three novelists, poets, playwrights from the world's fine literature https://books.google.com/books?id=fe_XAAAAMAAJ 1958 Salem Press 1122 February 26 – Marcel Schwob, French writer (pneumonia, born 1867) March 20 – Antonin Proust, French journalist and politician (born 1832)y Proust, Antonin 22 490 March 24 – Jules Verne, French novelist (born 1828)Edmund J. Smyth Jules Verne: Narratives of Modernity https://books.google.com/books?id=15dUa_WG-h4C&pg=PA45 2000 Liverpool University Press 978-0-85323-704-4 45 April 9 – Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge), American children's writer (born 1839)The Connecticut Nutmegger https://books.google.com/books?id=jYVYAAAAMAAJ 1988 Connecticut Society of Genealogists 40 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)https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101199520/mrs-mary-livermore-dies-at-advanced-age/ Mrs. Mary Livermore Dies at Advanced Age The Birmingham News Melrose, Massachusetts 1 1905-05-23 2022-05-06 Newspapers.com July 13 – Lisa Anne Fletcher, American poet, correspondent (born 1844)Obituary, Lisa Anne Fletcher. Died July 13, 1905, Manchester, New Hampshire. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114436612/obituary-lisa-anne-fletcher-died-july/ 11 December 2022 The Boston Globe Newspapers.com 15 July 1905 10 August 14 – Gertrude Bloede (Stuart Sterne), American poet (born 1845)Bloede, Gertrude 1929 Sarah G. Bowerman August 22 – David Binning Monro, Scottish Homeric scholar (born 1836)Monro, David Binning (1836–1905), classical scholar https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35070 2020-12-07 2004 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/35070 Phelps L. R. Richard Smail September 18 – George MacDonald, Scottish poet, writer and minister (born 1824)Aberdeen University Review https://books.google.com/books?id=XI8mAQAAIAAJ 1925 Aberdeen University Press 1 October 3 – José-Maria de Heredia, French poet (born 1842)O. Classe [Anonymus AC02468681] Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L https://books.google.com/books?id=myLDA0_brhcC&pg=PA634 2000 Taylor & Francis 978-1-884964-36-7 634 October 6 – Hibbard H. Shedd, American politician and novelist (born 1847)Hibbard Houston Shedd, Nebraska State Historical Society publications (Volume 15)], p. 168-74 (1907) October 13 – Sir Henry Irving, English actor (born 1838) 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)The French Review, Volumes 14–15 American Association of Teachers of French 1941 117 December 12 – William Sharp, Scottish poet, biographer and novelist (born 1855)https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-36041 Sharp, William [pseud. Fiona MacLeod] (1855–1905), novelist and mystic 2004 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/36041 2020-02-25 Pittock Murray G. H. December 20 – Henry Harland (Sidney Luska), American novelist and editor (tuberculosis, born 1861) December 29 – Victor Daley (Creeve Roe), Australian poet (tuberculosis, born 1858)Who's who in Australia https://books.google.com/books?id=AY8LAAAAIAAJ 1922 The Herald 303 Awards Newdigate Prize: Arthur Robert Reade, "Garibaldi"Arthur Robert Reade Garibaldi: The Newdigate Poem, 1905 https://books.google.com/books?id=B3U1AAAAMAAJ 1905 B.H. Blackwell Nobel Prize for Literature: Henryk SienkiewiczBurton Feldman The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige https://books.google.com/books?id=xnckeeTICn0C&pg=PA106 2000 Arcade Publishing 978-1-55970-592-9 106 References 30em External links Popular Books of 1905 at Goodreads Published 1905 Books at Goodreads 1905 Books at Goodreads