1905 in literature

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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.
  • 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[]

Main article: 1905 in 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 25 – Margery Sharp, English novelist and children's writer (died 1991)[13]
  • January 31
  • February 2
    • John Davy Hayward, English literary editor and bibliophile (died 1965)[16]
    • Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum), Russian-American novelist, playwright and screenwriter (died 1982)[17]
  • February 7 – Paul Nizan, French philosopher and writer (died 1940)[18]
  • 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)
  • 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
    • Jacques Goddet, French sports journalist (died 2000)[25]
    • Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist and playwright (died 1980)[26]
  • July 25
    • Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born novelist and playwright writing in German (died 1994)
    • Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English children's writer (died 1990)
  • 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
    • Mulk Raj Anand, Indian novelist (died 2004)
    • Vasily Grossman, Russian novelist and writer (died 1964)
  • 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)

Deaths[]

Awards[]

References[]

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  2. ^ Gottesman, Ronald. Introduction to Penguin Classics edition of the novel.
  3. ^ Wilde, Oscar (1986). The Importance of Being Earnest and other plays. London: Penguin Books. p. 319. ISBN 0-14-048209-1.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Jeffrey Richards (16 December 2005). Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and His World. A&C Black. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-85285-345-7.
  5. ^ Silvia Maretti; Tigran Martirosyan; S. Frederick Starr (1993). A Scholars' Guide to Humanities and Social Sciences in the Soviet Successor States. M.E. Sharpe. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-87332-831-9.
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  12. ^ Idris Davies (1994). The Complete Poems of Idris Davies. University of Wales Press. p. xi. ISBN 978-0-7083-1272-8.
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