1906 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1906.

Events[]

Russian writer Zinaida Gippius in exile in France during 1906, portrayed by Léon Bakst
  • February 8 – The writer Hilaire Belloc becomes a Liberal Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom.
  • February 15 – J. M. Dent and Co. initiates the U.K. Everyman's Library series, edited by Ernest Rhys. The first title is Boswell's Life of Johnson.
  • March 13 – The Romanian nationalist historian Nicolae Iorga instigates a boycott of the National Theater Bucharest over its staging of French-language plays. A riot ensues.[1]
  • April 10–October 13 – Maxim Gorky visits the United States with his mistress, the actress Maria Andreyeva, to raise funds for the Bolsheviks.[2] In the Adirondack Mountains he writes his novel of revolutionary conversion and struggle, The Mother (Мать, Mat'). The couple then move to Capri.
  • April 18 – The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroys the unfinished premises of Stanford University Library.[3] Many of the city's leading poets and writers retreat to join the arts colony at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California known as The Barness.
  • May–October – Jack London's novel White Fang is serialized in the American magazine Outing.
  • June – Virginia Stephen, the future Virginia Woolf, writes her first work of fiction, a short story which becomes known as "Phyllis and Rosamond" when first published, posthumously.[4]
  • July 11 – The Murder of Grace Brown in Herkimer County, New York will inspire Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy (1925) and Jennifer Donnelly's young-adult novel A Northern Light (2003).
  • Pre-September – The last full-scale court performance of gambuh dance-drama is held in Bali.[5]
  • September 1 – Annie Carroll Moore begins work as Superintendent of the Department of Work with Children at the New York Public Library.
  • September 18 – August Strindberg's naturalist drama Miss Julie (Fröken Julie), written in 1888, is first performed on the Swedish professional stage, on tour in Lund, directed by August Falck, with Manda Bjorling in the title rôle and August Palme as Jean. It is first staged in Stockholm on December 13 at the Folkan (People's Theatre).
  • November 8 – Max Reinhardt inaugurates the Kammerspiele series of new plays at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, with a production of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, designed by Edvard Munch.[6]
  • November 20 – Frank Wedekind's play Spring Awakening: A Children's Tragedy (Frühlings Erwachen), completed 1901, receives its first staging, as the second work presented in the Deutsches Theater's Kammerspiele series in Berlin, directed by Max Reinhardt.
  • December 24 – Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts.
  • unknown dates

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1906 in poetry
  • Mikhail Kuzmin – Alexandrian Songs

Non-fiction[]

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References[]

  1. ^ Nastasă, Lucian (2007). "Suveranii" universităților românești. Mecanisme de selecție și promovare a elitei intelectuale. Vol. I. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Limes. pp. 95, 428, 479.Weber, Eugen (1966). "Romania". In Rogger, Hans; Weber, Eugen (eds.). The European Right: A Historical Profile. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. pp. 510–511. OCLC 192820.
  2. ^ "Maxim Gorky, Russian Author – Revolutionary, Visits the US". Topics in Chronicling America. Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress Newspaper & Periodical Reading Room. 2013-02-11. Retrieved 2013-03-28.
  3. ^ Stanford University (1919). New Building of the Stanford University Library and a History of the Library 1891–1919. Stanford University. stanford library
  4. ^ "Phyllis and Rosamond". Mantex. Archived from the original on 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  5. ^ "Gambuh". Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance. Oxford University Press. 2003. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
  6. ^ "1906, Kammerspiele, Ghosts". Global Performing Arts Database. 1998–2006. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
  7. ^ E. Annus; Tiina Loogväli; Eesti Akadeemiline Raamatukogu (2002). Eestikeelne ajakirjandus: A-N. Eesti Akadeemiline Raamatukogu. p. 109.
  8. ^ Stoker, Bram (June 1908). "Mr. De Morgan's Habits of Work". The World's Work. XVI: 10337–10342. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
  9. ^ Sutherland, John (2007). Bestsellers: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press. pp. 87–8. ISBN 978-0-19-921489-1.
  10. ^ Natsume Natsume Soseki (7 December 2016). Botchan. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1-5408-6651-6.
  11. ^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 4. ISBN 9780198715542.
  12. ^ Campbell, Margaret (1978). "Freeman, Barbara C(onstance)". In Kirkpatrick, D.L. (ed.). Twentieth-century Children's Writers. London: Macmillan. p. 472. ISBN 978-0-33323-414-3.


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