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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref>Gottesman, Ronald. Introduction to Penguin Classics edition of the novel.</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref name="Richards2005">Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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- 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

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 – Heretics<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Sigmund Freud – Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Afevork Ghevre Jesus – Grammatica della lingua amarica<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Births

January 2 – Jainendra Kumar, Indian author and translator (died 1988)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
January 6 – Idris Davies, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1953)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
January 21 – Wanda Wasilewska, Polish Soviet novelist and journalist (died 1964)
January 25 – Margery Sharp, English novelist and children's writer (died 1991)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
January 31
- Angelina Acuña, Guatemalan poet and author (died 2006)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- John O'Hara, American writer (died 1970)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
February 2
- John Davy Hayward, English literary editor and bibliophile (died 1965)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum), Russian-American novelist, playwright and screenwriter (died 1982)<ref name="RothMoose2000">Template:Cite book</ref>
February 7 – Paul Nizan, French philosopher and writer (died 1940)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
February 15 (February 2 OS) – Musa Cälil, Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter (executed 1944)
February 26 – Robert Byron, English travel writer (torpedoed 1941)<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
March 2 – Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic (died 1985)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
May 20 – Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (died 1962)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
May 24 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet Russian novelist (died 1984)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
June 20 – Lillian Hellman, American dramatist (died 1984)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
June 21
- Jacques Goddet, French sports journalist (died 2000)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist and playwright (died 1980)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
July 25
- Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born novelist and playwright writing in German (died 1994)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- 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)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
September 5 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born English novelist and social philosopher (suicide 1983)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
October 15 – C. P. Snow, English novelist (died 1980)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
October 17 – Lev Nussimbaum, Russian and Azerbaijani novelist (died 1942)Template:Cn
October 31 – Elizabeth Jenkins, English author (died 2010)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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)
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)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
December 21 – Anthony Powell, English novelist (died 2000)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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)<ref name="ulib.niu.edu">Template:Cite web</ref>
January 19 – Debendranath Tagore, Hindu philosopher and religious reformer (born 1817)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
February 26 – Marcel Schwob, French writer (pneumonia, born 1867)
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March 24 – Jules Verne, French novelist (born 1828)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
April 9 – Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge), American children's writer (born 1839)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
July 13 – Lisa Anne Fletcher, American poet, correspondent (born 1844)<ref name="TheBG-15jul1905">Template:Cite news Template:Source-attribution</ref>
August 14 – Gertrude Bloede (Stuart Sterne), American poet (born 1845)<ref>Template:Cite DAB</ref>
August 22 – David Binning Monro, Scottish Homeric scholar (born 1836)<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
September 18 – George MacDonald, Scottish poet, writer and minister (born 1824)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
October 3 – José-Maria de Heredia, French poet (born 1842)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
October 6 – Hibbard H. Shedd, American politician and novelist (born 1847)<ref>Hibbard Houston Shedd, Nebraska State Historical Society publications (Volume 15)], p. 168-74 (1907)</ref>
October 13 – Sir Henry Irving, English actor (born 1838)<ref name="Richards2005"/>
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)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
December 12 – William Sharp, Scottish poet, biographer and novelist (born 1855)<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
December 20 – Henry Harland (Sidney Luska), American novelist and editor (tuberculosis, born 1861)
December 29 – Victor Daley (Creeve Roe), Australian poet (tuberculosis, born 1858)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Awards

Newdigate Prize: Arthur Robert Reade, "Garibaldi"<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Nobel Prize for Literature: Henryk Sienkiewicz<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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