Editing 1905 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1905'''.
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==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 [[Noël Coward Theatre|New Theatre]], followed shortly by publication of the novel.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Era Annual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NT1KAQAAMAAJ|year=1909|page=106}}</ref>
*[[January 16]] – [[Neil Munro (Hugh Foulis)|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 (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 (play)|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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wilde |first=Oscar |year=1986 |page=[https://archive.org/details/importanceofb00wild/page/319 319] |title=The Importance of Being Earnest and other plays |location=London |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=0-14-048209-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/importanceofb00wild/page/319}}</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, Cumbria|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">{{cite book|author=Jeffrey Richards|title=Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and His World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YZuF4jHK3SgC&pg=PA1|date=16 December 2005|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-85285-345-7|pages=1}}</ref>
*[[October 15]] – The weekly full-color comic strip ''[[Little Nemo|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 World|The New York Sunday World]]''.
*[[December 15]] – [[Pushkin House]] is founded in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia, to preserve the heritage of [[Alexander Pushkin]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Silvia Maretti|author2=Tigran Martirosyan|author3=S. Frederick Starr|title=A Scholars' Guide to Humanities and Social Sciences in the Soviet Successor States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S0kUAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-0-87332-831-9|page=75}}</ref>
*''unknown dates''
**The first of many chapters of ''[[I Am a Cat]]'' (吾輩は猫である) by [[Natsume Sōseki]] is published [[Serial (literature)|serially]] in ''[[Hototogisu (magazine)|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===
*[[Edwin Lester Arnold]] – ''[[Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation]]''
*[[Margarete Böhme]] – ''[[Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (book)|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 Englishwoman''<ref>{{cite book|author=Glasgow (Scotland). Corporation Public Libraries. Stirling's Library|title=Annual Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtFAQAAMAAJ|year=1901|publisher=Aird & Coghill|page=23}}</ref>
*[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] – ''[[The Return of Sherlock Holmes]]'' (stories collected in book format)
*[[Lord Dunsany]] – ''[[The Gods of Pegāna]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=S. T. Joshi|title=Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZH9b6axwqtYC&pg=PA17|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29403-7|pages=17}}</ref>
*[[Antonio Fogazzaro]] – ''Il Santo'' (The Saint)
*[[E. M. Forster]] – ''[[Where Angels Fear to Tread]]''
*[[Tom Gallon]] – ''[[Meg the Lady (novel)|Meg the Lady]]''
*[[Robert Hichens (writer)|Robert Hichens]] – ''The Garden of Allah''<ref name=QDL>{{cite book |first=Q. D. |last=Leavis |author-link=Q. D. Leavis |title=Fiction and the Reading Public |edition=rev. |location=London |publisher=Chatto & Windus |year=1965}}</ref>
*[[W. H. Hudson]] – ''[[A Little Boy Lost]]''
*[[William John Locke|W. J. Locke]] – ''[[The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne (novel)|The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne]]''<ref name=QDL />
*[[Jack London]] – ''[[White Fang]]''
*[[Leopoldo Lugones]] – ''[[La Guerra Gaucha (novel)|La Guerra Gaucha]]'' (The Gaucho War)
*[[Heinrich Mann]] – ''[[Professor Unrat]]''
*[[George Moore (novelist)|George Moore]] – ''The Lake''
*[[Baroness Orczy]]
**''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel]]''<ref name=QDL />
**''[[The Case of Miss Elliot]]''
**''[[By the Gods Beloved]]''
*Dorothy Richardson (anonymously) – ''[[The Long Day|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]]''
*[[Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall|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''
*[[Horace Annesley Vachell|H. A. Vachell]] – ''The Hill''<ref name=QDL />
*[[Carolyn Wells]] – ''Patty in the City''

===Drama===
<onlyinclude>
*[[David Belasco]] – ''[[The Girl of the Golden West (play)|The Girl of the Golden West]]''
*[[Jacinto Benavente]] – ''[[:es:Rosas de otoño|Rosas de otoño]]'' (Autumn Roses)
*[[Clyde Fitch]] – ''[[The Woman in the Case (play)|The Woman in the Case]]''
*[[Maxim Gorky]] – ''[[Children of the Sun (play)|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 Saints]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=John Millington Synge|title=Plays, ed. by Ann Saddlemyer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q7C7AAAAIAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=261}}</ref>
* [[Alfredo Testoni]] – ''[[Cardinal Lambertini (play)|Cardinal Lambertini]]''
* [[Anthony E. Wills]] 
**''All Charley's Fault''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=puY9AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22All+Charley%27s+Fault%22+%221905%22&pg=PA2|title=All Charley's Fault: An Original Farce in Two Acts|last= Wills|first= Anthony E.|year=1905|publisher=Walter H. Baker & Co}}</ref>
**''Liberty Corners''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MFEkAQAAMAAJ|title=Liberty Corners: A Rural Comedy Drama in Four Acts|last= Wills|first= Anthony E.|year=1905|publisher=Walter H. Baker & Co}}</ref></onlyinclude>

===Poetry===
{{Main|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]] – ''[[Heretics (book)|Heretics]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=G. K. Chesterton|title=Heretics: A Collection of 20 Essays|publisher=|year=2017|isbn=9781981231256}}</ref>
*[[Sigmund Freud]] – ''[[Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality]] (Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie)''<ref>{{cite book|author=Sigmund Freud|title=On Sexuality: Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality and Other Works|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6VlQgAACAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-0-14-013797-2}}</ref>
*[[Afevork Ghevre Jesus]] – ''Grammatica della lingua amarica''<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Manfred von Roncador|editor2=Tom Güldemann|title=Reported Discourse: A Meeting Ground for Different Linguistic Domains|publisher=Benjamins Pub.|year=2002|isbn=9789027229588|page=248}}</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, Reno|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>{{cite book|author1=Max Weber|author2=Peter R. Baehr|author3=Gordon C. Wells|title=The Protestant ethic and the "spirit" of capitalism and other writings|year=2002|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-0-14-043921-2}}</ref>

==Births==
*[[January 2]] – [[Jainendra Kumar]], Indian author and translator (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Book Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o25JAQAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=C. Chari for Perspective Publications|page=3}}</ref>
*[[January 6]] – [[Idris Davies]], Anglo-Welsh poet (died [[1953 in literature|1953]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Idris Davies|title=The Complete Poems of Idris Davies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bY1aAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1272-8|page=xi}}</ref>
*[[January 21]] – [[Wanda Wasilewska]], Polish Soviet novelist and journalist (died [[1964 in literature|1964]])
*[[January 25]] – [[Margery Sharp]], English novelist and children's writer (died [[1991 in literature|1991]])<ref>{{cite book|title=World Authors, 1900-1950: Saki-Zweig|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XD0OAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=H.W. Wilson|isbn=978-0-8242-0899-8|page=2381}}</ref>
*[[January 31]] 
**[[Angelina Acuña]], Guatemalan poet and author (died [[2006 in literature|2006]])<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nag|first1=Leidy Maria|title=Angelina Acuña|url=http://www.buenastareas.com/ensayos/Obras-De-Angelina-Acuña/1740193.html|website=Buenas Tareas|publisher=Buenas Tareas|accessdate=29 June 2015|location=Guatemala|language=Spanish|date=17 March 2011}}</ref>
**[[John O'Hara]], American writer (died [[1970 in literature|1970]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Matthew J. Bruccoli|title=The O'Hara Concern: A Biography of John O'Hara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UyS4B9Ffn4AC&pg=PA9|date=15 July 1975|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Pre|isbn=978-0-8229-7471-0|pages=9}}</ref>
*[[February 2]]
**[[John Davy Hayward]], English literary editor and bibliophile (died [[1965 in literature|1965]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Book Collector|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NRvhAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Collector Limited|page=372}}</ref>
**[[Ayn Rand]] (Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum), Russian-American novelist, playwright and screenwriter (died [[1982 in literature|1982]])<ref name="RothMoose2000">{{cite book|author1=John K. Roth|author2=Christina J. Moose|author3=Rowena Wildin|title=World Philosophers and Their Works: Ockham, William of - Zhuangzi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0iQOAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-881-8|page=1604}}</ref>
*[[February 7]] – [[Paul Nizan]], French philosopher and writer (died [[1940 in literature|1940]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Gale Group|author2=Terrie M. Rooney|title=Contemporary Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwu7HmSv4jkC|year=1998|publisher=Gale Research International, Limited|isbn=978-0-7876-1994-7|page=293}}</ref>
*[[February 15]] (February 2 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) – [[Musa Cälil]], Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter (executed [[1944 in literature|1944]])
*[[February 26]] – [[Robert Byron (travel writer)|Robert Byron]], English travel writer (torpedoed [[1941 in literature|1941]])<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=32229|first=Mark|last=Pottle|title=Byron, Robert}}</ref>
*[[March 2]] – [[Geoffrey Grigson]], English poet and critic (died [[1985 in literature|1985]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Rare Book Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-DlVAAAAYAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Countrywide Editions|page=32}}</ref>
*[[March 23]] – [[Joseph Henry Reason]], African-American librarian (died [[1997 in literature|1997]])
*[[March 31]] – [[Kulap Saipradit]] (Siburapha), Thai novelist (died [[1974 in literature|1974]])
*[[April 30]] – [[Leslie Paul]], Anglo-Irish novelist (died [[1985 in literature|1985]])
*[[May 1]] – [[Emmanuel Mounier]], French philosopher, journalist and theologian (died [[1950 in literature|1950]])
*[[May 16]] – [[H. E. Bates]], English novelist (died [[1974 in literature|1974]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Patrick J. Quinn|title=Recharting the Thirties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9AtgeckHXYAC&pg=PA124|year=1996|publisher=Susquehanna University Press|isbn=978-0-945636-90-8|pages=124}}</ref>
*[[May 20]] – [[Gerrit Achterberg]], Dutch poet (died [[1962 in literature|1962]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Private country houses in the Netherlands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yG3qAAAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Waanders|isbn=978-90-400-9850-5|page=167}}</ref>
*[[May 24]] – [[Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov|Mikhail Sholokhov]], Soviet Russian novelist (died [[1984 in literature|1984]])<ref>{{cite book|author=G. Mukherjee|title=Mikhail Sholokhov : Literaturnyĭ Portret|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IiFptpOlEQQC&pg=PA203|year=1992|publisher=Northern Book Centre|isbn=978-81-7211-024-6|pages=203}}</ref>
*[[June 20]] – [[Lillian Hellman]], American dramatist (died [[1984 in literature|1984]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Lillian Hellman {{!}} American playwright |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lillian-Hellman |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=14 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[June 21]] 
**[[Jacques Goddet]], French sports journalist (died [[2000 in literature|2000]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The New York Times Biographical Service|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JHkoAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=New York Times & Arno Press|page=2148}}</ref>
**[[Jean-Paul Sartre]], French philosopher, novelist and playwright (died [[1980 in literature|1980]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Gerassi|title=Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century : Protestant Or Protester?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XStvJEokm7gC&pg=PA42|year=1989|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-28797-3|pages=42}}</ref>
*[[July 25]]
**[[Elias Canetti]], Bulgarian-born novelist and playwright writing in German (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])<ref>{{cite book|title=A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti|publisher=Camden House|year=2004|page=263}}</ref>
**[[Denys Watkins-Pitchford]], English children's writer (died [[1990 in literature|1990]])
*[[August 14]] – [[Ștefan Tita]], Romanian polygraph and journalist activist (died [[1977 in literature|1977]])
*[[September 4]] – [[Mary Renault]], British novelist (died [[1983 in literature|1983]])<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/14/obituaries/mary-renault-novelist-is-dead-based-works-on-history-of-greece.html | title=Mary Renault, Novelist, is Dead; Based Works on History of Greece | work=The New York Times | date=14 December 1983 | last1=Krebs | first1=Albin }}</ref>
*[[September 5]] – [[Arthur Koestler]], Hungarian-born English novelist and social philosopher (suicide [[1983 in literature|1983]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Scott Kastan|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlMUSz-hiuEC&pg=RA2-PA207|year=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-516921-8|pages=2}}</ref>
*[[October 15]] – [[C. P. Snow]], English novelist (died [[1980 in literature|1980]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Suguna Ramanathan|title=The Novels of C. P. Snow: A Critical Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nEtEUBoEl2kC&pg=PA25|year=1978|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distri|pages=25}}</ref>
*[[October 17]] – [[Lev Nussimbaum]], Russian and Azerbaijani novelist (died [[1942 in literature|1942]]){{cn|date=June 2021}}
*[[October 31]] – [[Elizabeth Jenkins (author)|Elizabeth Jenkins]], English author (died [[2010 in literature|2010]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/sep/07/elizabeth-jenkins-obituary |title=Elizabeth Jenkins Obituary |access-date=2 January 2017 |work=The Guardian|date=7 September 2010 }}</ref>
*[[November 10]] – [[Kurt Eggers]], German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright (killed in action [[1943 in literature|1943]])
*[[December 4]] – [[Munro Leaf]], American children's author (died [[1974 in literature|1974]])
*[[December 12]]
**[[Mulk Raj Anand]], Indian novelist (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])
**[[Vasily Grossman]], Russian novelist and writer (died [[1964 in literature|1964]])
* [[December 13]] – [[Ann Barzel]], American writer and dance critic (died [[2007 in literature|2007]])<ref>{{cite book|author=June Skinner Sawyers|title=Chicago Portraits: New Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qojgLBuEFEUC&pg=PA29|date=31 March 2012|publisher=Northwestern University Press|isbn=978-0-8101-2649-7|pages=29}}</ref>
*[[December 21]] – [[Anthony Powell]], English novelist (died [[2000 in literature|2000]])<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Nicholas Birns]] |title=Understanding Anthony Powell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6wDJd7XejHcC&pg=PA1|year=2004|publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-57003-549-4|pages=1}}</ref>
*[[December 22]] – [[Kenneth Rexroth]], American poet and critic (died [[1982 in literature|1982]])
*[[December 30]] (December 17 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) – [[Daniil Kharms]], born Daniil Ivánovich Yuvatchov, Russian surrealist, children's writer, absurdist poet, short prose author and dramatist (died [[1942 in literature|1942]])
*''Unknown date'' – [[Culai Neniu]], Moldovan folklorist and dramatist (shot [[1939 in literature|1939]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 2]] – [[Clara Augusta Jones Trask]], American writer and dime novelist (born [[1839 in literature|1839]])<ref name="ulib.niu.edu">{{cite web| title=Trask, Clara Augusta Jones| url=http://www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/trask_clara.html| publisher=Northern Illinois University| access-date=16 April 2017}}</ref>
*[[January 19]] – [[Debendranath Tagore]], Hindu philosopher and religious reformer (born [[1817 in literature|1817]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew Robinson|title=The Art of Rabindranath Tagore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icefAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Rupa|page=46}}</ref>
*[[January 21]] – [[Clara Harrison Stranahan]], American author; founder of Barnard College (born [[1831 in literature|1831]])
*[[January 28]] – [[Cordelia A. Greene]], American physician, reformer, benefactor (born [[1831 in literature|1831]])
*[[February 15]] – [[Lew Wallace]], American novelist and general (born [[1827 in literature|1827]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Masterplots: Cyclopedia of world authors; seven hundred fifty three novelists, poets, playwrights from the world's fine literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fe_XAAAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Salem Press|page=1122}}</ref>
*[[February 26]] – [[Marcel Schwob]], French writer (pneumonia, born [[1867 in literature|1867]])
*[[March 20]] – [[Antonin Proust]], French journalist and politician (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])<ref>{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Proust, Antonin|volume=22|page=490}}</ref>
*[[March 24]] – [[Jules Verne]], French novelist (born [[1828 in literature|1828]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Edmund J. Smyth|title=Jules Verne: Narratives of Modernity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=15dUa_WG-h4C&pg=PA45|year=2000|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-704-4|pages=45}}</ref>
*[[April 9]] – [[Sarah Chauncey Woolsey]] (Susan Coolidge), American children's writer (born [[1835 in literature|1839]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Connecticut Nutmegger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jYVYAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Connecticut Society of Genealogists|page=40}}</ref>
*[[April 18]] – [[Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano]], Spanish realist novelist (born [[1824 in literature|1824]])
*[[May 23]] – [[Mary Livermore]], American journalist and women's rights activist (born [[1820 in literature|1820]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101199520/mrs-mary-livermore-dies-at-advanced-age/ |title=Mrs. Mary Livermore Dies at Advanced Age |newspaper=[[The Birmingham News]] |location=Melrose, Massachusetts |page=1 |date=1905-05-23 |access-date=2022-05-06 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
*[[July 13]] – [[Lisa Anne Fletcher]],  American poet, correspondent (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])<ref name="TheBG-15jul1905">{{cite news |title=Obituary, Lisa Anne Fletcher. Died July 13, 1905, Manchester, New Hampshire. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114436612/obituary-lisa-anne-fletcher-died-july/ |access-date=11 December 2022 |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |date=15 July 1905 |pages=10}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
*[[August 14]] – [[Gertrude Bloede]] (Stuart Sterne), American poet (born [[1845 in literature|1845]])<ref>{{Cite DAB|title=Bloede, Gertrude|year=1929|author=Sarah G. Bowerman}}</ref> 
*[[August 22]] – [[David Binning Monro]], Scottish Homeric scholar (born [[1836 in literature|1836]])<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Monro, David Binning (1836–1905), classical scholar|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35070|access-date=2020-12-07|year=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35070|last1=Phelps|first1=L. R.|editor1-first=Richard|editor1-last=Smail}}</ref>
*[[September 18]] – [[George MacDonald]], Scottish poet, writer and minister (born [[1824 in literature|1824]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Aberdeen University Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XI8mAQAAIAAJ|year=1925|publisher=Aberdeen University Press|page=1}}</ref>
*[[October 3]] – [[José-Maria de Heredia]], French poet (born [[1842 in literature|1842]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=O. Classe|author2=[Anonymus AC02468681]|title=Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=myLDA0_brhcC&pg=PA634|year=2000|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-884964-36-7|pages=634}}</ref>
*[[October 6]] – [[Hibbard H. Shedd]], American politician and novelist (born [[1847 in literature|1847]])<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=03JNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA168 Hibbard Houston Shedd], Nebraska State Historical Society publications (Volume 15)], p. 168-74 (1907)</ref>
*[[October 13]] – Sir [[Henry Irving]], English actor (born [[1838 in literature|1838]])<ref name="Richards2005"/>
*[[October 28]] – [[Alphonse Allais]], French humorist (born [[1854 in literature|1854]])
*[[November 30]] – [[Susannah V. Aldrich]], American author and hymnwriter (born [[1828 in literature|1828]])
*[[December 3]] – [[John Bartlett (publisher)|John Bartlett]], American lexicographer and publisher (born [[1820 in literature|1820]])
*[[December 9]] – Sir [[Richard Claverhouse Jebb]], Scottish classicist and politician (born [[1841 in literature|1841]])
*[[December 11]] – [[Paul Meurice]], French novelist and playwright (born [[1818 in literature|1818]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The French Review, Volumes 14–15|publisher=American Association of Teachers of French|year=1941|page=117}}</ref>
*[[December 12]] – [[William Sharp (writer)|William Sharp]], Scottish poet, biographer and novelist (born [[1855 in literature|1855]])<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-36041|title=Sharp, William [pseud. Fiona MacLeod] (1855–1905), novelist and mystic|year=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/36041|access-date=2020-02-25|last1=Pittock|first1=Murray G. H.}}</ref>
*[[December 20]] – [[Henry Harland]] (Sidney Luska), American novelist and editor (tuberculosis, born [[1861 in literature|1861]])
*[[December 29]] – [[Victor Daley]] (Creeve Roe), Australian poet (tuberculosis, born [[1858 in literature|1858]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's who in Australia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AY8LAAAAIAAJ|year=1922|publisher=The Herald|page=303}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Newdigate Prize]]: Arthur Robert Reade, "Garibaldi"<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Robert Reade|title=Garibaldi: The Newdigate Poem, 1905|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B3U1AAAAMAAJ|year=1905|publisher=B.H. Blackwell}}</ref>
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Burton Feldman|title=The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xnckeeTICn0C&pg=PA106|year=2000|publisher=Arcade Publishing|isbn=978-1-55970-592-9|pages=106}}</ref>

==References==
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