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Overview of the events of 1906 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1906 .
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
Children and young people
January 6 –
Eberhard Wolfgang Möller , German playwright and poet (died
1972 )
January 9 –
Barbara Sleigh , English children's writer (died
1982 )
January 19 –
Robin Hyde (Iris Guiver Wilkinson), New Zealand poet and novelist (suicide
1939 )
January 22 –
Robert E. Howard , American fantasy author (suicide
1936 )
January 23 –
Anya Seton , American romantic author (died
1990 )
February 8 –
Henry Roth , American novelist and short story writer (died
1995 )
February 13 –
Máirtín Ó Cadhain , Irish language writer (died
1970 )
March 25 –
A. J. P. Taylor , English historian (died
1990 )
April 13 –
Samuel Beckett , Irish writer
Nobel laureate (died
1989 )
May 8 –
Esther Hoffe , Israeli mistress of
Max Brod (died
2007 )
May 9 –
Eleanor Estes , American librarian, author and illustrator (died
1988 )
May 21 –
Profira Sadoveanu , Romanian journalist, memoirist, biographer, editor and translator (died
2003 )
May 22 –
Lesbia Soravilla , Cuban writer (died
1989 )
June 23 –
Wolfgang Koeppen , German novelist (died
1996 )
June 27
July 4 –
Margaret Douglas-Home , English writer and musician (died
1996 )
July 18 –
Clifford Odets , American dramatist (died
1963 )
August 28 –
John Betjeman , English poet laureate (died
1984 )
August 30 –
Elizabeth Longford , English biographer (died
2002 )
September 1 –
Eleanor Hibbert , English romantic novelist under several pseudonyms (died
1993 )
September 25 –
Franklin Garrett , American local historian (died
2000 )
September 27 –
William Empson , English poet and literary critic (died
1984 )
30 September –
J. I. M. Stewart , Scottish-born novelist and academic critic (died
1994 )
October 10 –
R. K. Narayan , Indian novelist writing in English (died
2001 )
October 16 –
Dino Buzzati , Italian author (died
1972 )
October 14 –
Hannah Arendt , German-American intellectual (died
1975 )
November 12 –
George Dillon , American editor and poet (died
1968 )
November 13 –
John Sparrow , English literary scholar (died
1992 )
November 18 –
Klaus Mann , German-born novelist (died
1949 )
November 29 –
Barbara C. Freeman , English writer and poet (died
1999 )
[12]
November 30 –
John Dickson Carr , American detective fiction writer (died
1977 )
December 8 –
Richard Llewellyn , British novelist (died
1983 )
February 9 –
Paul Laurence Dunbar , American poet, novelist and playwright (born
1872 )
March 1 –
Lettie S. Bigelow , American poet and author (born
1849 )
March 2 –
Ellen Mary Clerke , English novelist, poet and writer on astronomy (born
1840 )
March 20
April 6 –
Alexander Kielland , Norwegian novelist (born
1849 )
April 11 –
Francis Pharcellus Church , American editor and publisher (born
1839 )
April 14 –
Nora Chesson , English poet (born
1871 )
May 5 –
Eliza Brightwen , Scottish naturalist (born
1830 )
May 23 –
Henrik Ibsen , Norwegian playwright (born
1828 )
June 29 –
Albert Sorel , French historian (born
1842 )
June 30 –
Jean Lorrain , French Symbolist poet (born
1855 )
August 17 –
Elizabeth Missing Sewell , English novelist and educationist (born
1815 )
August 19 –
Agnes Catherine Maitland , English academic, novelist and cookery writer (born
1850 )
September 10 –
Rose Porter , American religious novelist (born
1845 )
September 24 –
Charlotte Riddell , Anglo-Irish novelist and editor (born
1832 )
October 9 –
Wilhelmina FitzClarence, Countess of Munster , English novelist (born
1830 )
December 6 –
Anne Ross Cousin , English poet (born
1824 )
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