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1904 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1904.

Contents

Events

  • January
  • Mark Twain begins dictating his Autobiography.
  • First issue of Süddeutsche Monatshefte, published in Munich by Paul Nikolaus Cossmann.
  • January 17Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard («Вишнëвый сад», Vishnevyi sad), premières at the Moscow Art Theatre directed by Constantin Stanislavski.
  • February 25 – J. M. Synge's tragedy Riders to the Sea is first performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theatre Society.
  • March 1Sophie Radford de Meissner's translation of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's 1863 historical drama Ivan the Terrible is first performed at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway, New York City, by Richard Mansfield.
  • April 24Lithuanian press ban in the Russian Empire lifted.
  • May 10 – Following the death on 22 February of her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf suffers a mental breakdown.
  • June 16 – The original "Bloomsday", the day James Joyce first walks out with Nora Barnacle (a chambermaid whom he first met on June 10), to the Dublin suburb of Ringsend, and on which the action of his novel Ulysses (1922) is set.
  • June 28Anton Chekhov, dying of tuberculosis at Badenweiler, writes to his sister Masha, saying his health is improving. He dies just over two weeks later.
  • September – Mark Twain purchases a home at 21 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
  • November 1
  • George Bernard Shaw's comedy about Ireland, John Bull's Other Island, opens at the Royal Court Theatre, London, under the management of Harley Granville-Barker after W. B. Yeats rejects it for Dublin's Abbey Theatre.
  • The Stephen family have moved to a home at 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, where Virginia Woolf joins them about November 8. Here the Bloomsbury Group will form.
  • December 21 – The first of Virginia Woolf's writings to be accepted for publication, "Haworth, November 1904", an account of a visit to the Brontë family home, is published anonymously in a women's supplement to a clerical journal, The Guardian. (A book review, written later, has been published in the same journal a week earlier.)
  • December 24 – The Coliseum Theatre in London opens.
  • December 27
  • The Irish National Theatre Society (Abbey Theatre) opens to the public in Dublin for the first time. The bill consists of three one-act plays, On Baile's Strand and Cathleen Ní Houlihan by Yeats and Spreading the News by Lady Gregory.
  • J. M. Barrie's stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premières at the Duke of York's Theatre in London with Nina Boucicault in the title rôle and Gerald du Maurier as Captain Hook and Mr. Darling; du Maurier is the uncle of the Llewellyn Davies boys who inspired the story.
  • Alexander Blok's poetry cycle Stikhi o prekrasnoi Dame ("Verses to the Beautiful Lady"), written to his new wife, ushers in the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.
  • A seven-year-old Wasif Jawhariyyeh begins keeping his diaries, later acclaimed as masterpieces of modern Arabic and Jerusalemite literature.
  • The Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 journées de Sodome), written in 1785, is first published, by Berlin sexologist Dr. Iwan Bloch (as "Dr. Eugen Dühren")
  • Translations of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace into English by Constance Garnett and by Leo Wiener are published.
  • Herbert Beerbohm Tree establishes what will become the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, at His Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket (London).
  • Fiction

  • Hall CaineThe Prodigal Son
  • G. K. Chesterton – The Napoleon of Notting Hill
  • Joseph ConradNostromo
  • Machado de AssisEsaú e Jacó
  • Alexandre Dumas translated by Alfred Richard AllinsonThe Wolf Leader
  • Claude FarrèreFumée d'opium (Black Opium)
  • John GalsworthyThe Island Pharisees
  • Frederic HarrisonTheophano, The Crusade of the Tenth Century
  • O. Henry – Cabbages and Kings
  • Robert HerrickThe Common Lot
  • Hermann HessePeter Camenzind
  • William Henry HudsonGreen Mansions
  • Robert Smythe Hichens – The Garden of Allah
  • Henry JamesThe Golden Bowl
  • M. R. James – Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
  • Mary JohnstonSir Mortimer
  • James Joyce – "The Sisters"
  • Jack LondonThe Sea-Wolf
  • Arthur MorrisonThe Green Eye of Goona
  • I. L. Peretz – "The Magician" (דער קונצענמאכער, Der Kuntsenmakher; short story)
  • Vincas Pietaris – Algimantas (first prose novel written in the Lithuanian language)
  • Luigi PirandelloThe Late Mattia Pascal (Il Fu Mattia Pascal)
  • Władysław ReymontChłopi (The Peasants; publication commences)
  • Frederick RolfeHadrian the Seventh
  • Romain RollandJean-Christophe (vol. 1)
  • Rafael SabatiniThe Tavern Knight
  • SakiReginald
  • May SinclairThe Divine Fire
  • Katherine Thurston – John Chilcote, M.P.
  • Mark Twain – A Dog's Tale
  • Jules Verne
  • A Drama in Livonia
  • Master of the World
  • H. G. Wells – The Food of the Gods
  • Owen Wister
  • A Journey In Search of Christmas
  • Philosophy 4
  • Stefan ŻeromskiAshes (Popioły)
  • Children and young adults

  • L. Frank Baum – The Marvelous Land of Oz
  • Laura Lee Hope (pseudonym) – The Bobsey Twins (first of a series of 72)
  • Selma LagerlöfThe Treasure (Herr Arnes penningar)
  • E. Nesbit – The Phoenix and the Carpet
  • Beatrix PotterThe Tale of Benjamin Bunny
  • Leo TolstoyClassic Tales and Fables for Children
  • Drama

  • J. M. Barrie – Peter Pan
  • Anton Chekhov – The Cherry Orchard
  • Gabriele D'Annunzio – The Daughter of Iorio
  • Octave MirbeauFarces and Moralities
  • Erich MühsamThe Con Men
  • George Bernard ShawJohn Bull's Other Island
  • Tsubouchi Shōyō (坪内 逍遥)
  • Kiri Hitoha (A Paulownia Leaf; performed)
  • Shinkyoku Urashima (The New Urashima)
  • J. M. Synge – Riders to the Sea
  • Frank WedekindPandora's Box
  • Nik WelterDie Söhne des Öslings
  • Stanisław WyspiańskiNovember Night (Noc listopadowa)
  • Poetry

  • Zinaida Gippius – «Собрание стихов. 1889–1903» (Collected Poems, 1889–1903)
  • Giovanni PascoliPrimi poemetti and Primi conviviali
  • Non-fiction

  • A. C. Bradley – Shakespearean Tragedy
  • Ernst HaeckelKunstformen der Natur
  • Okakura Kakuzo (岡倉 覚三) – The Awakening of Japan
  • Thorstein VeblenThe Theory of Business Enterprise
  • Births

  • January 14Robert Speaight, English actor, biographer and essayist (died 1976)
  • January 22Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (died 1941)
  • January 23Louis Zukofsky, American modernist poet (died 1978)
  • February 1 – S. J. Perelman, American humorist and author (died 1979)
  • February 4MacKinlay Kantor, American historian (died 1977)
  • February 19 – Maurice O'Sullivan (Muiris Ó Súilleabháin), Irish memoirist (drowned 1950)
  • March 26Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology (died 1987)
  • April 27Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet (died 1972)
  • May 6Harry Martinson, Swedish author and Nobel laureate (died 1978)
  • May 20Margery Allingham, English writer of detective fiction (died 1966)
  • June 16Eileen Colwell, English children's librarian (died 2002)
  • July 13Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and Nobel laureate (died 1973)
  • August 4Witold Gombrowicz, Polish playwright and novelist (died 1969)
  • September – Abdulla Goran, Kurdish poet (died 1962)
  • November 28Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer (died 1973)
  • December 13Glen Byam Shaw, English theatrical director (died 1986)
  • December 21Johannes Edfelt, Swedish poet, translator and critic (died 1997)
  • December 26Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-born Cuban novelist (died 1980)
  • Unknown dateSoeman Hs, Indonesian (East Indies) novelist and short story writer (died 1999)
  • Deaths

  • January 3Larin Paraske, Finnish folk poet (born 1833)
  • January 20Hermann Eduard von Holst, German historian of the United States (born 1841)
  • February 8Alfred Ainger, English biographer and critic (born 1837)
  • February 22 – Sir Leslie Stephen, English essayist and critic (born 1832)
  • April 16Samuel Smiles, British reformer and writer, advocate of self-help (born 1812)
  • May 5Mór Jókai, Hungarian dramatist and novelist (born 1825)
  • June 5Olivia Langdon Clemens, American editor (born 1845)
  • July 3Theodor Herzl, Austro-Hungarian journalist (cardiac sclerosis, born 1860)
  • July 14 – Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (tuberculosis, born 1860)
  • August 22Kate Chopin (Kate O'Flaherty), American novelist and short story writer (brain hemorrhage, born 1850)
  • September 26Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo, 小泉 八雲), Greek-born writer in English on Japan (heart failure, born 1850)
  • October 11Trumbull Stickney, American classicist and poet (brain tumor, born 1874)
  • October 17 – Ștefan Petică, Romanian Symbolist poet and writer (tuberculosis, born 1877)
  • November 19 – Hans von Hopfen, German poet and novelist (born 1835)
  • Awards

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
  • First Prix Femina: Myriam Harry for La Conquête de Jérusalem
  • References

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