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Events relating to literature
Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Nostromo, about a revolution in South America and a fatal horde of silver
Helen Keller overcomes deafness and blindness to graduate cum laude at Radcliffe College in the USA
Henry James publishes his last completed novel, The Golden Bowl
Constantine Cavafy prints fourteen of his poems in a pamphlet for private distribution
J.M Barrie's play for children Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up has its premiere in London
Under the pseudonym Saki, H.H. Munro publishes Reginald, his first volume of short stories
The Bloomsbury Group gathers for informal evenings at the family home of Virginia and Vanessa Stephens (later Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell)
Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, a letter of recrimination written in Reading Gaol to Lord Alfred Douglas, is published posthumously
Edith Wharton publishes the novel that brings her fame and fortune, The House of Mirth
Beatrix Potter buys Hill Top Farm, in Sawrey, where for nearly thirty years she breeds a local variety of sheep
H.G. Wells publishes Kipps: the story of a simple soul, a comic novel about a bumbling draper's assistant
US philosopher George Santayana publishes the first of the five volumes of his Life of Reason
Thomas Dixon's popular novel The Clansman presents the Ku Klux Klan in heroic terms
Bernard Shaw has two new plays opening in London in the same year, Major Barbara and Man and Superman
Sir Percy Blakeney rescues aristocrats from the guillotine in Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel
Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a hard-hitting novel about the Chicago meat-packing industry
The first volume of the inexpensive Everyman's Library is issued by Joseph Dent, a London publisher
E. Nesbit publishes The Railway Children, the most successful of her books featuring the Bastable family
John Galsworthy publishes The Man of Property, the first of his novels chronicling the family of Soames Forsyte
J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World provokes violent reactions at its Dublin premiere
Russian author Maxim Gorky completes his novel Mat ("The Mother"), written mainly during a visit to the USA
Edmund Gosse publishes Father and Son, an account of his difficult relationship with his fundamentalist father, Philip Gosse
US philosopher William James publishes Pragmatism: a New Name for Old Ways of Thinking
James Joyce completes the eight short stories eventually published in 1914 as Dubliners
Swedish playwright August Strindberg publishes The Ghost Sonata, which has its first performance in Stockholm the following year
