André Gide publishes La Porte étroite ('Strait is the Gate')

Jack London publishes his most autobiographical novel, Martin Eden

The heroine of H.G. Wells' novel Ann Veronica is a determined example of the New Woman

John Buchan publishes Prester John, the first of his adventure stories

H.G. Wells publishes The History of Mr Polly, a novel about an escape from drab everyday existence

E.M. Forster publishes Howard's End, his novel about the Schlegel sisters and the Wilcox family

D.H. Lawrence's career as a writer is launched with the publication of his first novel, The White Peacock

G.K. Chesterton's clerical detective makes his first appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown

In a German Pension is New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield's first collection of stories

Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes The Secret Garden, which becomes a classic of children's literature

Max Beerbohm publishes his novel Zuleika Dobson, in which the beauty of his heroine causes havoc among the students at Oxford

In O Pioneers Willa Cather finds her major theme, life on the frontier

In Pollyanna Eleanor Porter introduces an immensely successful character, the irrepressibly optimistic orphan Pollyanna Whittier

Compton Mackenzie publishes the first volume of his autobiographial novel Sinister Street