June 28 – Chekhov, suffering from tuberculosis at Badenweiler, writes to his sister Masha saying his health is improving.[4] He dies just over two weeks later.
September – Mark Twain buys a home at 21 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
December 21 – The first of Virginia Woolf's published writings, "Haworth, November 1904", an account of a visit to the Brontë family home, appears anonymously in a women's supplement to a clerical journal, The Guardian.[6][7] (A book review written later has appeared in the same journal a week earlier.)[8]
^Nicolson, Nigel, ed. (1975). The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Vol. I: 1888–1912 (Virginia Stephen). London: Hogarth Press. ISBN 0701204036.
^Gordon, Lyndall (May 2005). "Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia (1882–1941)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37018. Retrieved 2015-02-08. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ abPenguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^Green, Peter (1982). Beyond the Wild Wood: the world of Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows. Exeter: Webb & Bower. p. 161. ISBN 0-906671-44-2.