January – T. E. Hulme's poems "Autumn" and "A City Sunset" are included in the Poets' Club anthology For Christmas MDCCCCVIII, as the first examples of Imagism.
March 2 – Katherine Mansfield, while pregnant by another man, marries the singing teacher George Bowden, whom she barely knows. She leaves him the same evening to resume lesbian relations with Ida Baker.[3]
April
The opening night of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's drama Le Roi bombance (The Feasting King, written 1905) is heckled by the audience and the writer himself.
The German periodical Die Tat is founded by Ernst Horneffer.[4]
unknown date – Babelstornið (The Tower of Babel), by Rasmus Rasmussen, writing as Regin í Líð, becomes the first Faroese language novel to be published.[6]
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^Ernst Horneffer: Unsere Ziele, in: Die Tat, 1. Jg., Heft 1 (April/1909), p. 1 (German)
^Wagenbach, Klaus [in German] (1964). Franz Kafka, in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Reinbek: Rowohlt Verlag. p. 73. ISBN 3-499-50091-4.
^Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^Pearson, Sidney. "Herbert D. Croly: Apostle of Progressivism". The Heritage Foundation. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
^Baskett, Sam S. (Spring 1976). "Martin Eden: Jack London's Poem of the Mind". Modern Fiction Studies. 22 (1): 23–36. JSTOR 26280173?seq=1.
^Meadowcroft, Charles William. The Place of Eden Phillpotts in English Peasant Drama. University of Pennsylvania, 1924. Page 7.
^Per Hallström. "Critical Essay". Retrieved March 20, 2021.
^American Academy of Political and Social Science (1909). Race Improvement in the United States. American academy of political and social science. p. 175. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
^James, Edward T.; Wilson James, Janet; Boyer, Paul S. (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-67462-731-4.
^Crisp, Jane (1989). Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1904): A Bibliography. St. Lucia: Department of English, University of Queensland. p. 2. ISBN 9780867763607.