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]
↑ Green, Peter (1982). Beyond the Wild Wood: the world of Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows. Exeter: Webb & Bower. p.161. ISBN0-906671-44-2.
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