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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1906. ==Events== * February 8 - Writer Hilaire Belloc becomes a Liberal Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom. * February 15 - J. M. Dent and Company commence publication in the United Kingdom of the Everyman's Library series (under the editorship of Ernest Rhys) with Boswell's ''Life of Johnson''. * April 10–October 13 - Maxim Gorky visits the United States with his mistress, the actress Maria Andreyeva, to raise funds for the Bolsheviks. In the Adirondack Mountains he writes his novel of revolutionary conversion and struggle, ''The Mother'' (, ''Mat’''). The couple then retreat to Capri. * April 18 - The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroys the unfinished new building for Stanford University Library before it can be completed. Many of the city's leading poets and writers retreat to join the arts colony at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California as "The Barness". * May–October - Jack London's novel ''White Fang'' is serialized in the American magazine ''Outing''. * Pre-September - Last full-scale court performance of gambuh dance-drama in Bali. * September 1 - Annie Carroll Moore begins work as Superintendent of the Department of Work with Children at the New York Public Library. * September 18 - August Strindberg's naturalistic drama ''Miss Julie'' (''Fröken Julie''; written 1888) receives its first performance on the Swedish professional stage, on tour in Lund, under the direction of August Falck with Manda Bjorling in the title rôle and August Palme as Jean. It is first staged in Stockholm on December 13 at the ''Folkan'' ("People's Theatre"). * November 8 - Max Reinhardt inaugurates the ''Kammerspiele'' (a new stage for modern drama) at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin with a production of ''Ghosts'' by Henrik Ibsen (d. May 23) designed by Edvard Munch. * November 20 - Frank Wedekind's play ''Spring Awakening: A Children's Tragedy'' (''Frühlings Erwachen'', completed 1901) receives its first staging, as the second work to be presented at the Deutsches Theater's ''Kammerspiele'' in Berlin under the direction of Max Reinhardt. * December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. * Livraria Lello & Irmão opens a new bookstore in Porto (Portugal). * The magazine ''Eesti Kirjandus'' ("Estonian Literature") is founded in Estonia (at this time part of the Russian Empire) as part of the Estonian national awakening. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1906 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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