Events
- Robert Frost sells his first poem, "My Butterfly", to The New York Independent for fifteen dollars.
- Hermann Hesse begins his apprenticeship at a factory in Calw.
- Lafcadio Hearn begins working as a journalist for the English-language Kobe Chronicle.
- Claude Debussy writes his Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, a free interpretation of Stéphane Mallarmé's 1876 poem, "L'après-midi d'un faune".
- Mary Antin emigrates from Belarus to the USA with her family.
- Scottish writer William Sharp publishes Pharais, his first novel under the pseudonym Fiona MacLeod.
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