October – Tristan Bernard has his first work published in La Revue Blanche, which returns to Parisian publication this month, and adopts his pseudonym.[8]
October 9 – Émile Zola's stage adaptation of his novel Thérèse Raquin (first performed in 1873) achieves a single London performance, its English stage première (at the Royalty Theatre). To evade the Lord Chamberlain's Office's censorship it has to be staged privately by the Independent Theatre Society, but still attracts criticism on moral grounds.
December – Thomas Hardy writes "The Son's Veto", which he regards as his best short story.
December 7 – Maurice Maeterlinck's play The Blind (Les aveugles) is premièred.
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Sophia Alice Callahan's Wynema, a Child of the Forest is published, the first work of fiction by a Native American woman in English.
Publication of the first complete one-volume popular German translation of Shakespeare's plays
^Bellamy, Richard (1993). Gramsci and the Italian state. Manchester, UK New York: Manchester University Press Distributed by St. Martin's Press. p. xiv. ISBN9780719033421.