1875 in literature
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The year 1875 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- October 1 - American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground with a larger memorial marker. Some controversy arose years later as to whether the correct body was exhumed.
- Flammarion publishing house founded in Paris, France.
[edit] New books
- William Harrison Ainsworth - The Goldsmith's Wife
- Louisa May Alcott - Eight Cousins
- Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Alice Lorraine
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Hostages to Fortune
- Wilkie Collins - The Law and the Lady
- Alphonse Daudet - Contes du Lundi
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - A Raw Youth
- Benito Pérez Galdós - Saragossa
- Francis Galton - History of Twins
- William Dean Howells - A Foregone Conclusion
- Julia Kavanagh - John Dorrien
- José Maria de Eça de Queiroz - O Crime do Padre Amaro
- Anthony Trollope - The Way We Live Now
- Jules Verne - The Survivors of the Chancellor
- Edmund Yates - Two, by Tricks
- Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Brother's Wife
- Emile Zola - La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret
[edit] New drama
[edit] Poetry
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Sonnets and Songs of Proteus
- Alice Meynell - Preludes
[edit] Non-fiction
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, volume 1
- Swami Dayanand - Satyarth Prakash
- Lysander Spooner - Vices Are Not Crimes, A Vindication of Moral Liberty
[edit] Births
- February 8 - Valentine O'Hara, Irish author and authority on Russia and the Baltic States (d. 1945)
- April 1 - Edgar Wallace, English thriller writer (d. 1932)
- April 9 – Jacques Futrelle, American author, RMS Titanic victim (d. 1912)
- April 18 - Oskar Ernst Bernhardt (Abdruschin), German author (d. 1941)
- June 6 - Thomas Mann, German novelist, Nobe Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- July 26 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
- August 21 - Winnifred Eaton, Canadian author (d. 1954)
- September 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, "Tarzan" novelis (d. 1950)
- August 26 - John Buchan, novelist and diplomat (d. 1940)
- December 4 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (d. 1926)
[edit] Deaths
- January 23 - Charles Kingsley, English novelist (b. 1819)
- March 1 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
- June 2 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
- June 4 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
- June 18 - António Feliciano de Castilho, Portuguese poet and author (b. 1800)
- August 4 - Hans Christian Andersen, author of fairy tales (b. 1805)
- August 12 - János Kardos, evangelical priest, teacher and writer (b. 1801)
- October 10 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, novelist and dramatist (b. 1817)
- October 24 - Jacques Paul Migne, French priest, theologian, and publisher (b. 1800)
