See also: 1872 in literature, other events of 1873, 1874 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents

1 Events 2 New books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

New books

• Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
• La Corde au cou - Emile Gaboriau
• Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
• The Fiend's Delight - Ambrose Bierce
• The Gilded Age - Mark Twain (with Charles Warner )
• Miss or Mrs.? - Wilkie Collins
• Nancy - Rhoda Broughton
• The New Magdalen - Wilkie Collins
• The Poison Tree - Bankim Chatterjee
• Publicans and Sinners - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Quatre-vingt-treize - Victor Hugo
• Sea-gift - Edwin W. Fuller
• Tales for Christmas Eve - Rhoda Broughton
• - Louisa May Alcott
• Une saison en enfer - Arthur Rimbaud

Births

• January 20 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel prize winner († 1950)
• January 28 - Colette, writer († 1954)
• April 22 - Ellen Glasgow († 1945)
• May 17 - Henri Barbusse († 1935)
• December 7 - Willa Cather († 1947)
• December 17 - Ford Madox Ford († 1939)

Deaths

• January 18 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author
• February 7 - Sheridan Le Fanu, writer
• September 28 - Emile Gaboriau, novelist

Awards