1875 in literature

1875 in literature

The year 1875 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

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*American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground on October 1, 1875 with a larger memorial marker. Some controversy arose years later regarding if the correct body was exhumed.
* Flammarion publishing house founded in Paris, France.

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"

New drama

*Henry James Byron - "Our Boys"

Poetry

*Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - "Sonnets and Songs of Proteus"
*Alice Meynell - "Preludes"

Non-fiction

*"Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie", volume 1
*Lysander Spooner - " [http://lysanderspooner.org/VicesAreNotCrimes.htm Vices Are Not Crimes, A Vindication of Moral Liberty] "

Births

* April 9 – Jacques Futrelle, American author, RMS "Titanic" victim (d. 1912)
* September 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs (+ 1950)
* August 26 - John Buchan (+ 1940)

Deaths

* August 4 - Hans Christian Andersen

Awards

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