1874 in literature

1874 in literature

The year 1874 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Arthur William à Beckett joins the staff of "Punch".
*Johan Nicolai Madvig loses his sight, forcing him to give up most of his research and writing.
*Arthur Rimbaud goes to London with Germain Nouveau.
*Alexandre Dumas, fils, is elected to the Académie française.

New books

*Thomas Bailey Aldrich - "Prudence Palfrey"
*José de Alencar - "Ubirajara"
*Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly - "Les Diaboliques"
*R M Ballantyne -"The Pirate City"
*Ambrose Bierce - "Cobwebs from an Empty Skull"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "Lost For Love"
*William Wells Brown - "The Rising Sun"
*Wilkie Collins - "The Frozen Deep and Other Stories"
*Alphonse Daudet - "Fromont jeune et Risler aîné"
*Amelia Edwards - "A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest"
*Gustave Flaubert - "The Temptation of Saint Anthony"
*Emile Gaboriau - "Other People's Money"
*Thomas Hardy - "Far From the Madding Crowd"
*Victor Hugo - "Ninety-Three"
*Joris-Karl Huysmans - "Le drageoir aux epices"
*George Meredith - "Beauchamp's Career"
*Margaret Oliphant - "A Rose in June"
*Anthony Trollope
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*Jules Verne - "The Mysterious Island"
*Mrs. Henry Wood -"Johnny Ludlow"
*Edmund Yates - "The Impending Sword"
*Émile Zola - "La Conquête de Plassans"

New drama

*W. S. Gilbert - "Charity"

Poetry

*Stéphane Mallarmé - "L'Après-midi d'un faune"

Non-fiction

*Franz Brentano - "Psychologie vom Empirischen Standpunkte (Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint)"
*John William Draper - "A History of the Conflict between Religion and Science"
*Antonio Raimondi - "El Perú"
*Dorothy Wordsworth - "Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803"

Births

* January 16 - Robert W. Service, poet (+ 1958)
* January 25 - William Somerset Maugham, (+ 1965)
* February 1 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, writer (+ 1929)
* February 3 - Gertrude Stein, writer and patron of the arts (+ 1946)
* February 9 - Amy Lowell, poet (+ 1925)
* February 11 - Elsa Beskow (Maartman), Swedish children's book/fairy tales author.
* March 20 - Börries von Münchhausen, poet (+ 1945)
* March 26 - Robert Frost, poet (+ 1963)
* May 29 - G. K. Chesterton, writer (+ 1936)
* August 8 - Tristan Klingsor, poet (+ 1966)
* November 30 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, novelist

Deaths

*February 8 - David Strauss, theologian
*February 9 - Jules Michelet, historian
*March 3 - Francis Mason, grammarian and translator
*March 4 - Ada Clare, journalist
*June 19 - Jules Janin, critic
*July 7 - John Heneage Jesse, historian
*July 12 - Fritz Reuter, novelist
*August 8 - Augustin Theiner, theologian and historian
*October 5 - Bryan Procter, poet
*November 20 - Tom Hood, humorist
*"date unknown"
**Shirley Brooks, journalist and novelist
**Thomas Miller, poet
*Giuseppe Rovani, novelist
**Victor Séjour, novelist and dramatist
**Agnes Strickland, popular historian
**Joseph Tracy, newspaper editor and historian

Awards

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