- 1873 in literature
The year 1873 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
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March 3 - The U.S. Congress enacts theComstock Law , making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
*Bertha Kinsky becomes governess to the Suttner family.
*Charles M. Barnes opens his first store inWheaton, Illinois , the genesis ofBarnes & Noble .New books
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Louisa May Alcott - ""
*Ambrose Bierce - "The Fiend's Delight "
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "Publicans and Sinners "
*Rhoda Broughton
**"Nancy"
**"Tales for Christmas Eve "
*Bankim Chatterjee - "The Poison Tree "
*Wilkie Collins
**"Miss or Mrs.? "
**"The New Magdalen "*Edwin W. Fuller - "Sea-gift "
*Emile Gaboriau - "La Corde au cou "
*Thomas Hardy - "A Pair of Blue Eyes "
*William Dean Howells - "A Chance Acquaintance"
*George MacDonald - "The History of Gutta-Percha Willie, the Working Genius"
*Jules Verne - "Around the World in Eighty Days"New drama
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Henrik Ibsen - "Emperor and Galilean "Poetry
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Paul Bourget - "Au bord de la mer"
*Tristan Corbière - only published work included in "Les Amours Jaunes"
*Edmund Gosse - "On Viol and Flute"
*Arthur Rimbaud - "Une Saison en Enfer "Non-fiction
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Émile Littré - "Dictionnaire de la langue française "
*Leslie Stephen - "Essays on Free Thinking and Plain Speaking"
*Mark Twain (withCharles Warner ) - "The Gilded Age "
*Charlotte Mary Yonge - "Life ofJohn Coleridge Patteson "Births
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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 )
*June 16 -Lady Ottoline Morrell , patron of authors and artists (†1938 )
*September 8 -Alfred Jarry , dramatist (†1907 )
*December 7 -Willa Cather (†1947 )
*December 17 -Ford Madox Ford (†1939 )Deaths
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January 9 -Sigurd Abel , historian
*January 10 -Francesco Dall'Ongaro , poet and dramatist
*January 18 -Edward George Bulwer-Lytton , author
*February 1 -Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda , novelist
*February 7 -Sheridan Le Fanu , writer
*February 24 -Spiridon Trikoupis , author and orator
*May 8 -John Stuart Mill , philosopher
*May 22 -Alessandro Manzoni , poet and novelist
*May 27 -Pierre-Antoine Lebrun , poet
*August 15 -Edward Meredith Cope , classical scholar
*September 25 -Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi , novelist
*September 26 -Julius Roerich Benedix , dramatist
*September 28 -Emile Gaboriau , novelist
*October 4 -Margaret Gatty , children's authorAwards
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