1874 in literature
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See also: 1873 in literature, other events of 1874, 1875 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
- Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush Life
- Lady Anna
- Jules Verne - The Mysterious Island
- Mrs. Henry Wood -Johnny Ludlow
- Edmund Yates - The Impending Sword
- Émile Zola - La Conquête de Plassans
[edit] New drama
[edit] Poetry
- Stéphane Mallarmé - L'Après-midi d'un faune
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
