1873 in literature

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
• Sea-gift[?] - Edwin W. Fuller[?]
• Tales for Christmas Eve[?] - Rhoda Broughton
• Work: A Story of Experience[?] - Louisa May Alcott

Births

• 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