1874 in literature

Events

New Books

• L'Après-midi d'un faune[?] - Stéphane Mallarmé
• Beauchamp's Career[?] - George Meredith
• Cobwebs from an Empty Skull[?] - Ambrose Bierce
• Les Diaboliques[?] - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
• Le drageoir aux epices[?] - Joris-Karl Huysmans
• The Frozen Deep and Other Stories[?] - Wilkie Collins
• Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush Life[?] - Anthony Trollope
• The Impending Sword[?] - Edmund Yates[?]
• Johnny Ludlow[?] - Mrs. Henry Wood[?]
• Lady Anna[?] - Anthony Trollope
• Lost For Love[?] - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Mysterious Island[?] - Jules Verne
• A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest[?] - Amelia Edwards[?]
• Other People's Money[?] - Emile Gaboriau
• The Pirate City[?] - RM Ballantyne
• Prudence Palfrey[?] - Thomas Bailey Aldrich[?]
• The Rising Sun[?] - William Wells Brown[?]
• A Rose in June[?] - Margaret Oliphant[?]
• The Temptation of Saint Anthony[?] - Gustave Flaubert

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 (+ 1936)
• November 30 - Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Awards