1875 in literature - Definition

See also: 1874 in literature, other events of 1875, 1876 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Flammarion publishing house founded in Paris, France.

New Books

• Alice Lorraine - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
• The Brother's Wife - Charlotte Mary Yonge
• Contes du Lundi - Alphonse Daudet
• A Foregone Conclusion - William Dean Howells
• The Goldsmith's Wife - William Harrison Ainsworth
• History of Twins - Francis Galton
• Hostages to Fortune - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Law and the Lady - Wilkie Collins
• A Raw Youth - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Saragossa - Galdos Benito Perez
• The Survivors Of The Chancellor - Jules Verne
• Two, by Tricks - Edmund Yates
• The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
• Eight Cousins - Louisa May Alcott

Births

• April 9 – Jacques Futrelle, American author, RMS Titanic victim (d. 1912)
• September 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs (+ 1950)
• August 26 - John Buchan (+ 1940)

Deaths

• August 4 - Hans Christian Andersen

Awards