1874 in literature
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The year 1874 in literature involved some significant new books.

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.

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

New drama

• W. S. Gilbert - Charity

Poetry

• Stéphane Mallarmé - L'Après-midi d'un faune

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

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

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

Awards