Editing 1875 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1875'''.

==Events==
[[Image:Poe Grave at Westminster 1.jpg|right|thumb|Edgar Allan Poe's reburial and new monument, October 1, 1875.]]
*[[January 16]] – [[Henry James Byron]]'s comedy ''[[Our Boys]]'' opens at the [[Vaudeville Theatre]] in London. It becomes the world's longest-running play until the 1890s, with 1,362 performances up to April 1879.<ref>Michael R. Booth, Review of plays by H. J. Byron including ''Our Boys'' in ''[[Modern Language Review]]'', '''82''':3, pp. 716–717 (July 1987: Modern Humanities Research Association).</ref> It also opens this year in [[New York City|New York]], at the New Fifth Avenue Theatre.
*February/March – [[Arthur Rimbaud]] meets [[Paul Verlaine]] in [[Stuttgart]], Germany, after Verlaine's release from prison, and gives him the manuscript of his poems ''[[Illuminations (poems)|Illuminations]]''. Rimbaud stops writing literature entirely at the age of 20.
*[[February 12]] – [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] is introduced (by [[Leslie Stephen]]) to fellow writer [[W. E. Henley]], at this time (August 1873–April 1875) a patient of surgeon [[Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister|Joseph Lister]] in the [[Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh]]. He will be the model for [[Long John Silver]]. Henley also meets his future wife while in hospital and writes the poems collected as ''In Hospital''.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Ernest |last=Mehew |title=Henley, William Ernest (1849–1903) |work=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |edition=Online |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33817 |accessdate=2014-05-29 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33817}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref>
*[[April 28]] – [[Henry James]] publishes ''Transatlantic Sketches''.
*[[October 1]] – American poet and short story writer [[Edgar Allan Poe]] is reburied in [[Westminster Hall and Burying Ground]], [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], with a larger memorial marker. Controversy arises years later as to whether the correct body was exhumed.
*[[December 6]] – The German emigrant ship [[SS Deutschland (1866)|SS ''Deutschland'']] runs aground on the [[Kentish Knock]] off the English coast, causing the death of 157 passengers and crew and inspiring [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]]' poem ''[[The Wreck of the Deutschland]]''. This introduces his innovative [[sprung rhythm]] and [[Metre (poetry)|metre]], but is rejected for publication in 1876. It will not appear finally until [[1918 in literature|1918]].
*''unknown dates''
**The [[Flammarion Publishing|Flammarion publishing]] firm is founded in [[Paris]], France.
**[[Isaac K. Funk]] establishes the U.S. publisher I. K. Funk & Company, predecessor of [[Funk & Wagnells]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Madeleine B. Stern|title=Imprints on History: Book Publishers and American Frontiers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=USIZAAAAMAAJ|year=1956|publisher=Indiana University Press|page=348}}</ref>
**Caroline M. Hewins begins a children's library in [[Hartford, Connecticut]], after becoming librarian of the local Young Men's Institute.<ref>{{cite book|author=Holly G. Willett|title=Public Library Youth Services: A Public Policy Approach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eTtP7Ytt9FMC&pg=PA83|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-56750-122-3|pages=83}}</ref>
**''[[Nebelspalter]]'' is founded by Jean Nötzli of [[Zürich]] (Switzerland) as an "illustrated humorous political weekly".<ref>{{cite book|author=Salvatore Attardo|title=Encyclopedia of Humor Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PpztBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA476|accessdate=13 April 2015|date=18 March 2014|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4833-6471-1|page=308}}</ref>

==New books==
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===Fiction===
*[[William  Harrison Ainsworth]] 
** ''The Goldsmith's Wife''
** ''[[Preston Fight (novel)|Preston Fight]]''
*[[Jose de Alencar]] – ''Senhora''
*[[William Black (novelist)|William Black]] – ''Three Feathers''
*[[Bjornstjerne Martinius Bjornson]] – ''Kaptejn Mansana (Captain Mansanna)''
*[[R. D. Blackmore]] – ''[[Alice Lorraine]]''
*[[Mary Elizabeth Braddon]] – ''Hostages to Fortune'', ''A Strange World''
*[[Wilkie Collins]] – ''[[The Law and the Lady (novel)|The Law and the Lady]]''
*[[Alphonse Daudet]] – ''Contes du Lundi''
*[[John William De Forest]] – ''Playing the Mischief''
*[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] – ''[[The Raw Youth]]''
*[[Bonifaciu Florescu]] – ''Etiam contra omnes (Even against All)''
*[[Benito Pérez Galdós]]  – ''Saragossa''
*[[Josiah Gilbert Holland]] – ''The Story of Sevenoaks''
*[[William Dean Howells]] – ''A Foregone Conclusion''
*[[Henry James]] – ''[[Roderick Hudson]]'', ''The Passionate Pilgrim and Other Stories''
*[[Julia Kavanagh]] – ''John Dorrien''
*[[Ellen Buckingham Mathews|Helen Mathers]] – ''Comin' thro' the Rye''<ref>{{cite book |first=Q. D. |last=Leavis |authorlink=Q. D. Leavis |title=Fiction and the Reading Public |edition=2nd |location=London |publisher=Chatto & Windus |year=1965}}</ref>
*[[Karl May]] – ''Old Firehand''
*[[José Maria de Eça de Queiroz]] – ''[[O Crime do Padre Amaro]] (The Crime of Father Amaro: Scenes of Religious Life)''
*[[George Sand]] – ''Flamarande''
*[[Maurice Thompson]] – ''Hoosier Mosaics''
*[[Anthony Trollope]] – ''[[The Way We Live Now]]'' (serial publication ends in September; publication in two book volumes in June)
*[[Jules Verne]] – ''[[The Survivors of the Chancellor]] (Le Chancellor: Journal du passager J.-R. Kazallon)'' and "[[The Mysterious Island]]"
*[[Constance Fenimore Woolson]] – ''Castle Nowhere: Lake Country Sketches''
*[[Edmund Yates]] – ''Two, by Tricks''
*[[Charlotte Mary Yonge]] – ''The Brother's Wife''
*[[Émile Zola]] – ''[[La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret]]'' (The Sin of Father Mouret)

===Children and young people===
*[[Georgina Castle Smith]] – ''Froggy's Little Brother'' (approximate year)
*[[Louisa May Alcott]] – ''[[Eight Cousins]]''
*[[George MacDonald]] – ''The Lost Princess'' (originally ''The Wise Woman'')
*[[Mary Louisa Molesworth]] (Mrs. Molesworth) – ''Tell Me a Story''

===Drama===
*[[Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson]] – ''En fallit'' (The Bankrupt)
*[[Henri de Bornier]] – ''La Fille de Roland''
*[[H. J. Byron]] – ''[[Our Boys]]''
*[[José Echegaray]] – ''En el puño de la espada'' (The Handle of the Sword)
*[[Guy de Maupassant]] – ''[[:fr:À la feuille de rose, maison turque|À la feuille de rose, maison turque]]''
*[[Alfred Tennyson]] – ''Queen Mary''

===Poetry===
*[[Wilfrid Scawen Blunt]] – ''Sonnets and Songs of Proteus''
*[[Robert Browning]] – ''Aristophanes' Apology''
*[[Alice Meynell]] – ''Preludes''
*''See also [[1875 in poetry]]''

===Non-fiction===
*''[[Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie]]'', vol. 1
*[[Matthew Arnold]] – ''God and the Bible''
*[[Bartolomé de las Casas]] (died 1566) – ''History of the Indies'' (written 1527–61)
*[[Thomas Carlyle]] – ''The Early Kings of Norway''
*[[Swami Dayanand]] – ''[[Satyarth Prakash]]''
*[[Charles Wentworth Dilke]] (died 1864) – ''Papers of a Critic''
*[[Edward Dowden]] – ''Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art''
*[[Mary Baker Eddy]] – ''[[Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures]]''
*[[Warren Felt Evans]] – ''Soul and Body''
*[[Francis Galton]] – "The History of Twins, as a criterion of the relative powers of nature and nurture" (''[[Fraser's Magazine]]'', vol. 12, pp. 566–76)
*[[Charles Greville (diarist)]] – ''Memoirs''
*[[Augustus Hare]] – ''Days Near Rome''
*[[Henry James]] – ''Transatlantic Sketches''
*[[William Macready]] – ''Macready's Reminiscences and Selections from his Diaries and Letters''
*[[Charles Nordhoff (journalist)]] – ''Communistic Societies of the United States''
*[[Mark Pattison (academic)|Mark Pattison]] – ''[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001181289 Isaac Casaubon, 1559–1614]''
*[[Baron Jules Dupotet de Sennevoy]] – ''La Magie dévoilée''
*[[William Tecumseh Sherman]] – ''Memoirs''
*[[George Smith (Assyriologist)]] – ''Assyrian Discoveries: An Account of Explorations and Discoveries on the Site of Nineveh, During 1873 to 1874'' (on the discovery of the Epic of Gilgamesh)
*[[Lysander Spooner]] – ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20061201113303/http://www.lysanderspooner.org/VicesAreNotCrimes.htm Vices Are Not Crimes, A Vindication of Moral Liberty]''
*[[Leslie Stephen]] – ''Hours in a Library, Volume 1''
*[[John Addington Symonds]]
**''The Age of the Despots'' (first volume of ''Renaissance in Italy'')
**''[[Picturesque Europe]]''

==Births==
*[[January 4]] – [[William Williams (Crwys)]], Welsh poet (died [[1968 in poetry|1968]])
*[[February 8]] – [[Valentine O'Hara]], Irish author and authority on Russia and Baltic (died [[1945 in literature|1945]])
*[[March 30]] – [[Edmund Clerihew Bentley]], English writer (died [[1956 in literature|1956]])
*[[April 1]] – [[Edgar Wallace]] (Richard Horatio Edgar), English thriller writer (died [[1932 in literature|1932]])
*[[April 9]] – [[Jacques Futrelle]], American author (died in ''Titanic'' [[1912 in literature|1912]])
*[[April 18]]
** [[Oskar Ernst Bernhardt]] (Abdruschin), German author (died [[1941 in literature|1941]])
** [[Katherine Thurston]] (Katherine Cecil Madden), Irish novelist (died [[1911 in literature|1911]])
*[[June 6]] – [[Thomas Mann]], German novelist and Nobel Prize winner (died [[1955 in literature|1955]])
*[[June 24]] – [[Forrest Reid]], Irish novelist and literary critic (died [[1947 in literature|1947]])
*[[July 9]] – [[W. W. Greg]], English literary scholar (died [[1959 in literature|1959]])
*[[July 19]] – [[Alice Dunbar Nelson]] African American poet, journalist and political activist of the [[Harlem Renaissance]] (died [[1935 in literature|1935]])
*[[July 26]] – [[Antonio Machado]], Spanish poet (died [[1939 in literature|1939]])
*[[August 2]] – [[Helena Romer-Ochenkowska]], Polish writer, playwright, opinion journalist and theatre critic (died [[1947 in literature|1947]])
*[[August 21]] – [[Winnifred Eaton (writer)|Winnifred Eaton]], Canadian author (died [[1954 in literature|1954]])
*[[August 26]] – [[John Buchan]], Scottish novelist and diplomat (died [[1940 in literature|1940]])
*[[September 1]] – [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]], American popular novelist (died [[1950 in literature|1950]])
*[[October 13]] – [[Armand Praviel]], French poet, novelist, and journalist (died [[1944 in literature|1944]])
*[[October 25]] – [[Carolyn Sherwin Bailey]], American author and educator (died [[1961 in literature|1961]])<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=D.L.|editor-last=Kirkpatrick|title=Twentieth-century Children's Writers|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1978|isbn=978-0-33323-414-3|page=465}}</ref>
*October – [[George Ranetti]], Romanian humorist and playwright (died [[1928 in literature|1928]])
*[[December 4]] – [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], Austrian poet (died [[1926 in literature|1926]])
*''unknown date'' – [[Gertrude Minnie Faulding]], English children's writer and novelist (died [[1961 in literature|1961]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 3]] – [[Pierre Larousse]], French [[grammar]]ian and [[lexicography|lexicographer]] (born [[1817 in literature|1817]])
*[[January 23]] – [[Charles Kingsley]], English novelist and cleric (born [[1819 in literature|1819]])
*[[March 1]] – [[Tristan Corbière]], French poet (born [[1845 in literature|1845]])
*[[March 25]] – [[Louis Amédée Achard]], French novelist (born [[1814 in France|1814]])
*[[April 20]] – [[Emilia Marryat]], English children's writer (born c. 1835)<ref name="Norris1876">{{cite book|author=Emilia Marryat Norris|title=Paul Howard's captivity; and why he escaped|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJ0NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6|year=1876|publisher=Griffith and Farran|pages=6}}</ref>
*[[June 2]] – [[Józef Kremer]], Polish philosopher (born [[1806 in literature|1806]])
*[[June 4]] – [[Eduard Mörike]], German poet (born [[1804 in literature|1804]])
*[[June 18]] – [[António Feliciano de Castilho]], Portuguese poet and author (born [[1800 in literature|1800]])
*[[August 4]] – [[Hans Christian Andersen]], Danish fairy-tale writer (born [[1805 in literature|1805]])
*[[August 12]] – [[János Kardos]], Slovenian [[Lutheranism|Evangelical]] priest, teacher, and writer (born [[1801 in literature|1801]])
*[[August 19]] – [[Robert Elis (Cynddelw)]], Welsh writer (born [[1812 in literature|1812]])
*[[October 10]] – [[Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy]], Russian poet, novelist and dramatist (born [[1817 in literature|1817]])
*[[October 24]] – [[Jacques Paul Migne]], French priest, theologian, and publisher (born [[1800 in literature|1800]])
*[[November 17]] – [[Hilario Ascasubi]], Argentine poet (born [[1807 in literature|1807]])

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