1873 in literature
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The year 1873 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- 3 March - The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
- Bertha Kinsky becomes governess to the Suttner family.
- Charles M. Barnes opens his first store in Wheaton, Illinois, the genesis of Barnes & Noble.
- 18 December - Louisa May Alcott's family satire "Transcendental Wild Oats" is published in the Boston newspaper The Independent.
- The children's periodical St. Nicholas Magazine begins publication.
[edit] New books
- Louisa May Alcott - Work: A Story of Experience
- Ambrose Bierce - The Fiend's Delight
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Publicans and Sinners
- Rhoda Broughton
- Bankim Chatterjee - The Poison Tree
- Wilkie Collins
- Émile Gaboriau - La Corde au cou
- Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes
- William Dean Howells - A Chance Acquaintance
- George MacDonald - The History of Gutta-Percha Willie, the Working Genius
- Karolina Světlá - Nemodlenec
- Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days
[edit] New drama
- Henrik Ibsen - Emperor and Galilean (first published) and Love's Comedy (first performed)
- Émile Zola - Thérèse Raquin
[edit] Poetry
- Paul Bourget - Au bord de la mer
- Robert Browning - Red Cotton Night-Cap Country
- Tristan Corbière - only published work included in Les Amours Jaunes
- Edmund Gosse - On Viol and Flute
- Arthur Rimbaud - Une Saison en Enfer
[edit] Non-fiction
- Émile Littré - Dictionnaire de la langue française
- Leslie Stephen - Essays on Free Thinking and Plain Speaking
- Mark Twain (with Charles Warner) - The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
- Charlotte Mary Yonge - Life of John Coleridge Patteson
[edit] Births
- January 20 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel prize winner (d. 1950)
- January 28 - Colette, writer (d. 1954)
- April 22 - Ellen Glasgow (d. 1945)
- May 17 - Henri Barbusse (d. 1935)
- June 16 - Lady Ottoline Morrell, patron of authors and artists (d. 1938)
- September 8 - Alfred Jarry, dramatist (d. 1907)
- October 10 - George Cabot Lodge, poet (d. 1909)
- December 7 - Willa Cather (d. 1947)
- December 17 - Ford Madox Ford (d. 1939)
[edit] Deaths
- January 9 - Sigurd Abel, historian (b. 1837)
- January 10 - Francesco Dall'Ongaro, poet and dramatist (b. 1808)
- January 18 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author (b. 1803)
- February 1 - Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, novelist (b. 1814)
- February 7 - Sheridan Le Fanu, writer (b. 1814)
- February 24 - Spiridon Trikoupis, author and orator (b. 1788)
- May 8 - John Stuart Mill, philosopher (b. 1806)
- May 22 - Alessandro Manzoni, poet and novelist (b. 1785)
- May 27 - Pierre-Antoine Lebrun, poet (b. 1785)
- August 15 - Edward Meredith Cope, classical scholar (b. 1818)
- September 25 - Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi, novelist (b. 1804)
- September 26 - Julius Roerich Benedix, dramatist (b. 1811)
- September 28 - Émile Gaboriau, novelist (b. 1832)
- October 4 - Margaret Gatty, children's author (b. 1809)
