1874 in literature
See also: 1873 in literature, other events of 1874, 1875 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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
Deaths
Awards
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