1875 in literature

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