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Overview of the events of 1874 in literature
Overview of the events of 1874 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1874 .
Events
January –
Thomas Hardy 's
Far From the Madding Crowd , the first novel set specifically in
Thomas Hardy's Wessex , begins publication as an anonymous serial in
The Cornhill Magazine , It appears on November 23 in two volumes from his publisher,
Smith, Elder & Co. of London.
February –
Anthony Trollope 's satirical novel
The Way We Live Now (set in 1872, written in 1873) begins publication in monthly shilling parts in London, as one of the last major Victorian novels published in that format. It is completed and appears in two volumes in 1875.
February 11 –
Alexandre Dumas, fils , is admitted to the
Académie française .
[1]
March –
Arthur Rimbaud moves to London with the French poet
Germain Nouveau .
October – The German literary and political periodical
Deutsche Rundschau is established by
Julius Rodenberg in Berlin.
[2]
November – After completing a four-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds at
Waldheim, Saxony ,
Karl May has his first story, "Die Rose von Ernstthal" ("The Story of Rose Ernstthal"), published.
[3]
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 16 –
Robert W. Service , English-born Canadian poet (died
1958 )
January 17 –
Thornton Burgess , American children's writer (died
1965 )
January 25 –
W. Somerset Maugham , British novelist (died
1965 )
February 1 –
Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Austrian writer (died
1929 )
February 3 –
Gertrude Stein , American-born writer and arts patron (died
1946 )
February 9 –
Amy Lowell , American poet (died
1925 )
February 11 –
Elsa Beskow (Elsa Maartman), Swedish children's book and fairy-tale writer (died
1953 )
February 13 –
Elsa Lindberg , Swedish writer of harem stories (died
1944 )
[7]
February 20 –
Gordon Bottomley , English poet, writer of verse drama (died
1948 )
February 27 –
F. M. Cornford , English
classicist and poet (died
1943 )
March 20 –
Börries von Münchhausen , German poet (died
1945 )
March 26 –
Robert Frost , American poet (died
1963 )
April 28 –
Karl Kraus , Austrian writer and journalist (died
1936 )
May 29 –
G. K. Chesterton , English novelist, writer and poet (died
1936 )
June 20 –
Trumbull Stickney , American poet (died
1904 )
July 29 –
August Stramm , German Expressionist poet and playwright (killed in action
1915 )
August 8 –
Tristan Klingsor (Arthur Justin Léon Leclère), French poet (died
1966 )
August 14 –
Bertha M. Wilson , American playwright, critic, and actress (died
1936 )
October 6 –
Ursula Bethell , English-born New Zealand poet (died
1945 )
November 20 –
Nicolae Constantin Batzaria , Ottoman-born Romanian humorist, novelist, editor, and journalist (died
1952 )
November 30 :
December 12 –
Volter Kilpi , Finnish novelist (died
1939 )
c.
December 13 –
Radu D. Rosetti , Romanian poet and playwright (died
1964 )
December 26 –
J. H. M. Abbott , Australian novelist and poet (died
1953 )
December 31 –
Holbrook Jackson , English journalist, writer, publisher and bibliophile (died
1948 )
Deaths
January 24 –
Adam Black , Scottish publisher (born
1784 )
January 26 –
Giuseppe Rovani , Italian novelist (born
1818 )
[9]
February 8 –
David Strauss , German theologian (born
1808 )
February 9 –
Jules Michelet , French historian (born
1798 )
[10]
February 23 –
Shirley Brooks , English journalist and novelist (born
1816 )
March 3 –
Francis Mason , English-born American grammarian and translator (born
1799 )
March 4 –
Ada Clare , American journalist (born
1834 )
March 24 –
Joseph Tracy , American newspaper editor and historian (born
1793 )
June 19 –
Jules Janin , French critic (born
1804 )
July 7 –
John Heneage Jesse , English historian (born
1815 )
July 8 –
Agnes Strickland , English popular historian and poet (born
1796 )
July 12 –
Fritz Reuter , German novelist (born
1810 )
August 8 –
Augustin Theiner , German theologian and historian (born
1804 )
September 20 –
Victor Séjour , American-born Creole novelist and dramatist writing in French (born
1817 )
October 5 –
Bryan Procter , English poet (born
1787 )
October 24 –
Thomas Miller , English poet (born
1807 )
November 20 –
Tom Hood , English humorist (born
1835 )
References