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Overview of the events of 1875 in literature
Overview of the events of 1875 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1875 .
Events
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.
[1] It also opens this year in
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 . 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 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 .
[2]
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 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 , but is rejected for publication in 1876. It will not appear finally until
1918 .
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 4 –
William Williams (Crwys) , Welsh poet (died
1968 )
February 8 –
Valentine O'Hara , Irish author and authority on Russia and Baltic (died
1945 )
March 30 –
Edmund Clerihew Bentley , English writer (died
1956 )
April 1 –
Edgar Wallace (Richard Horatio Edgar), English thriller writer (died
1932 )
April 9 –
Jacques Futrelle , American author (died in Titanic
1912 )
April 18
June 6 –
Thomas Mann , German novelist and Nobel Prize winner (died
1955 )
June 24 –
Forrest Reid , Irish novelist and literary critic (died
1947 )
July 9 –
W. W. Greg , English literary scholar (died
1959 )
July 19 –
Alice Dunbar Nelson African American poet, journalist and political activist of the
Harlem Renaissance (died
1935 )
July 26 –
Antonio Machado , Spanish poet (died
1939 )
August 2 –
Helena Romer-Ochenkowska , Polish writer, playwright, opinion journalist and theatre critic (died
1947 )
August 21 –
Winnifred Eaton , Canadian author (died
1954 )
August 26 –
John Buchan , Scottish novelist and diplomat (died
1940 )
September 1 –
Edgar Rice Burroughs , American popular novelist (died
1950 )
October 13 –
Armand Praviel , French poet, novelist, and journalist (died
1944 )
October 25 –
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey , American author and educator (died
1961 )
[7]
October –
George Ranetti , Romanian humorist and playwright (died
1928 )
December 4 –
Rainer Maria Rilke , Austrian poet (died
1926 )
unknown date –
Gertrude Minnie Faulding , English children's writer and novelist (died
1961 )
Deaths
January 3 –
Pierre Larousse , French
grammarian and
lexicographer (born
1817 )
January 23 –
Charles Kingsley , English novelist and cleric (born
1819 )
March 1 –
Tristan Corbière , French poet (born
1845 )
March 25 –
Louis Amédée Achard , French novelist (born
1814 )
April 20 –
Emilia Marryat , English children's writer (born c. 1835)
[8]
June 2 –
Józef Kremer , Polish philosopher (born
1806 )
June 4 –
Eduard Mörike , German poet (born
1804 )
June 18 –
António Feliciano de Castilho , Portuguese poet and author (born
1800 )
August 4 –
Hans Christian Andersen , Danish fairy-tale writer (born
1805 )
August 12 –
János Kardos , Slovenian
Evangelical priest, teacher, and writer (born
1801 )
August 19 –
Robert Elis (Cynddelw) , Welsh writer (born
1812 )
October 10 –
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy , Russian poet, novelist and dramatist (born
1817 )
October 24 –
Jacques Paul Migne , French priest, theologian, and publisher (born
1800 )
November 17 –
Hilario Ascasubi , Argentine poet (born
1807 )
References