1873 in literature
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See also: 1872 in literature, other events of 1873, 1874 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- March 3 - 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.
[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
- Nancy
- Tales for Christmas Eve
- Bankim Chatterjee - The Poison Tree
- Wilkie Collins
- Miss or Mrs.?
- The New Magdalen*Edwin W. Fuller - Sea-gift
- Emile 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
- Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days
[edit] New drama
[edit] Poetry
- Paul Bourget - Au bord de la mer
- 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
- Charlotte Mary Yonge - Life of John Coleridge Patteson
[edit] Births
- January 20 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel prize winner († 1950)
- January 28 - Colette, writer († 1954)
- April 22 - Ellen Glasgow († 1945)
- May 17 - Henri Barbusse († 1935)
- June 16 - Lady Ottoline Morrell, patron of authors and artists († 1938)
- September 8 - Alfred Jarry, dramatist († 1907)
- December 7 - Willa Cather († 1947)
- December 17 - Ford Madox Ford († 1939)
[edit] Deaths
- January 9 - Sigurd Abel, historian
- January 10 - Francesco Dall'Ongaro, poet and dramatist
- January 18 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author
- February 1 - Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, novelist
- February 7 - Sheridan Le Fanu, writer
- February 24 - Spiridon Trikoupis, author and orator
- May 8 - John Stuart Mill, philosopher
- May 22 - Alessandro Manzoni, poet and novelist
- May 27 - Pierre-Antoine Lebrun, poet
- August 15 - Edward Meredith Cope, classical scholar
- September 25 - Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi, novelist
- September 26 - Julius Roerich Benedix, dramatist
- September 28 - Emile Gaboriau, novelist
- October 4 - Margaret Gatty, children's author
