1873 in literature

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The year 1873 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[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

• Henrik Ibsen - Emperor and Galilean

[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

[edit] Awards