1874 in literature

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The year 1874 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

The German literary and political periodical Deutsche Rundschau is established by Julius Rodenberg in Berlin.
Arthur William à Beckett joins the staff of Punch.
Alexandre Dumas, fils, is elected to the Académie française.
Johan Nicolai Madvig loses his sight, forcing him to give up most of his research and writing.
Karl May completes a 4-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds at Waldheim, Saxony (May) and has his first story, Die Rose von Ernstthal ("The Story of Rose Ernstthal"), published (November).^[1]
Arthur Rimbaud goes to London with Germain Nouveau.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich - Prudence Palfrey
José de Alencar - Ubirajara
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly - Les Diaboliques
R. M. Ballantyne -The Pirate City
Ambrose Bierce - Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
Andrew Blair - Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lost For Love
William Wells Brown - The Rising Sun
Wilkie Collins - The Frozen Deep and Other Stories
Alphonse Daudet - Fromont jeune et Risler aîné
Amelia Edwards - A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest
George Eliot - Middlemarch (first single-volume publication)
Gustave Flaubert - The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Émile Gaboriau - Other People's Money
Henry Glapthorne (d. c.1643) - The Plays and Poems of Henry Glapthorne: Now first collected with illustrative notes and a memoir of the Author
Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd
Marie Howland - Papa's Own Girl
Victor Hugo - Ninety-Three
J.-K. Huysmans - Le drageoir aux epices
George Meredith - Beauchamp's Career
Margaret Oliphant - A Rose in June
Anthony Trollope
- Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush Life
- Lady Anna
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano - Pepita Jiménez
Jules Verne - The Mysterious Island (L'Île mystérieuse)
Mrs. Henry Wood - Johnny Ludlow
Edmund Yates - The Impending Sword
Émile Zola - La Conquête de Plassans

Franz Brentano - Psychologie vom Empirischen Standpunkte ("Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint")
William Cullen Bryant - Picturesque America, vol. 2
John William Draper - A History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
Elise Otté - Scandinavian History
Antonio Raimondi - El Perú
Dorothy Wordsworth - Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803

January 16 – Robert W. Service, English-born Canadian poet (died 1958)
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)
March 20 – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (died 1945)
March 26 – Robert Frost, American poet (died 1963)
May 29 – G. K. Chesterton, English novelist, writer and poet (died 1936)
June 20 – Trumbull Stickney, American poet (died 1904)
August 8 – Tristan Klingsor (Arthur Justin Léon Leclère), French poet (died 1966)
October 6 – Ursula Bethell, English-born New Zealand poet (died 1945)
November 30 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian novelist (died 1942)

January 24 – Adam Black, Scottish publisher (born 1784)
February 8 – David Strauss, German theologian (born 1808)
February 9 – Jules Michelet, French historian (born 1798)
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)
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)
October 5 – Bryan Procter, English poet (born 1787)
October 24 – Thomas Miller, English poet (born 1807)
November 20 – Tom Hood, English humorist (born 1835)
Unknown dates
- Giuseppe Rovani, Italian novelist (born 1818)
- Victor Séjour, American-born novelist and dramatist writing in French (born 1817)
- Joseph Tracy, American newspaper editor and historian (born 1793)