1875 in literature

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The year 1875 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

Events

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  Edgar Allan Poe's reburial and new monument, Oct. 1, 1875.
• American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground on October 1, 1875 with a larger memorial marker. Some controversy arose years later regarding if the correct body was exhumed.
• Flammarion publishing house founded in Paris, France.

New books

• William Harrison Ainsworth - The Goldsmith's Wife
• Louisa May Alcott - Eight Cousins
• Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Alice Lorraine
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Hostages to Fortune
• Wilkie Collins - The Law and the Lady
• Alphonse Daudet - Contes du Lundi
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - A Raw Youth
• Benito Pérez Galdós - Saragossa
• Francis Galton - History of Twins
• William Dean Howells - A Foregone Conclusion
• Julia Kavanagh - John Dorrien
• José Maria de Eça de Queiroz - O Crime do Padre Amaro
• Anthony Trollope - The Way We Live Now
• Jules Verne - The Survivors of the Chancellor
• Edmund Yates - Two, by Tricks
• Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Brother's Wife
• Emile Zola - La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret

New drama

• Henry James Byron - Our Boys

Poetry

• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Sonnets and Songs of Proteus
• Alice Meynell - Preludes

Non-fiction

• Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, volume 1
• Lysander Spooner - Vices Are Not Crimes, A Vindication of Moral Liberty

Births

• April 9 – Jacques Futrelle, American author, RMS Titanic victim (d. 1912)
• September 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs (+ 1950)
• August 26 - John Buchan (+ 1940)

Deaths

• August 4 - Hans Christian Andersen

Awards

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