1874 in literature
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See also: 1873 in literature, other events of 1874, 1875 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- L'Après-midi d'un faune - Stéphane Mallarmé
- Beauchamp's Career - George Meredith
- Cobwebs from an Empty Skull - Ambrose Bierce
- Les Diaboliques - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
- Le drageoir aux epices - Joris-Karl Huysmans
- The Frozen Deep and Other Stories - Wilkie Collins
- Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush Life - Anthony Trollope
- The Impending Sword - Edmund Yates
- Johnny Ludlow - Mrs. Henry Wood
- Lady Anna - Anthony Trollope
- Lost For Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
- A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest - Amelia Edwards
- Other People's Money - Emile Gaboriau
- The Pirate City - RM Ballantyne
- Prudence Palfrey - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- The Rising Sun - William Wells Brown
- A Rose in June - Margaret Oliphant
- The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert
Births
- January 16 - Robert W. Service, poet (+ 1958)
- January 25 - William Somerset Maugham, (+ 1965)
- February 1 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, writer (+ 1929)
- February 3 - Gertrude Stein, writer and patron of the arts (+ 1946)
- February 9 - Amy Lowell, poet (+ 1925)
- February 11 - Elsa Beskow (Maartman), Swedish children's book/fairy tales author.
- March 20 - Börries von Münchhausen, poet (+ 1945)
- March 26 - Robert Frost, poet (+ 1963)
- May 29 - G. K. Chesterton (+ 1936)
- November 30 - Lucy Maud Montgomery