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1874 in literature

See also: 1873 in literature, other events of 1874, 1875 in literature, list of years in literature. \n

Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards

Events

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New Books

\n*L'Après-midi d'un faune -
Stéphane Mallarmé\n*Beauchamp's Career - George Meredith\n*Cobwebs from an Empty Skull - Ambrose Bierce\n*Les Diaboliques - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly\n*Le drageoir aux epices - Joris-Karl Huysmans\n*The Frozen Deep and Other Stories - Wilkie Collins\n*Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush Life - Anthony Trollope\n*The Impending Sword - Edmund Yates \n*Johnny Ludlow - Mrs. Henry Wood \n*Lady Anna - Anthony Trollope \n*Lost For Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon\n*The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne\n*A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest - Amelia Edwards \n*Other People's Money - Emile Gaboriau \n*The Pirate City - RM Ballantyne\n*Prudence Palfrey - Thomas Bailey Aldrich\n*The Rising Sun - William Wells Brown\n*A Rose in June - Margaret Oliphant\n*The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert \n

Births

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January 16 - Robert W. Service, poet (+ 1958)\n* January 25 - William Somerset Maugham, (+ 1965)\n* February 1 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, writer (+ 1929)\n* February 3 - Gertrude Stein, writer and patron of the arts (+ 1946)\n* February 9 - Amy Lowell, poet (+ 1925)\n* February 11 - Elsa Beskow (Maartman), Swedish children's book/fairy tales author.\n* March 20 - Börries von Münchhausen, poet (+ 1945)\n* March 26 - Robert Frost, poet (+ 1963)\n* May 29 - G. K. Chesterton (+ 1936)\n* November 30 - Lucy Maud Montgomery \n

Deaths

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Awards

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"Don't be so humble - you are not that great." - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat