This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1873.
For an overview of world literature see 1873 in literature.
See also: 1872 in Australian literature, 1873 in Australia, 1874 in Australian literature.
James Bonwick
Mike Howe, the Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land
The Tasmanian Lily
Edward Maitland – By and By: an historical romance of the future
Vincent Pyke – The Story of Wild Will Enderby
Anthony Trollope
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil : A Tale of Australian Bush Life
Lady Anna
Marcus Clarke – Holiday Peak and Other Tales
Marcus Clarke – "The Song of Tigilau"
Mary Hannay Foott – "The Aurora Australis"
Adam Lindsay Gordon – "Lay Me Low"
John Dunmore Lang – Poems : Sacred and Secular : Written Chiefly at Sea, within the Last Half-Century
George Gordon McCrae – The Man in the Iron Mask
John Boyle O'Reilly – Songs from the Southern Seas and Other Poems
J. Brunton Stephens
The Black Gin and Other Poems
"A Brisbane Reverie : March, 1873"
The Godolphin Arabian : The Story of a Hhorse
"My Chinee Cook"
"My Other Chinee Cook"
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1873 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
15 August – Erle Cox, novelist and journalist (died 1950)
27 October – Henry Tate, poet (died 1926)
24 November – Dora Wilcox, poet (died 1953)
18 December – Edith Joan Lyttleton, author (died 1945)
Unknown date
Nancy Francis, poet, journalist and short story writer (died 1954)
Gertrude Hart, novelist (died 1965)
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1873 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
