This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1875.
Children and young people
Louisa May Alcott – Eight Cousins
George MacDonald – The Lost Princess (originally The Wise Woman)
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson – En fallit (The Bankrupt)
Henri de Bornier – La Fille de Roland
H. J. Byron – Our Boys
José Echegaray – En el puño de la espada (The Sword's Handle)
Alfred Tennyson – Queen Mary
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt – Sonnets and Songs of Proteus
Alice Meynell – Preludes
See also 1875 in poetry
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, vol. 1
Swami Dayanand – Satyarth Prakash
Edward Dowden – Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art
Mary Baker Eddy – Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Warren Felt Evans – Soul and Body
Francis Galton – "The History of Twins, as a criterion of the relative powers of nature and nurture" (Fraser's Magazine, vol. 12, pp. 566–76)
Baron Jules Dupotet de Sennevoy – La Magie dévoilée
Lysander Spooner – Vices Are Not Crimes, A Vindication of Moral Liberty
John Addington Symonds
The Age of the Despots (first volume of Renaissance in Italy)
Picturesque Europe
January 4 – William Williams (Crwys), Welsh poet (died 1968)
February 8 – Valentine O'Hara, Irish author and authority on Russia and Baltic (died 1945)
March 30 – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English writer (died 1956)
April 1 – Edgar Wallace (Richard Horatio Edgar), English thriller writer (died 1932)
April 9 – Jacques Futrelle, American author (died in Titanic 1912)
April 18
Oskar Ernst Bernhardt (Abdruschin), German author (died 1941)
Katherine Thurston (Katherine Cecil Madden), Irish novelist (died 1911)
June 6 – Thomas Mann, German novelist and Nobel Prize winner (died 1955)
June 24 – Forrest Reid, Irish novelist and literary critic (died 1947)
July 9 – W. W. Greg, English literary scholar (died 1959)
July 26 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (died 1939)
August 21 – Winnifred Eaton, Canadian author (died 1954)
August 26 – John Buchan, Scottish novelist and diplomat (died 1940)
September 1 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American popular novelist (died 1950)
October – George Ranetti, Romanian humorist and playwright (died 1928)
December 4 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (died 1926)
January 3 – Pierre Larousse, French grammarian and lexicographer (born 1817)
January 23 – Charles Kingsley, English novelist and cleric (born 1819)
March 1 – Tristan Corbière, French poet (born 1845)
March 25 – Louis Amédée Achard, novelist (born 1814)
June 2 – Józef Kremer, Polish philosopher (born 1806)
June 4 – Eduard Mörike, German poet (born 1804)
June 18 – António Feliciano de Castilho, Portuguese poet and author (born 1800)
August 4 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy-tale writer (born 1805)
August 12 – János Kardos, Slovenian Evangelical priest, teacher, and writer (born 1801)
August 19 – Robert Elis (Cynddelw), Welsh writer (born 1812)
October 10 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, novelist and dramatist (born 1817)
October 24 – Jacques Paul Migne, French priest, theologian, and publisher (born 1800)
November 17 – Hilario Ascasubi, Argentine poet (born 1807)
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