1875 in literature

The year 1875 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * October 1 - American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground with a larger memorial marker. Some controversy arose years later as to whether the correct body was exhumed.
 * Flammarion publishing house founded in Paris, France.
 * Caroline M. Hewins begins a children's library in Hartford, Connecticut.

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
 * George Meredith - Beauchamp's Career
 * 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

 * Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - En fallit (The Bankrupt)
 * Henri de Bornier - La Fille de Roland
 * Henry James Byron - Our Boys
 * Alfred Tennyson - Queen Mary

Poetry

 * Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Sonnets and Songs of Proteus
 * Alice Meynell - Preludes
 * See also 1875 in poetry

Non-fiction

 * Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, volume 1
 * Swami Dayanand - Satyarth Prakash
 * Lysander Spooner - Vices Are Not Crimes, A Vindication of Moral Liberty

Births

 * February 8 - Valentine O'Hara, Irish author and authority on Russia and the Baltic States (d. 1945)
 * April 1 - Edgar Wallace, English thriller writer (d. 1932)
 * April 9 – Jacques Futrelle, American author, RMS Titanic victim (d. 1912)
 * April 18 - Oskar Ernst Bernhardt (Abdruschin), German author (d. 1941)
 * June 6 - Thomas Mann, German novelist, Nobe Prize laureate (d. 1955)
 * July 26 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
 * August 21 - Winnifred Eaton, Canadian author (d. 1954)
 * September 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, "Tarzan" novelis (d. 1950)
 * August 26 - John Buchan, novelist and diplomat (d. 1940)
 * December 4 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (d. 1926)

Deaths

 * January 23 - Charles Kingsley, English novelist (b. 1819)
 * March 1 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
 * June 2 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
 * June 4 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
 * June 18 - António Feliciano de Castilho, Portuguese poet and author (b. 1800)
 * August 4 - Hans Christian Andersen, author of fairy tales (b. 1805)
 * August 12 - János Kardos, evangelical priest, teacher and writer (b. 1801)
 * October 10 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, novelist and dramatist (b. 1817)
 * October 24 - Jacques Paul Migne, French priest, theologian, and publisher (b. 1800)