Calendar of Literary Facts
1873
- Arthur Rimbaud publishes Una Saison en enfer (A Season in Hell)
- A financial panic strikes New York and Vienna
- The first color photographs are made
- The economic Panic of 1873 results after the collapse of Jay Cooke’s banking establishment
- Mary Mapes Dodge founds St. Nicholas magazine for children
- Mariano Azuela is born (January 1)
- Alexander Posey is born (August 3)
- Willa Cather is born (December 7)
- Sheridan Le Fanu dies (February 7)
- Alfred Jarry is born (September 8)
- Ford Madox Hueffer (later Ford Madox Ford) is born (December 17)
- Henri Barbusse is born (May 17)
- Ellen Glasgow is born (April 22)
- Walter de la Mare is born (April 25)
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is born (January 28)
- Johannes V. Jensen is born (January 30)
