1873 | Literature
Literature
Nonfiction: Studies in the History of the Renaissance by Oxford classicist Walter (Horatio) Pater, 34.
John Stuart Mill dies at Avignon, France, May 8 at age 66, having written, "Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."
Fiction: The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Hartford Courant editor Charles Dudley Warner exposes corruption in U.S. business and politics since the Civil War; Marjorie Daw and Other People by Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Around the World in Eighty Days (Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) by Jules Verne (see Nellie Bly, 1889); Monday Tales (Contes de lundi) by Alphonse Daudet; The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope.
Novelist-playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton dies at Torquay January 18 at age 69; mystery writer Joseph Le Fanu at his native Dublin February 7 at age 58.
Poetry: Les Amours jaunes by French poet Tristan Corbière (Edouard Joachim Corbière), 28; Poems by London poet-physician Robert (Seymour) Bridges, 28; Vignettes in Rhyme by London Board of Trade member-poet Austin Dobson, 33.
Poet-novelist Alessandro Manzoni dies at Milan May 22 at age 88.