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In 1873 Leo Tolstoy begins his novel Anna Karenina , which is serialized in Russkiy Vestnik (Moscow) between 1873 and 1877. This portrait was created in 1873 by Ivan Kramskoi.
January 1 – In the United States, Chicago Public Library opens in an old water tank in the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.[1]
March 3
March 10 – The first Azerbaijani play The Adventure of a Miser (The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran) by Mirza Fatali Akhundov is performed by Hasan bey Zardabi and dramatist Najaf bey Vazirov .
March 18 – Leo Tolstoy begins his novel Anna Karenina , which is serialized in Russkiy Vestnik (Moscow ) between 1873 and 1877.[2]
June 16 – Karl Marx inscribes a copy of his treatise Das Kapital to Charles Darwin "on the part of his sincere admirer" but Darwin never finishes reading it.[3]
July – Thomas Hardy 's novel A Pair of Blue Eyes completes its serialization in Tinsley's Magazine (begun September 1872 ) and appears in book format in London . Although this is Hardy's third novel, it is the first to bear his name on publication in the U.S.
July 10 – Paul Verlaine shoots and wounds Arthur Rimbaud in Brussels .[4]
November – The children's periodical St. Nicholas Magazine begins publication by Scribner and Company in New York under the editorship of Mary Mapes Dodge .
December 18 – Louisa May Alcott 's family satire "Transcendental Wild Oats " is published in the newspaper The Independent .[5]
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Serialisation of the novel Night and Morning (original author not acknowledged, but in fact by Edward Bulwer-Lytton , 1841) as Xinxi xiantan by "Lishao Jushi" (probably Jiang Qizhang) begins in the Shanghai monthly Yinghuan Suoji , the first secular fiction translated from English into Chinese .[6]
Charles M. Barnes opens his book printing business in Wheaton, Illinois , United States; it is a forerunner of publisher Barnes & Noble .[7]
In Berlin , the Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu is known to be working on the verse fairy tale "Girl in the Garden of Gold" (Fata-n grădina de aur ). He will revisit the text regularly during the next decade, eventually producing his masterpiece Luceafărul (published April 1883 ).[8]
Bertha Kinsky becomes governess to the Suttner family.[9]
January 1 – Mariano Azuela , Mexican writer (died 1952 )
January 7 – Charles Péguy , French poet and essayist (killed in action 1914 )[15]
January 9 – Hayim Nahman Bialik , Russian-born Hebrew-language poet (died 1934 )
January 20 – Johannes V. Jensen , Danish writer and Nobel Prize winner (died 1950 )[16]
January 28 – Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette), French novelist (died 1954 )[17]
February 22 – Carrie Langston Hughes , African-American writer and actress (died 1938 )
February 23 (O. S. February 10) – Haralamb Lecca , Romanian dramatist, poet and translator (died 1920 )
March 10 – Jakob Wassermann , German novelist (died 1934 )
March 20 – Constantin Banu , Romanian politician, journalist, cultural promoter and aphorist (died 1940 )
Before March 29 (date of baptism) – Peig Sayers (Máiréad Sayers), Irish seanchaí (traditional storyteller) (died 1958 )
April 22 – Ellen Glasgow , American novelist (died 1945 )[18]
April 25 – Howard R. Garis , American children's fiction writer (died 1962 )
May 17 – Henri Barbusse , French novelist (died 1935 )[19]
June 8 – José Martínez Ruiz (Azorín), Spanish novelist (died 1967 )
June 16 – Lady Ottoline Morrell (Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck), English patron of the arts (died 1938 )
July 22 – James Cousins , Irish writer (died 1956 )
August 13 – Dora Adele Shoemaker , American poet and playwright (died 1962 )[20]
September 8 – Alfred Jarry , French dramatist (died 1907 )[21]
October 1 – Ludovic Dauș , Romanian novelist and dramatist (died 1954 )
October 10 – George Cabot Lodge , American poet (died 1909 )
November 13 – Oliver Onions (George Oliver), English novelist and ghost story writer (died 1961 )[22]
December 3 – Ilie Bărbulescu , Romanian linguist and journalist (died 1945 )
December 7 – Willa Cather , American novelist (died 1947 )[23]
December 17 – Ford Madox Ford , English novelist (died 1939 )[24]
December 29 – Ovid Densusianu , Romanian poet, philologist and journalist (died 1938 )
January 9 – Sigurd Abel , German historian (born 1837 )
January 10 – Francesco Dall'Ongaro , Italian poet and dramatist (born 1808 )
January 16 – Ulrika von Strussenfelt , Swedish novelist (born 1801 )
January 18 – Edward Bulwer-Lytton , English novelist and playwright (born 1803 )
February 1 – Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda , Cuban-born novelist (born 1814 )
February 7 – Sheridan Le Fanu , Irish writer (born 1814 )[25]
February 24 – Spiridon Trikoupis , Greek author and orator (born 1788 )
May 8 – John Stuart Mill , English philosopher (born 1806 )[26]
May 22 – Alessandro Manzoni , Italian poet and novelist (born 1785 )[27]
May 27 – Pierre-Antoine Lebrun , French poet (born 1785 )
July 13 – Caroline Clive , English poet and author (born 1801 )[28]
August 15 – Edward Meredith Cope , English classicist (born 1818 )
September 25 – Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi , Italian novelist (born 1804 )
September 26 – Julius Roerich Benedix , German dramatist (born 1811 )
September 28 – Émile Gaboriau , French crime novelist (born 1832 )[29]
October 4 – Margaret Gatty , English children's author (born 1809 )
November 6 – Manuel Bretón de los Herreros , Spanish playwright (born 1796 )
Unknown date – Harriet Ward , English non-fiction and fiction writer (born 1808 )[30]
Gwladys Spencer (1943). The Chicago Public Library: Origins and Backgrounds . University of Chicago Press. p. 351.
Sutherland, John ; Fender, Stephen (2011). "10 July: Poet shoots poet". Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature . London: Icon. pp. 257–8. ISBN 978-184831-247-0 . .
The Independent , Vol. 25 No. 1307, 18 December 1873, pp. 1569–1571.
Perpessicius (2001). Studii eminesciene . Bucharest: Museum of Romanian Literature. pp. 104, 200, 207–210, 217–219, 232–233, 241–242, 246, 262, 265, 273, 276–278, 297, 353, 382–383, 388. ISBN 973-8031-34-6 .
Harris, Susan (1990). 19th-century American women's novels : interpretative strategies . Cambridge England New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 174. ISBN 9780521382885 .
Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems . Sahitya Akademi. 1992. p. 78.
Crowther, Andrew (2000). Contradiction Contradicted – The Plays of W. S. Gilbert . Associated University Presses. p. 211. ISBN 0-8386-3839-2 .
Kelley, Philip (1984). The Browning collections : a reconstruction with other memorabilia.. . Waco, TX: Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University. p. 114. ISBN 9780911459050 .
Hervouet, Yves (1990). The French face of Joseph Conrad . Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 247. ISBN 9780521384643 .
Kurian, George (2010). The encyclopedia of Christian literature . Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press. p. 516. ISBN 9780810872837 .
Rossel, Sven (1984). Johannes V. Jensen . Boston: Twayne Publishers. p. 1. ISBN 9780805765656 .
Cummins, Laurel (2005). Colette and the conquest of self . Birmingham, Ala: Summa. p. 20. ISBN 9781883479466 .
Parini, Jay (2004). The Oxford encyclopedia of American literature . New York: Oxford University Press. p. 118. ISBN 9780195156539 .
Wharton, Edith (2000). Yrs. ever affly : the correspondence of Edith Wharton and Louis Bromfield . East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. p. 111. ISBN 9780870135163 .
Ben Fisher (2000). The Pataphysician's Library: An Exploration of Alfred Jarry's 'Livres Pairs' . Liverpool University Press. p. 4. ISBN 9781781388013 .
Parini, Jay (2004). The Oxford encyclopedia of American literature . New York: Oxford University Press. p. 240. ISBN 9780195156539 .
Henderson, Lesley (1990). Twentieth-Century romance and historical writers . Chicago: St. James Press. p. 243. ISBN 9780912289977 .
Melada, Ivan (1987). Sheridan Le Fanu . Boston: Twayne Publishers. p. 12. ISBN 9780805769371 .
Bruce Mazlish (1988). James and John Stuart Mill: Father and Son in the Nineteenth Century . Transaction Books. p. 111.
Manzoni, Alessandro (2004). Alessandro Manzoni's The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchis . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 5. ISBN 9780801878817 .
P. D. Edwards, "Clive , Caroline (1801–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004 retrieved 20 Feb 2008
Magill, Frank (1997). Cyclopedia of world authors . Pasadena, Calif: Salem Press. p. 738. ISBN 9780893564360 .