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The year 1875 in literature involved some significant new books.

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Events

Edgar Allan Poe's reburial and new monument, October 1, 1875.

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.

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

January 23 - Charles Kingsley, English novelist (born 1819)
March 1 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (born 1845)
June 2 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic 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, author of fairy tales (born 1805)
August 12 - János Kardos, evangelical priest, teacher and writer (born 1801)
October 10 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, novelist and dramatist (born 1817)
October 24 - Jacques Paul Migne, French priest, theologian, and publisher (born 1800)