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5 unusual facts about 1875 in literature


Beauchamp's Career

Beauchamp's Career (1875) is a novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment.

Die Feuerzangenbowle

The book adopts ideas from Ernst Eckstein’s Der Besuch im Karzer (published 1875) and was partly inspired by personal accounts of Spoerl’s own schooldays as well as his son’s pranks at school.

Kripa Sagar

Born Kripa Das on May 4 1875 in the village of Pipnakha in the outskirts of Gujranwala, now a major town in Pakistan, Kripa Sagar was successively a teacher, an editor, a banker, an officer of the University of the Punjab, and a publisher.

Satyarth Prakash

Satyarth Prakash (English title: The Light of Truth) is a 1875 book written originally in Hindi by Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati, a renowned social reformer and the founder of Arya Samaj.

The Law and the Lady

The Law and the Lady was published in 1875, by Wilkie Collins, although still in print, is largely forgotten now.



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