February – Anthony Trollope's satirical novel The Way We Live Now (set in 1872, written in 1873) begins publication in monthly shilling parts in London, as one of the last major Victorian novels published in that format. It is completed and appears in two volumes in 1875.
November – After completing a four-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds at Waldheim, Saxony, Karl May has his first story, "Die Rose von Ernstthal" ("The Story of Rose Ernstthal"), published.[3]
^Larsen, Jesper Eckhardt "J.N. Madvigs Dannelsestanker. En kritisk humanist i den danske romantik" (2002), Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns Universitet, København.