This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1875.
Events
January 16 – Henry James Byron's comedy Our Boys opens at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. It becomes the world's longest-running play until the 1890s, with 1,362 performances up to April 1879.[1] It also opens this year in New York, at the New Fifth Avenue Theatre.
February/March – Arthur Rimbaud meets Paul Verlaine in Stuttgart, Germany, after Verlaine's release from prison, and gives him the manuscript of his poems Illuminations. Rimbaud stops writing literature entirely at the age of 20.
George Smith (Assyriologist) – Assyrian Discoveries: An Account of Explorations and Discoveries on the Site of Nineveh, During 1873 to 1874 (on the discovery of the Epic of Gilgamesh)
^Michael R. Booth, Review of plays by H. J. Byron including Our Boys in Modern Language Review, 82:3, pp. 716–717 (July 1987: Modern Humanities Research Association).