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*July – [[George Eliot]]'s historical novel ''[[Romola]]'' begins serialization in ''[[Cornhill Magazine]]'', the first time she has published a full-length book in this format. [[George Murray Smith]] of the publishers [[Smith, Elder & Co.]] has agreed a £7,000 advance for it.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Spittles |first=Brian |title=George Eliot: Godless Woman |location=Basingstoke; London |publisher=Macmillan Press|year=1993 |isbn=0-333-57218-1}}</ref> |
*July – [[George Eliot]]'s historical novel ''[[Romola]]'' begins serialization in ''[[Cornhill Magazine]]'', the first time she has published a full-length book in this format. [[George Murray Smith]] of the publishers [[Smith, Elder & Co.]] has agreed a £7,000 advance for it.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Spittles |first=Brian |title=George Eliot: Godless Woman |location=Basingstoke; London |publisher=Macmillan Press|year=1993 |isbn=0-333-57218-1}}</ref> |
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*[[July 1]] – [[Moscow]]'s first free [[public library]] opens as The Library of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumiantsev Museum, predecessor of the [[Russian State Library]]. |
*[[July 1]] – [[Moscow]]'s first free [[public library]] opens as The Library of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumiantsev Museum, predecessor of the [[Russian State Library]]. |
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*[[July 4]] – Charles Dodgson (better known as by his later pseudonym [[Lewis Carroll]]) extemporises a story for 10-year-old [[Alice Liddell]] and her sisters on a rowing trip on [[The Isis]] from [[Oxford]] to [[Godstow]]. The story becomes a manuscript titled ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|Alice's Adventures Under Ground]]'' and is published in 1865 as ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |first=Richard |last=Cavendish |title=The Alice in Wonderland story first told | |
*[[July 4]] – Charles Dodgson (better known as by his later pseudonym [[Lewis Carroll]]) extemporises a story for 10-year-old [[Alice Liddell]] and her sisters on a rowing trip on [[The Isis]] from [[Oxford]] to [[Godstow]]. The story becomes a manuscript titled ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|Alice's Adventures Under Ground]]'' and is published in 1865 as ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |first=Richard |last=Cavendish |title=The Alice in Wonderland story first told |journal=[[History Today]] |volume=62 |issue=7 |url=http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/alice-wonderland-story-first-told |date=July 2012 |accessdate=2016-05-01}}</ref> |
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[[File:Rossetti-golden head.jpg|thumb|Illustration from the cover of [[Christina Rossetti]]'s ''[[Goblin Market and Other Poems]]'', by her brother [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]]]] |
[[File:Rossetti-golden head.jpg|thumb|Illustration from the cover of [[Christina Rossetti]]'s ''[[Goblin Market and Other Poems]]'', by her brother [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]]]] |
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*[[September 23]] – [[Leo Tolstoy]] marries [[Sophia Tolstaya|Sophia (Sonya) Andreevna Behrs]], 16 years his junior, in Moscow, having given her a diary detailing his previous sexual relations. |
*[[September 23]] – [[Leo Tolstoy]] marries [[Sophia Tolstaya|Sophia (Sonya) Andreevna Behrs]], 16 years his junior, in Moscow, having given her a diary detailing his previous sexual relations. |
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*[[November 26]] – Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|Alice's Adventures Underground]]'' to [[Alice Liddell]].<ref>{{Cite book |first=Mark J. |last=Davies |title=Alice in Waterland: Lewis Carroll and the River Thames in Oxford |location=Oxford |publisher=Signal Books |year=2010 |isbn=978-1904955726}}</ref> |
*[[November 26]] – Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|Alice's Adventures Underground]]'' to [[Alice Liddell]].<ref>{{Cite book |first=Mark J. |last=Davies |title=Alice in Waterland: Lewis Carroll and the River Thames in Oxford |location=Oxford |publisher=Signal Books |year=2010 |isbn=978-1904955726}}</ref> |
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*[[November 29]] – Serialization of ''[[The Notting Hill Mystery]]'' by "Charles Felix" (probably [[Charles Warren Adams]]) commences in ''[[Once A Week (magazine)|Once A Week]]'' (London), with illustrations by [[George du Maurier]]; it is seen as the first full-length [[detective novel]] in English.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Paul |last=Collins |title=Before Hercule or Sherlock, There Was Ralph |work=[[The New York Times Book Review]] |date=2011-01-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first=Julian |last=Symons |authorlink=Julian Symons |title=Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel |location=London |publisher=Faber and Faber |year=1972 |isbn=978-0-571-09465-3 |quote=There is no doubt that the first detective novel, preceding Collins and Gaboriau, was The Notting Hill Mystery. |page=51}}</ref> |
*[[November 29]] – Serialization of ''[[The Notting Hill Mystery]]'' by "Charles Felix" (probably [[Charles Warren Adams]]) commences in ''[[Once A Week (magazine)|Once A Week]]'' (London), with illustrations by [[George du Maurier]]; it is seen as the first full-length [[detective novel]] in English.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Paul |last=Collins |title=Before Hercule or Sherlock, There Was Ralph |work=[[The New York Times Book Review]] |date=2011-01-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first=Julian |last=Symons |authorlink=Julian Symons |title=Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel |location=London |publisher=Faber and Faber |year=1972 |isbn=978-0-571-09465-3 |quote=There is no doubt that the first detective novel, preceding Collins and Gaboriau, was The Notting Hill Mystery. |page=51}}</ref> |
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*December – [[Louisa May Alcott]] becomes a nurse at the Union hospital in [[Georgetown, D.C.]] |
*December – [[Louisa May Alcott]] becomes a nurse at the Union hospital in [[Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)|Georgetown]] |
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*[[December 24]] – [[William Dean Howells]] marries Elinor Mead at the American Embassy in Paris. |
*[[December 24]] – [[William Dean Howells]] marries Elinor Mead at the American Embassy in Paris. |
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*[[George MacDonald]] – ''[[David Elginbrod]]'' |
*[[George MacDonald]] – ''[[David Elginbrod]]'' |
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*[[Watts Phillips]] – ''The Honour of the Family'' |
*[[Watts Phillips]] – ''The Honour of the Family'' |
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*[[Fritz Reuter]] – ''[[From My Farming Days]]'' |
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*[[John Skelton (author)|John Skelton]] – ''Thalatta, or the Great Commoner'' |
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*[[Elizabeth Drew Stoddard|Elizabeth Stoddard]] – ''[[The Morgesons]]'' |
*[[Elizabeth Drew Stoddard|Elizabeth Stoddard]] – ''[[The Morgesons]]'' |
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*[[William Makepeace Thackeray]] – ''[[The Adventures of Philip]]'' |
*[[William Makepeace Thackeray]] – ''[[The Adventures of Philip]]'' |
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*[[John Ruskin]] – ''[[Unto This Last]]'' |
*[[John Ruskin]] – ''[[Unto This Last]]'' |
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*[[Elizabeth Missing Sewell]] – ''Impressions of Rome, Florence, and Turin'' |
*[[Elizabeth Missing Sewell]] – ''Impressions of Rome, Florence, and Turin'' |
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*[[John Skelton (author)|John Skelton]] – ''Nugæ Criticæ'' |
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*[[Samuel Smiles]] – ''Lives of the Engineers'' (5 volumes) |
*[[Samuel Smiles]] – ''Lives of the Engineers'' (5 volumes) |
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*[[Leo Tolstoy]] – "The School at Yasnaya Polyana" |
*[[Leo Tolstoy]] – "The School at Yasnaya Polyana" |
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==Births== |
==Births== |
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*[[January 24]] – [[Edith Wharton]], American novelist (died [[1937 in literature|1937]]) |
*[[January 24]] – [[Edith Wharton]], American novelist (died [[1937 in literature|1937]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of World Biography.|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers|year=1999|page=3953|isbn=9781579580483}}</ref> |
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*[[February 17]] – [[Mori Ōgai]] (森 鷗外), Japanese army surgeon, poet, translator and realist fiction writer (died [[1922 in literature|1922]]) |
*[[February 17]] – [[Mori Ōgai]] (森 鷗外), Japanese army surgeon, poet, translator and realist fiction writer (died [[1922 in literature|1922]]) |
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*[[April 11]] – [[Lurana W. Sheldon]], American author and newspaper editor (died [[1945 in literature|1945]]){{cn|date=October 2022}} |
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*[[May 1]] – [[Marcel Prévost]], French dramatist (died [[1941 in literature|1941]]) |
*[[May 1]] – [[Marcel Prévost]], French dramatist (died [[1941 in literature|1941]]) |
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*[[May 9]] – [[Hugh Stowell Scott]] (Henry Seton Merriman), English novelist (died [[1903 in literature|1903]]) |
*[[May 9]] – [[Hugh Stowell Scott]] (Henry Seton Merriman), English novelist (died [[1903 in literature|1903]]) |
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*[[June 6]] – [[Henry Newbolt]], English poet (died [[1938 in literature|1938]]) |
*[[June 6]] – [[Henry Newbolt]], English poet (died [[1938 in literature|1938]]) |
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*[[June 18]] – [[Carolyn Wells]], American novelist and poet (died [[1942 in literature|1942]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Carolyn Wells {{!}} American writer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolyn-Wells |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=22 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref> |
*[[June 18]] – [[Carolyn Wells]], American novelist and poet (died [[1942 in literature|1942]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Carolyn Wells {{!}} American writer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolyn-Wells |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=22 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref> |
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[July 16] [Ida B. Wells], American journalist and novelist (Died 1931[1931 in literature|1931]) |
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*[[August 1]] – [[Montague Rhodes James]], English scholar and short story writer (died [[1936 in literature|1936]]) |
*[[August 1]] – [[Montague Rhodes James]], English scholar and short story writer (died [[1936 in literature|1936]]) |
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*[[August 2]] – [[Paul Bujor]], Romanian politician, zoologist and short story writer (died [[1952 in literature|1952]]) |
*[[August 2]] – [[Paul Bujor]], Romanian politician, zoologist and short story writer (died [[1952 in literature|1952]]) |
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*[[August 6]] – [[Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson]], English historian (died [[1932 in literature|1932]]) |
*[[August 6]] – [[Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson]], English historian (died [[1932 in literature|1932]])<ref>P. D. Proctor, (1949), pages 225–227 in "The Dictionary of National Biography 1931–1940", edited by L. G. Wickham Legg, London: Oxford University Press, 968 pages (hardcover)</ref> |
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*[[August 21]] – [[Emilio Salgari]], Italian adventure novelist (suicide [[1911 in literature|1911]]) |
*[[August 21]] – [[Emilio Salgari]], Italian adventure novelist (suicide [[1911 in literature|1911]]) |
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*[[August 29]] – [[Maurice Maeterlinck]], Belgian poet and playwright (died [[1949 in literature|1949]]) |
*[[August 29]] – [[Maurice Maeterlinck]], Belgian poet and playwright (died [[1949 in literature|1949]])<ref>Bettina Knapp, ''Maurice Maeterlinck'', Boston: Thackery Publishers, 1975, p. 18.</ref> |
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*[[September 2]] – [[Okakura Kakuzō]] (岡倉 覚三), Japanese writer on the arts (died [[1913 in literature|1913]]) |
*[[September 2]] – [[Okakura Kakuzō]] (岡倉 覚三), Japanese writer on the arts (died [[1913 in literature|1913]]) |
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*[[September 27]] – [[Francis Adams (writer)|Francis Adams]], Anglo-Australian poet, novelist and dramatist (died [[1893 in literature|1893]]) |
*[[September 27]] – [[Francis Adams (writer)|Francis Adams]], Anglo-Australian poet, novelist and dramatist (died [[1893 in literature|1893]]) |
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*[[October 13]] – [[Mary Kingsley]], English travel writer (died [[1900 in literature|1900]]) |
*[[October 13]] – [[Mary Kingsley]], English travel writer (died [[1900 in literature|1900]])<ref>{{cite ODNB|title=Kingsley, Mary Henrietta|id=15620|first=D. J.|last= Birkett|date=3 January 2008}}</ref> |
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*[[November 15]] – [[Gerhart Hauptmann]], German dramatist, novelist and poet, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (died [[1946 in literature|1946]]) |
*[[November 15]] – [[Gerhart Hauptmann]], German dramatist, novelist and poet, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (died [[1946 in literature|1946]]) |
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*[[December 8]] – [[Georges Feydeau]], French farceur (died [[1921 in literature|1921]]) |
*[[December 8]] – [[Georges Feydeau]], French farceur (died [[1921 in literature|1921]]) |
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*[[December 16]] – [[John Fox, Jr.]], American novelist and journalist (died [[1919 in literature|1919]]) |
*[[December 16]] – [[John Fox, Jr.]], American novelist and journalist (died [[1919 in literature|1919]]) |
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*[[December 23]] – [[Henri Pirenne]], Belgian historian (died [[1935 in literature|1935]]) |
*[[December 23]] – [[Henri Pirenne]], Belgian historian (died [[1935 in literature|1935]]) |
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*''date unknown'' — [[Jessie King (writer)|Jessie King]], Scottish essayist, poet, journalist (year of death unknown) |
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==Deaths== |
==Deaths== |
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*[[January 11]] – [[Jean Philibert Damiron]], French philosopher (born [[1794 in literature|1794]]) |
*[[January 11]] – [[Jean Philibert Damiron]], French philosopher (born [[1794 in literature|1794]]) |
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*[[February 24]] – [[Bernhard Severin Ingemann]], Danish novelist and poet (born [[1789 in literature|1789]]) |
*[[February 24]] – [[Bernhard Severin Ingemann]], Danish novelist and poet (born [[1789 in literature|1789]]) |
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*[[April 6]] – [[Fitz James O'Brien]], Irish-American science fiction pioneer (born [[1828 in literature|1828]]) |
*[[April 6]] – [[Fitz James O'Brien]], Irish-American science fiction pioneer (born [[1828 in literature|1828]]) |
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*[[May 6]] – [[Henry David Thoreau]], American philosopher (born [[1817 in literature|1817]]) |
*[[May 6]] – [[Henry David Thoreau]], American philosopher (born [[1817 in literature|1817]]) |
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==Awards== |
==Awards== |
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*[[Gaisford Prize]] – Robert William Raper (Trinity) for comic iambic verse: Shakespeare's ''[[Henry IV, Part II]]'', Act 4, Sc. 3<ref>Raper, Robert W. (1862). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=iAYJAAAAQAAJ |
*[[Gaisford Prize]] – Robert William Raper (Trinity) for comic iambic verse: Shakespeare's ''[[Henry IV, Part II]]'', Act 4, Sc. 3<ref>Raper, Robert W. (1862). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=iAYJAAAAQAAJ Gaisford Prize: Greek Iambics Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, July 2, MDCCCLXII]'' Oxford: T. and G. Shrimpton, online at books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-08-14.</ref> |
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*[[Newdigate Prize]] – Arthur C. Auchmuty, "Julian the Apostate" |
*[[Newdigate Prize]] – Arthur C. Auchmuty, "Julian the Apostate" |
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1862.
Events[edit]
- February – Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons (Отцы и дети – old spelling Отцы и дѣти, Ottsy i dety, literally "Fathers and Children") is published by Russkiy Vestnik in Moscow.
- March 30 or 31 – The first two volumes of Victor Hugo's epic historical novel Les Misérables appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October.
- April 6 – Two months after joining the staff of General William Babcock Hazen, Ambrose Bierce joins in the Battle of Shiloh, later the subject of a memoir.[1] Among those on the opposite side is the future journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who will also record his experiences.[2]
- April 28 – Thomas Hardy becomes an assistant to architect Arthur Blomfield.[3]
- June – Nikolai Chernyshevsky is imprisoned in Saint Petersburg and begins his novel What Is To Be Done?[4]
- June 4 – Henry Morton Stanley, now a "Galvanized Yankee", joins the Union Army; he is discharged 18 days later because of illness.[5]
- July – George Eliot's historical novel Romola begins serialization in Cornhill Magazine, the first time she has published a full-length book in this format. George Murray Smith of the publishers Smith, Elder & Co. has agreed a £7,000 advance for it.[6]
- July 1 – Moscow's first free public library opens as The Library of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumiantsev Museum, predecessor of the Russian State Library.
- July 4 – Charles Dodgson (better known as by his later pseudonym Lewis Carroll) extemporises a story for 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a rowing trip on The Isis from Oxford to Godstow. The story becomes a manuscript titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground and is published in 1865 as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.[7]
- September 23 – Leo Tolstoy marries Sophia (Sonya) Andreevna Behrs, 16 years his junior, in Moscow, having given her a diary detailing his previous sexual relations.
- November 26 – Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell.[8]
- November 29 – Serialization of The Notting Hill Mystery by "Charles Felix" (probably Charles Warren Adams) commences in Once A Week (London), with illustrations by George du Maurier; it is seen as the first full-length detective novel in English.[9][10]
- December – Louisa May Alcott becomes a nurse at the Union hospital in Georgetown
- December 24 – William Dean Howells marries Elinor Mead at the American Embassy in Paris.
Uncertain dates
- James Russell Lowell begins writing for The North American Review.
- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs begins writing about homosexuality under the pseudonym of "Numa Numantius".
New books[edit]
Fiction[edit]
- José de Alencar – Lucíola
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Lady Audley's Secret
- Camilo Castelo Branco – Amor de Perdição
- Wilkie Collins – No Name
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – The House of the Dead (Записки из Мёртвого дома, Zapiski iz Myortvogo doma, book publication)
- George Eliot – Romola (serialization)
- Gustave Flaubert – Salammbo
- Eugène Fromentin – Dominique
- The Goncourt brothers (Edmond and Jules de Goncourt) – Sister Philomene (Sœur Philomène)
- Victor Hugo – Les Misérables
- Henry Kingsley – Ravenshoe
- George MacDonald – David Elginbrod
- Watts Phillips – The Honour of the Family
- Fritz Reuter – From My Farming Days
- John Skelton – Thalatta, or the Great Commoner
- Elizabeth Stoddard – The Morgesons
- William Makepeace Thackeray – The Adventures of Philip
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy – Prince Serebrenni (Князь Серебряный)
- Anthony Trollope – Orley Farm (publication completed)
- Ivan Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
- Mrs. Henry Wood – The Channings
Children and young people[edit]
- Frances Freeling Broderip – Tale of the Toys, Told by Themselves
- Catherine Crowe – The Adventures of a Monkey
- F. W. Farrar – St. Winifred's or The World of School
- Henrietta Keddie (as Sarah Tytler) – Papers for Thoughtful Girls, with illustrative sketches of some girls' lives
- Charlotte Yonge
- Countess Kate
- The Stokesley Secret
Drama[edit]
- Émile Augier – Le Fils de Giboyer
- María Bibiana Benítez – La Cruz del Morro (The Cross of El Morro)
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson – Sigurd Slembe (Sigurd the Bastard, trilogy, published)
- Henrik Ibsen – Love's Comedy (Kjærlighedens Komedie, first published)
- Watts Phillips – His Last Victory
- Edmund Yates – Invitations
Poetry[edit]
- Pavlo Chubynsky – "Shche ne vmerla Ukraina" (Ukraine's glory has not perished, later the text of the Ukrainian national anthem)
- Henrik Ibsen – Terje Vigen
- George Meredith – Modern Love
- Christina Rossetti – Goblin Market and other poems
Non-fiction[edit]
- John Hill Burton – The Book-Hunter
- Thomas De Quincey – Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets
- John William Draper – The History of the Intellectual Development of Europe
- Theodor Fontane – Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg, volume 1, Die Grafschaft Ruppin
- Julia Kavanagh
- English Women of Letters
- French Women of Letters
- George Perkins Marsh – The Origin and History of the English Language
- John Ruskin – Unto This Last
- Elizabeth Missing Sewell – Impressions of Rome, Florence, and Turin
- John Skelton – Nugæ Criticæ
- Samuel Smiles – Lives of the Engineers (5 volumes)
- Leo Tolstoy – "The School at Yasnaya Polyana"
Births[edit]
- January 24 – Edith Wharton, American novelist (died 1937)[11]
- February 17 – Mori Ōgai (森 鷗外), Japanese army surgeon, poet, translator and realist fiction writer (died 1922)
- April 11 – Lurana W. Sheldon, American author and newspaper editor (died 1945)[citation needed]
- May 1 – Marcel Prévost, French dramatist (died 1941)
- May 9 – Hugh Stowell Scott (Henry Seton Merriman), English novelist (died 1903)
- May 15 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist and novelist (died 1931)
- June 6 – Henry Newbolt, English poet (died 1938)
- June 18 – Carolyn Wells, American novelist and poet (died 1942)[12]
[July 16] [Ida B. Wells], American journalist and novelist (Died 1931[1931 in literature|1931])
- August 1 – Montague Rhodes James, English scholar and short story writer (died 1936)
- August 2 – Paul Bujor, Romanian politician, zoologist and short story writer (died 1952)
- August 6 – Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, English historian (died 1932)[13]
- August 21 – Emilio Salgari, Italian adventure novelist (suicide 1911)
- August 29 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright (died 1949)[14]
- September 2 – Okakura Kakuzō (岡倉 覚三), Japanese writer on the arts (died 1913)
- September 27 – Francis Adams, Anglo-Australian poet, novelist and dramatist (died 1893)
- October 13 – Mary Kingsley, English travel writer (died 1900)[15]
- November 15 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, novelist and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1946)
- December 8 – Georges Feydeau, French farceur (died 1921)
- December 16 – John Fox, Jr., American novelist and journalist (died 1919)
- December 23 – Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (died 1935)
- date unknown — Jessie King, Scottish essayist, poet, journalist (year of death unknown)
Deaths[edit]
- January 11 – Jean Philibert Damiron, French philosopher (born 1794)
- February 24 – Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Danish novelist and poet (born 1789)
- February 27 (February 16 O.S.) – Constantin Sion, Moldavian polemicist, genealogist and literary forger (born 1795)
- April 6 – Fitz James O'Brien, Irish-American science fiction pioneer (born 1828)
- May 6 – Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher (born 1817)
- May 25 – Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist (born 1801)
- August 27 – Thomas Jefferson Hogg, English biographer (born 1792)
- November 26 – Julia Pardoe, English novelist and historian (born 1806)
- November 30 – James Sheridan Knowles, Irish dramatist and actor (born 1784)
- December 17 – Katherine Thomson, writing as Grace Wharton, English novelist and historian (born 1797)[16]
Awards[edit]
- Gaisford Prize – Robert William Raper (Trinity) for comic iambic verse: Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II, Act 4, Sc. 3[17]
- Newdigate Prize – Arthur C. Auchmuty, "Julian the Apostate"
References[edit]
- ^ Cozzens, Peter (April 1996). "The Tormenting Flame: What Ambrose Bierce Saw in a Fire-Swept Thicket at Shiloh Haunted Him for the rest of his Life". Civil War Times Illustrated. XXXV (1): 44–54.
- ^ Arnold, James (1998). Shiloh 1862 – the death of innocence. London: Osprey Publishing. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-85532-606-4.
- ^ Pinion, F. B. (1994-06-07). Thomas Hardy: His Life and Friends. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 59–. ISBN 978-1-349-13594-3.
- ^ Simpkin, John (1997–2013). "Nikolai Chernyshevsky". Spartacus Educational. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
- ^ Gallop, Alan (2004). Mr Stanley, I presume – the life and explorations of Henry Morton Stanley. Stroud: Sutton. p. 61. ISBN 978-0750930932.
- ^ Spittles, Brian (1993). George Eliot: Godless Woman. Basingstoke; London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 0-333-57218-1.
- ^ Cavendish, Richard (July 2012). "The Alice in Wonderland story first told". History Today. 62 (7). Retrieved 2016-05-01.
- ^ Davies, Mark J. (2010). Alice in Waterland: Lewis Carroll and the River Thames in Oxford. Oxford: Signal Books. ISBN 978-1904955726.
- ^ Collins, Paul (2011-01-07). "Before Hercule or Sherlock, There Was Ralph". The New York Times Book Review.
- ^ Symons, Julian (1972). Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel. London: Faber and Faber. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-571-09465-3.
There is no doubt that the first detective novel, preceding Collins and Gaboriau, was The Notting Hill Mystery.
- ^ Dictionary of World Biography. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. 1999. p. 3953. ISBN 9781579580483.
- ^ "Carolyn Wells | American writer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
- ^ P. D. Proctor, (1949), pages 225–227 in "The Dictionary of National Biography 1931–1940", edited by L. G. Wickham Legg, London: Oxford University Press, 968 pages (hardcover)
- ^ Bettina Knapp, Maurice Maeterlinck, Boston: Thackery Publishers, 1975, p. 18.
- ^ Birkett, D. J. (3 January 2008). "Kingsley, Mary Henrietta". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15620. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1863. p. 694.
- ^ Raper, Robert W. (1862). Gaisford Prize: Greek Iambics Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, July 2, MDCCCLXII Oxford: T. and G. Shrimpton, online at books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-08-14.