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==Events==
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*February – [[Ivan Turgenev]]'s novel ''[[Fathers and Sons (novel)|Fathers and Sons]]'' (Отцы и дети (old spelling Отцы и дѣти), {{transl|ru|Ottsy i dety}}, literally "Fathers and Children") is published by ''[[The Russian Messenger|Russkiy Vestnik]]'' in Moscow.
*February – [[Ivan Turgenev]]'s novel ''[[Fathers and Sons (novel)|Fathers and Sons]]'' (Отцы и дети (old spelling Отцы и дѣти), {{transl|ru|Ottsy i dety}}, literally "Fathers and Children") is published by ''[[The Russian Messenger|Russkiy Vestnik]]'' in Moscow.
*March 30 or 31 – The first two volumes of [[Victor Hugo]]'s epic historical novel ''[[Les Misérables]]'' are published in Brussels followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes following on May 15. The first [[English language]] translations are by [[Charles Edwin Wilbour]], published in New York on June 7, and by [[Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall]], published in London in October.
*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]] participates in the [[Battle of Shiloh]], later the subject of a memoir.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Cozzens |first=Peter |date=April 1996 |title=The Tormenting Flame: What Ambrose Bierce Saw in a Fire-Swept Thicket at Shiloh Haunted Him for the rest of his Life |journal=Civil War Times Illustrated |volume=XXXV |issue=1 |pages=44–54}}</ref> Among those on the opposite side is the future journalist and explorer [[Henry Morton Stanley]], who will also record his experiences.<ref>{{cite book |title=Shiloh 1862 – the death of innocence |last=Arnold |first=James |year=1998 |location=London |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=978-1-85532-606-4 |page=32}}</ref>
*[[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.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Cozzens |first=Peter |date=April 1996 |title=The Tormenting Flame: What Ambrose Bierce Saw in a Fire-Swept Thicket at Shiloh Haunted Him for the rest of his Life |journal=Civil War Times Illustrated |volume=XXXV |issue=1 |pages=44–54}}</ref> Among those on the opposite side is the future journalist and explorer [[Henry Morton Stanley]], who will also record his experiences.<ref>{{cite book |title=Shiloh 1862 – the death of innocence |last=Arnold |first=James |year=1998 |location=London |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=978-1-85532-606-4 |page=32}}</ref>
*[[April 28]] - [[Thomas Hardy]] becomes an assistant to architect [[Arthur Blomfield]].<ref>{{cite book |author=F. B. Pinion |title=Thomas Hardy: His Life and Friends |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BBqxCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|date=7 June 1994 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-349-13594-3 |pages=59–}}</ref>
*[[April 28]] - [[Thomas Hardy]] becomes an assistant to architect [[Arthur Blomfield]].<ref>{{cite book |author=F. B. Pinion |title=Thomas Hardy: His Life and Friends |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BBqxCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|date=7 June 1994 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-349-13594-3 |pages=59–}}</ref>
*June – [[Nikolai Chernyshevsky]] is imprisoned in [[Saint Petersburg]] and begins his novel ''What Is To Be Done?''<ref>{{cite web |first=John |last=Simpkin |url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSchernyshevsky.htm |publisher=Spartacus Educational |title=Nikolai Chernyshevsky |date=1997–2013 |accessdate=2014-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106040741/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSchernyshevsky.htm |archive-date=2014-01-06 |dead-url=yes |df= }}</ref>
*June – [[Nikolai Chernyshevsky]] is imprisoned in [[Saint Petersburg]] and begins his novel ''What Is To Be Done?''<ref>{{cite web |first=John |last=Simpkin |url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSchernyshevsky.htm |publisher=Spartacus Educational |title=Nikolai Chernyshevsky |date=1997–2013 |accessdate=2014-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106040741/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSchernyshevsky.htm |archive-date=2014-01-06 |dead-url=yes |df= }}</ref>
*[[June 4]] – Henry Morton Stanley, now a "[[Galvanized Yankee]]", joins the [[Union Army]]; he is discharged 18 days later because of illness.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gallop |first=Alan |year=2004 |title=Mr Stanley, I presume – the life and explorations of Henry Morton Stanley |location=Stroud |publisher=Sutton |isbn=978-0750930932 |page=61}}</ref>
*[[June 4]] – Henry Morton Stanley, now a "[[Galvanized Yankee]]", joins the [[Union Army]]; he is discharged 18 days later because of illness.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gallop |first=Alan |year=2004 |title=Mr Stanley, I presume – the life and explorations of Henry Morton Stanley |location=Stroud |publisher=Sutton |isbn=978-0750930932 |page=61}}</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 Pres s|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>
*[[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]].
*[[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 boat trip on [[The Isis]] from [[Oxford]] to [[Godstow]]. The story becomes the manuscript ''[[Alice's Adventures Underground]]'' and is published in 1865 as ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''.<ref>Richard Cavendish: The Alice in Wonderland story first told. ''History Today'' Vol. 62/7 [http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/alice-wonderland-story-first-told Retrieved 1 May 2016.]</ref>
*[[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 the manuscript ''[[Alice's Adventures Underground]]'' and is published in 1865 as ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''.<ref>Richard Cavendish: The Alice in Wonderland story first told. ''History Today'' Vol. 62/7 [http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/alice-wonderland-story-first-told Retrieved 1 May 2016.]</ref>
[[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]]]]
*[[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.
*[[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>
*[[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 considered 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>
*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, D.C.]]
*[[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.
*''date unknown''
*''Unknown dates''
**[[James Russell Lowell]] begins writing for ''The North American Review''.
**[[James Russell Lowell]] begins writing for ''The North American Review''.
**[[Karl Heinrich Ulrichs]] begins writing about homosexuality under the pseudonym of "Numa Numantius".
**[[Karl Heinrich Ulrichs]] begins writing about homosexuality under the pseudonym of "Numa Numantius".
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===Poetry===
===Poetry===
*[[Pavlo Chubynsky]] – "[[Shche ne vmerla Ukraina]]" ("Ukraine's glory has not perished", later text of the Ukrainian national anthem)
*[[Pavlo Chubynsky]] – "[[Shche ne vmerla Ukraina]]" (Ukraine's glory has not perished, later the text of the Ukrainian national anthem)
*[[Henrik Ibsen]] – ''[[Terje Vigen]]''
*[[Henrik Ibsen]] – ''[[Terje Vigen]]''
*[[George Meredith]] – ''[[Modern Love (poetry collection)|Modern Love]]''
*[[George Meredith]] – ''[[Modern Love (poetry collection)|Modern Love]]''

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1862.

Events

Illustration from the cover of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems, by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Arnold, James (1998). Shiloh 1862 – the death of innocence. London: Osprey Publishing. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-85532-606-4.
  3. ^ F. B. Pinion (7 June 1994). Thomas Hardy: His Life and Friends. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 59–. ISBN 978-1-349-13594-3.
  4. ^ Simpkin, John (1997–2013). "Nikolai Chernyshevsky". Spartacus Educational. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06. Retrieved 2014-03-04. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ Gallop, Alan (2004). Mr Stanley, I presume – the life and explorations of Henry Morton Stanley. Stroud: Sutton. p. 61. ISBN 978-0750930932.
  6. ^ Spittles, Brian (1993). George Eliot: Godless Woman. Basingstoke; London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 0-333-57218-1.
  7. ^ Richard Cavendish: The Alice in Wonderland story first told. History Today Vol. 62/7 Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  8. ^ Davies, Mark J. (2010). Alice in Waterland: Lewis Carroll and the River Thames in Oxford. Oxford: Signal Books. ISBN 978-1904955726.
  9. ^ Collins, Paul (2011-01-07). "Before Hercule or Sherlock, There Was Ralph". The New York Times Book Review.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1863. p. 694.
  12. ^ 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.
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