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

Events

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 the manuscript Alice's Adventures Underground and is published in 1865 as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.^[7]

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 (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, D.C.
December 24 – William Dean Howells marries Elinor Mead at the American Embassy in Paris.
Unknown 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

Fiction

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
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

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

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

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

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
Samuel Smiles – Lives of the Engineers (5 volumes)
Leo Tolstoy – "The School at Yasnaya Polyana"

Births

January 24 – Edith Wharton, American novelist (died 1937)
February 17 – Mori Ōgai (森鷗外), Japanese army surgeon, poet, translator and realist fiction writer (died 1922)
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)
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)
August 29 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright (died 1949)
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)
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)

Deaths

January 11 – Jean Philibert Damiron, French philosopher (born 1794)
February 24 – Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Danish novelist and poet (born 1789)
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)^[11]

Awards

Gaisford Prize – Robert William Raper (Trinity) for comic iambic verse: Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II, Act 4, Sc. 3^[12]
Newdigate Prize – Arthur C. Auchmuty, "Julian the Apostate"

References

^ 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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ 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.
^ 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.

[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] Pinion, F. B. (1994-06-07). 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] Cavendish, Richard (July 2012). "The Alice in Wonderland story first told". History Today. 62 (7). Retrieved 2016-05-01.

[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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 *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.<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|first=F. B.|last=Pinion|title=Thomas Hardy: His Life and Friends|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BBqxCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|date=1994-06-07|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 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 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 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>
+*[[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>{{cite journal|first=Richard|last=Cavendish|title=The Alice in Wonderland story first told|work=[[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>
 [[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.