1869 in literature
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The year 1869 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.
Contents
- Events 1
- New books 2
- New drama 3
- Poetry 4
- Non-fiction 5
- Births 6
- Deaths 7
- References 8
Events
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August
- Ambrose Bierce, writing a satirical column for the San Francisco News Letter, begins to produce the cynical definitions which will eventually become The Devil's Dictionary.
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- October 5 - Model, poet and artist Elizabeth Siddal (d. 1862) is exhumed at Highgate Cemetery in London in order to recover the manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems buried with her.
New books
- Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich - The Story of a Bad Boy
- R. M. Ballantyne - Erling the Bold
- Horatio Alger, Jr. - Luck and Pluck
- R. D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot
- Alexandre Dumas, père - The Knight of Sainte-Hermine
- Gustave Flaubert - Sentimental Education
- Émile Gaboriau - Monsieur Lecoq
- Ivan Goncharov - The Precipice
- Edmond and Jules de Goncourt - Madame Gervaisais
- Victor Hugo - L'Homme Qui Rit
- Sheridan Le Fanu - The Wyvern Mystery
- Joaquim Manuel de Macedo - A Luneta Mágica
- Hector Malot - Romain Kalbris
- Charles Reade - Foul Play
- Capt. Hawley Smart - Breezie Langton
- Hesba Stretton - Alone in London
- Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace («Война и миръ», Voyna i mir)
- Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad
- Charlotte M. Yonge - The Chaplet of Pearls
New drama
- Navalram Pandya - Veermati
- Mendele Mocher Sforim - Di Takse ("The Tax"; unperformed)
Poetry
Non-fiction
- Matthew Arnold - Culture and Anarchy
- P. T. Barnum - Struggles and Triumphs
- Warren Felt Evans - The Mental Cure, illustrating the influence of the Mind on the Body
- William Ewart Gladstone - Juventus Mundi: The gods and men of 'the heroic' age
- John Stuart Mill - The Subjection of Women
- Richard Wagner - Das Judenthum in der Musik
- Alexander Wilder - New Platonism and Alchemy
Births
- March 11 – F. G. Loring, English writer and naval officer (died 1951)
- March 14 – Algernon Blackwood, English writer (died 1951)
- July 1 – William Strunk, Jr., American professor of English (died 1946)
- July 8 – William Vaughn Moody, American dramatist and poet (died 1910)
- July 29 – Booth Tarkington, American novelist (died 1946)
- August 10 – Laurence Binyon, English poet and scholar (died 1943)
- October 6 – Bo Bergman, Swedish poet (died 1967)
- November 15 – Charlotte Mew, English poet (committed suicide 1928)
- November 22 – André Gide, French writer (died 1951)
- December 22 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (died 1935)
- December 30 – Stephen Leacock, English-born Canadian humorist (died 1944)
Deaths
- January 20 – Carl Wilhelm Göttling, German classical commentator (born 1793)[2]
- February 28 – Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and politician (born 1790)
- July 19 – Victor Aimé Huber, German travel writer and literary historian (born 1800)
- October 18 – Simon Jenko, Slovene poet (born 1835)
- November 3 – Andreas Kalvos, Greek Romantic poet and dramatist (born 1792)
References
- ^ Trager, James. The New York Chronology: The Ultimate Compendium of Events, People, and Anecdotes from the Dutch to the Present. p. 154.
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