1867 in literature

1867 in literature

The year 1867 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

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New books

*Louisa May Alcott - "Little Women"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "Circe"
*Rhoda Broughton
**"Cometh Up as a Flower"
**"Not Wisely, But Too Well"
*Charles Theodore Henri de Coster - "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak"
*Fyodor Dostoevsky - "The Possessed"
*Augusta Evans - "St. Elmo"
*Emile Gaboriau - "The Mystery of Orcival"
*Edmond & Jules de Goncourt - "Manette Salomon"
*Thomas Hardy - "The Poor Man and the Lady" (Hardy's first novel - unpublished)
*William Morris - "The Life and Death of Jason"
*Ippolito Nievo - "The Castle of Fratta"
*Ouida - "Under Two Flags"
*Hesba Stretton - "Jessica's First Prayer"
*Anthony Trollope - "The Last Chronicle of Barsetshire"
*Mark Twain - "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
*Ivan Turgenev - "Smoke"
*Emile Zola - "Thérèse Raquin"

New drama

*Henrik Ibsen - "Peer Gynt"

New poetry

*Henry Timrod - ""

Non-fiction

*Walter Bagehot - "The English Constitution"
*William Thomson - "Treatise on Natural Philosophy"

Births

*January 18 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet (d. 1916)
*February 7 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American novelist (d. 1957)
*February 18 - Hedwig Courths-Mahler, novelist (d. 1950)
*May 27 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
*October 31 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist/novelist.(d. 1911)

Deaths

* May 27 - Thomas Bulfinch, American author
* July 31 - Catharine Maria Sedgwick, American novelist
* August 8 - Sarah Austin, historian
* August 31 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet and writer
* 7 October - Henry Timrod, Confederate poet

Awards

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