1867 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 New poetry 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Awards

[edit] Events

[edit] New books

• The Castle of Fratta - Ippolito Nievo
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - Mark Twain
• Circe - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Cometh Up as a Flower - Rhoda Broughton
• Jessica's First Prayer - Hesba Stretton
• The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak - Charles Theodore Henri de Coster
• The Life and Death of Jason - William Morris
• Manette Salomon - Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
• The Mystery of Orcival - Emile Gaboriau
• Not Wisely, But Too Well - Rhoda Broughton
• Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen
• The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• St. Elmo - Augusta Evans
• Smoke - Ivan Turgenev
• Thérèse Raquin - Emile Zola
• Under Two Flags - Ouida

[edit] New drama

• Henrik Ibsen - Peer Gynt

[edit] New poetry

• Henry Timrod - "Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867"

[edit] 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)

[edit] Deaths

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

[edit] Awards