1872 in literature

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

[edit] Events

[edit] New books

• Richard Doddridge Blackmore - The Maid of Sker
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - To the Bitter End
• Rhoda Broughton
  • Good-bye, Sweetheart!
  • Poor Pretty Bobby
• Samuel Butler - Erewhon
• Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Parisians
• Wilkie Collins - Poor Miss Finch
• Alphonse Daudet - Tartarin de Tarascon
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - Demons
• Alexandre Dumas, père - Création et Rédemption
• Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree
• Elizabeth Anna Hart - The Runaway
• Mór Jókai
  • The Dark Diamonds -
  • The Gold Man
• Sheridan Le Fanu -
  • Carmilla
  • In a Glass Darkly
• Margaret Oliphant - At His Gates
• Bayard Taylor - Beauty and The Beast, and Tales of Home
• Anthony Trollope - The Golden Lion of Granpere
• Emile zola - La Curee (1871-72)

[edit] New drama

• August Strindberg - Master Olof

[edit] Births

• January 31 - Zane Grey (+ 1939)
• May 31 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist/illustrator (+ 1944)
• June 27 - Paul Laurence Dunbar (+ 1906)
• August 24 - Max Beerbohm (+ 1956)

[edit] Deaths

• January 21 - Franz Grillparzer, poet and dramatist
• March 4- Johannes Carsten Hauch, poet
• March 10 - Giuseppe Mazzini, philosopher
• April 1 - Frederick Maurice, theologian
• April 20 - Ljudevit Gaj, linguist and journalist
• May 13 - Moritz Hartmann, poet
• June 1 - Charles Lever, novelist
• August 8 - Heinrich Abeken, theologian
• October 21 - Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, historian
• November 16 - William Gilham, military writer
• December 23 - Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist

[edit] Awards