1866 in literature
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See also: 1865 in literature, other events of 1866, 1867 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
[edit] New books
- R. D. Blackmore - Cradock Nowell
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay -Kapalkundala
- Wilkie Collins - Armadale
- John Esten Cooke - Surry of Eagle's-Nest
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Alexandre Dumas, fils - L'Affaire Clemenceau
- George Eliot - Felix Holt, The Radical
- John William De Forest - Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty
- Emile Gaboriau - The Lerouge Affair
- Victor Hugo - Les Travailleurs de la Mer
- George MacDonald - Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
- Margaret Oliphant - Miss Marjoribanks
- Ouida - Chandos
[edit] Non-fiction
- William Wells Brown - The Negro in the American Rebellion
- Friedrich Albert Lange - Geschichte des Materialismus
[edit] Births
- January 29 - Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author, (+ 1944)
- February 24 - Cyril Arthur Pearson, publisher (+ 1921)
- July 28 - Beatrix Potter, Children's author (+ 1943)
- May 2 - Paul Kretschmer, linguist (+ 1956)
- September 7 - Tristan Bernard, writer (+ 1947)
- August 31 - Elizabeth von Arnim, novelist (+ 1941)
- September 21 - H. G. Wells, science fiction novelist (+ 1946)
- November 21 - Dusé Mohamed Ali, political activist, journalist and dramatist (+ 1945)
- date unknown - Dora Sigerson Shorter, poet (+ 1918)
[edit] Deaths
- January 23 - Thomas Love Peacock, satirist
- February 2 - Francois Xavier Garneau, poet and historian
- March 6 - William Whewell, philosopher and theologian
- March 29 - John Keble, poet
- June 16 - Joseph Méry, satirist and librettist
- August 1 - Luigi Carlo Farini, historian
- August 12 - Philip Stanhope Worsley, poet
- September 10 - Charles Maclaren, first editor of The Scotsman
- September 14 - Léon Gozlan, novelist and dramatist
- September 19 - Christian Hermann Weisse, philosopher
