1869 in literature
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See also: 1868 in literature, other events of 1869, 1870 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
[edit] New books
- Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives
- R M Ballantyne -Erling the Bold
- Horatio Alger, Jr. - Luck and Pluck
- R. D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone
- Alexandre Dumas, père - The Knight of Sainte-Hermine
- Gustave Flaubert - Sentimental Education
- Emile Gaboriau - Monsieur Lecocq
- Ivan Goncharov - The Precipice
- Edmond de Goncourt & 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
- Hesba Stretton - Alone in London
- Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
- Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad
- Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Chaplet of Pearls
[edit] Poetry
- Henry Kendall -Leaves from Australian Forests
[edit] Non-fiction
- Matthew Arnold - Culture and Anarchy
- P. T. Barnum - Struggles and Triumphs
- John Stuart Mill - The Subjection of Women
- Richard Wagner - Das Judenthum in der Musik
[edit] Births
- March 14 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (+ 1951)
- July 29 - Booth Tarkington (+ 1946)
- August 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar (+ 1943)
- November 22 - André Gide, author (+ 1951)
- December 30 - Stephen Leacock (+ 1944)
[edit] Deaths
- January 20 - Carl Wilhelm Göttling, classical commentator
- February 28 - Alphonse de Lamartine, poet
- July 19 - Victor Aimé Huber, travel writer and literary historian
- October 18 - Simon Jenko, poet
- November 3 - Andreas Kalvos, dramatist
