1871 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Non-fiction 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Awards

[edit] Events

[edit] New books

• Louisa May Alcott - Little Men
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Fenton's Quest
• Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Coming Race
• Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass
• George Eliot - Middlemarch
• Henry James - Watch and Ward
• George Meredith - The Adventures of Harry Richmond -
• Johanna Spyri - A Leaf on Vrony's Grave
• Mark Twain
  • Eye Openers
  • Screamers
• Emile Zola - La Fortune des Rougon

[edit] Non-fiction

• Charles Darwin - The Descent of Man

[edit] Births

• March 27 - Heinrich Mann, narrator, dramatist and essayist (+ 1950)
• June 17 - James Weldon Johnson (+ 1938)
• July 10 - Marcel Proust (+ 1922)
• August 27 - Theodore Dreiser (+ 1945)
• September 27 - Grazia Deledda, (Italian) writer - Nobel prize winner, (1926)
• November 1 - Stephen Crane (+ 1900)

[edit] Deaths

• March 17 - Robert Chambers, Scottish writer, publisher

[edit] Awards