1865 in literature
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The year 1865 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- June 9 - Charles Dickens is involved in the Staplehurst rail crash.
- November 18 - Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
- Edwin Abbott Abbott becomes headmaster of the City of London School at the age of 26.
[edit] New books
- José de Alencar - Iracema
- R M Ballantyne -The Lighthouse
- Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend
- Edmond de Goncourt - Germinie Lacerteux
- Charles Kingsley - Hereward the Wake
- Sheridan Le Fanu - Guy Deverell
- George MacDonald - Alec Forbes of Howglen
- Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds
- Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon
- Emile Zola - La Confession de Claude
[edit] New drama
- Francis Burnand - Windsor Castle
- Henrik Ibsen - Brand
[edit] Poetry
- Edward Lear - The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple
[edit] Non-fiction
- P. T. Barnum - The Humbugs of the World
- Elizabeth Gaskell - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
- Jacob Grimm - Deutsche Sagen
- Karl Marx - Value, Price and Profit
- John Stuart Mill - Examinations of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy
- James Hutchison Stirling - The Secret of Hegel: Being the Hegelian System in Origin Principle, Form and Matter
- James Hudson Taylor - China's Spiritual Need and Claims
[edit] Births
- February 21 - John Haden Badley, teacher and writer (+ 1967)
- March 15 - Edith Maude Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (+ 1914)
- March 20 - Arthur Bayldon, poet (+ 1958)
- March 29 - Stephen Bonsal, diplomat and writer (+ 1951)
- June 13 - William Butler Yeats (+ 1939)
- June 26 - Bernard Berenson, art historian (+ 1959)
- August 14 - Pietro Gori, poet (+ 1911)
- September 11 - Rainis, poet and dramatist (+ 1929)
- December 30 - Rudyard Kipling (+ 1936)
- date unknown - Enrico Corradini, novelist and journalist (+ 1931)
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland, historian
- January 18 - Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville, diarist
- January 19 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, philosopher
- January 21 - Joseph Xavier Saintine, novelist and dramatist
- February 6 - Isabella Beeton, household management expert
- February 25 - Otto Ludwig, German novelist/playwright
- April 2
- John Cassell, publisher
- Richard Cobden, political writer
- April 15 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America
- May 14 - Pierre François Xavier de Ram, historian
- June 10 - Lydia Sigourney, poet
- September 30 - Dudley Costello, journalist and novelist
- November 12 - Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist
- December 1 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, poet
- December 3 - Joseph Marie Quérard, bibliographer
- date unknown - William Edmonstoune Aytoun, poet and humorist