1872 in literature

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The year 1872 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Awards

[edit] Events

• Paul Verlaine abandons his family to go to London with Arthur Rimbaud.
• The Federation of Madrid expels all signatories of a subversive article in La Emancipación (including Paul Lafargue).
• George MacDonald goes on a lecture tour of the United States.
• Rose la Touche rejects John Ruskin for the last time.
• Lafcadio Hearn becomes a reporter on the Cincinnati Daily Enquirer.

[edit] New books

• Machado de Assis - Ressurreição
• R. D. 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
• Mór Jókai
  • The Dark Diamonds
  • The Man with the Golden Touch
• 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
• Jules Verne
  • The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa
  • The Fur Country
• Emile Zola - La Curee (1871-72)

[edit] New drama

• Prosper Mérimée - La Chambre bleue (published posthumously}
• August Strindberg - Master Olof

[edit] Non-fiction

• Friedrich Nietzche - The Birth of Tragedy (Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik)
• Henry Wilson - History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, vols. 1 & 2

[edit] Births

• January 31 - Zane Grey, Western novelist (+ 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