1876 in literature
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The year 1876 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
[edit] New books
- William Harrison Ainsworth
- Chetwynd Calverley
- The Leaguer of Lathom
- Louisa May Alcott - Rose in Bloom
- Machado de Assis - Helena
- Rhoda Broughton - Joan
- Robert Buchanan - The Shadow of the Sword
- Wilkie Collins - The Two Destinies
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - A Gentle Creature
- George Eliot - Daniel Deronda
- Thomas Hardy - The Hand of Ethelberta
- Joris-Karl Huysmans - Martha
- Herman Melville - Clarel -
- Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Jules Verne - Michael Strogoff
- Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Three Brides
- Emile Zola - Son Excellence Eugène Rougon
[edit] New drama
- Émile Augier - Madame Caverlet
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
[edit] Births
- January 12 - Jack London (+ 1916)
- February 16 - G. M. Trevelyan, historian (+ 1962)
- March 4 - Léon-Paul Fargue, poet (+ 1947)
- April 13 - Sidney Bradshaw Fay (+ 1967)
- May 10 - Ivan Cankar, dramatist and poet (+ 1918)
- July 12 - Max Jacob, poet (+ 1944)
- September 13 - Sherwood Anderson (+ 1941)
- November 1 - Anne de Noailles, French writer (d. 1933)
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 - Juste Olivier, poet
- January 19 - George Julius Poulett Scrope, political economist
- February 3 - Gino Capponi, historian
- February 27 - Afanasy Shchapov, historian
- March 2 - Johannes Falke, historian
- May 24 - Henry Kingsley, novelist
- May 26 - František Palacký, historian
- June 8 - George Sand, French novelist
- [June 27]] - Harriet Martineau, philosopher and feminist writer
- July 14 - James Henry, poet
- July 24 - John William Kaye, military historian
- July 25 - Robert Caesar Childers, orientalist
- October 7 - Georg Heinrich Pertz, historian
- October 18 - Francis Preston Blair, journalist
- November 24 - Maria Francesca Rossetti, writer and sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti
- December 30 - Christian Winther, lyric poet
- date unknown
- Catherine Crowe, novelist and children's writer
- Joshua Hobson, pamphleteer
- William Buell Sprague, biographer
