1871 in literature

List of years in literature (table)
… 1861 ^. 1862 ^. 1863 ^. 1864 ^. 1865 ^. 1866 ^. 1867 … 1868 1869 1870 -1871- 1872 1873 1874 … 1875 ^. 1876 ^. 1877 ^. 1878 ^. 1879 ^. 1880 ^. 1881 … In poetry: 1868 1869 1870 -1871- 1872 1873 1874
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The year 1871 involved saw some significant events relevant to literature.

Contents

1 New books
2 New drama
3 Non-fiction
4 Births
5 Deaths

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
Jules Verne - A Floating City
Émile Zola - La Fortune des Rougon

New drama

W. S. Gilbert - Pygmalion and Galatea

Non-fiction

Charles Darwin - The Descent of Man

Births

March 27 - Heinrich Mann, narrator, dramatist and essayist (d. 1950)
June 17 - James Weldon Johnson (d. 1938)
July 3 - W. H. Davies, poet (d. 1940)
July 10 - Marcel Proust, novelist (d. 1922)
August 27 - Theodore Dreiser, novelist (d. 1945)
September 27 - Grazia Deledda, (Italian) writer - Nobel prize winner (d. 1926)
October 30 - Paul Valéry, French poet (d. 1945)
November 1 - Stephen Crane, novelist (d. 1900)
November 10 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (d. 1947)

Deaths

February 12 - Alice Cary, poet (b. 1820)
March 17 - Robert Chambers, Scottish writer, publisher (b. 1802)
July 31 - Phoebe Cary, poet (b. 1824)