1864 in literature

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of years in literature (table)
... 1854 ^. 1855 ^. 1856 ^. 1857 ^. 1858 ^. 1859 ^. 1860 ... 1861 1862 1863 -1864- 1865 1866 1867 ... 1868 ^. 1869 ^. 1870 ^. 1871 ^. 1872 ^. 1873 ^. 1874 ... In poetry: 1861 1862 1863 -1864- 1865 1866 1867
Art ^. Archaeology ^. Architecture ^. Literature ^. Music ^. Philosophy ^. Science +...

The year 1864 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

April 10 - Publisher William Ticknor dies of pneumonia in Philadelphia while on a trip with Nathaniel Hawthorne for the sake of the latter's health.
June 27 - Ambrose Bierce is wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
December - Sheridan Le Fanu's Gothic locked room mystery-thriller Uncle Silas concludes serialization in his Dublin University Magazine as "Maud Ruthyn and Uncle Silas" and is published as a three-volume novel by Richard Bentley in London.^[1]
Charles Baudelaire leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties.
Henrik Ibsen leaves Norway for Italy in a self-imposed exile that will last for 27 years.
A debate at the Royal Geographical Society between Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke fails to take place, owing to Speke's suicide (or accidental shooting).
Alexandre Dumas, fils marries Nadejda Naryschkine. His father, Alexandre Dumas, père, returns to Paris from Italy.
John Addington Symonds the younger marries Janet Catherine North.
James Payn publishes his most popular story, Lost Sir Massingberd, in Chambers's Journal.^[2]
Former English chess master Howard Staunton publishes a facsimile of the 1600 quarto text of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, the first use of photolithography for such a book.

January 24 - Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist and feminist leader (died 1936)
February 14 - Israel Zangwill, British novelist and playwright (died 1926)
April 8 - J. Smeaton Chase, English–American author and photographer (died 1923)
April 21 - Max Weber, German sociologist (died 1920)
July 20 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1931)
September 29 - Miguel de Unamuno, Basque Spanish writer (died 1936)
October 14 - Stefan Żeromski, Polish novelist, poet and dramatist (died 1925)
November 11
- Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian Jewish pacifist writer, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1921)
- Maurice Leblanc, French novelist and crime writer (died 1941)
December 12 - Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (died 1937)

January 16 - Anton Felix Schindler, biographer of Beethoven (born 1795)
January 29 - Lucy Aikin, historian (born 1781)
February 2 - Adelaide Anne Procter, poet (born 1825)
March 16 - Robert Smith Surtees, novelist and sporting writer (born 1805)
May 19 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist (born 1804)
May 20 - John Clare, "peasant poet" (born 1793)
May 26 - Charles Sealsfield, novelist (born 1793)
July 4 - Thomas Colley Grattan, novelist (born 1792)
August 7 - Janez Puhar, poet (born 1814)
September 17 - Walter Savage Landor, poet (born 1775)
November 3 - Gonçalves Dias, Romantic poet (born 1823) (shipwreck)
December 6 - Simonas Daukantas, Lithuanian ethnographer and historian (born 1793)

↑ McCormack, W. J. (1997). Sheridan Le Fanu (3rd ed.). Stroud: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-1489-0.
↑ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.