1869 in literature
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The year 1869 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.
Events
- August - Macmillan Publishing opens its first American office in New York City, headed by George Edward Brett.[1]
- October 5 - Model, poet and artist Elizabeth Siddal (d. 1862) is exhumed at Highgate Cemetery in London in order to recover the manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems buried with her.
New books
- Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich - The Story of a Bad Boy
- R. M. Ballantyne - Erling the Bold
- Horatio Alger, Jr. - Luck and Pluck
- R. D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone
- Alexandre Dumas, père - The Knight of Sainte-Hermine
- Gustave Flaubert - Sentimental Education
- Émile Gaboriau - Monsieur Lecoq
- Ivan Goncharov - The Precipice
- Edmond and Jules de Goncourt - Madame Gervaisais
- Victor Hugo - L'Homme Qui Rit
- Sheridan Le Fanu - The Wyvern Mystery
- Joaquim Manuel de Macedo - A Luneta Mágica
- Hector Malot - Romain Kalbris
- Charles Reade - Foul Play
- Hesba Stretton - Alone in London
- Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace («Война и миръ», Voyna i mir)
- Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad
- Charlotte M. Yonge - The Chaplet of Pearls
New drama
- Mendele Mocher Sforim - Di Takse ("The Tax"; unperformed)
Poetry
- Henry Kendall - Leaves from Australian Forests
Non-fiction
- Matthew Arnold - Culture and Anarchy
- P. T. Barnum - Struggles and Triumphs
- John Stuart Mill - The Subjection of Women
- Richard Wagner - Das Judenthum in der Musik
Births
- March 14 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (died 1951)
- July 1 - William Strunk, Jr., professor of English (died 1946)
- July 8 - William Vaughn Moody, dramatist and poet (died 1910)
- July 29 - Booth Tarkington, novelist (died 1946)
- August 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar (died 1943)
- October 6 - Bo Bergman, poet (died 1967)
- November 15 - Charlotte Mew, poet (committed suicide 1928)
- November 22 - André Gide, author (died 1951)
- December 22 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet (died 1935)
- December 30 - Stephen Leacock, humourist (died 1944)
Deaths
- January 20 - Carl Wilhelm Göttling, German classical commentator (born 1793)[2]
- February 28 - Alphonse de Lamartine, poet and politician (born 1790)
- July 19 - Victor Aimé Huber, travel writer and literary historian (born 1800)
- October 18 - Simon Jenko, Slovene poet (born 1835)
- November 3 - Andreas Kalvos, Greek Romantic poet and dramatist (born 1792)
References
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