1863 in literature

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The year 1863 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.

Events

January 31 - Jules Verne's novel Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (Cinq semaines en ballon) is published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in Paris; it will be the first of Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires.
June 12 - The Arts Club is founded by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Frederic Leighton and others in London's Mayfair as a social meeting place for those involved or interested in the creative arts.
June 13 - Samuel Butler's dystopian article "Darwin among the Machines" is published (as by "Cellarius") in The Press newspaper in Christchurch, New Zealand; it will be incorporated into his novel Erewhon (1872).
December 29 - An estimated 7000 people attend the funeral of William Makepeace Thackeray at Kensington Gardens, and nearly 2000 are at his burial in Kensal Green Cemetery.^[1]
Mendele Mocher Sforim publishes his first Yiddish language story, "Dos Kleine Menshele" ("The Little Man"), in the Odessa weekly Kol Mevasser.
Establishment in Iași of the Romanian Junimea literary society, a group which will exercise a major influence on Romanian culture until the 1910s.
Elvira, or the Love of a Tyrant, a novel by the Neapolitan author Giuseppe Folliero de Luna, becomes the first to be published in the Maltese language, as Elvira Jew Imħabba ta’ Tirann.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Aurora Floyd
- Eleanor's Victory
Nikolai Chernyshevsky - What Is to Be Done? (Что делать?, Shto delat'?)
George Eliot - Romola
"Charles Felix" (probably Charles Warren Adams) - The Notting Hill Mystery (serialization completed and in book form; considered the first full-length detective novel in English)^[2]^[3]
Elizabeth Gaskell - Sylvia's Lovers
Théophile Gautier - Capitan Fracassa
Edward Everett Hale - The Man Without a Country
Mary Jane Holmes - Marian Grey
Julia Kavanagh - Queen Mab
Charles Kingsley - The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (complete in book form)^[4]
Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Churchyard
Mrs Oliphant - Salem Chapel, first of The Chronicles of Carlingford (in book form)
Ouida - Held in Bondage^[5]
Charles Reade - Very Hard Cash
Miguel Riofrío - La Emancipada (the first Ecuadorian novel)
Leo Tolstoy - The Cossacks (Казаки, Kazaki)
John Townsend Trowbridge - Cudjo's Cave
Giovanni Verga - Sulle Lagune ("In the Lagoons")
Jules Verne - Five Weeks in a Balloon
Jean Ingelow - "The Prince's Dream"

Lizzie Doten - Poems from the Inner Life (alleged to have been dictated by the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe)^[6]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Tales of a Wayside Inn, including "Paul Revere's Ride"

February 9 – Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope Hawkins), English novelist and playwright (died 1933)
March 3 – Arthur Machen (Arthur Llewellyn Jones), Welsh novelist and short story writer (died 1947)
March 12 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet (died 1938)
April 9 – Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Irish novelist (died 1951)
April 29 – Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet (died 1933)
August 7 – Gene Stratton Porter, American novelist and naturalist (died 1924)
September 1 – Violet Jacob (Violet Kennedy-Erskine), Scottish historical novelist and poet (died 1946)
September 8 – W. W. Jacobs, English short story writer (died 1943)
September 22 – Ferenc Herczeg (Franz Herzog), Hungarian dramatist (died 1954)
November 1 – Arthur Morrison, English writer (died 1945)
November 18 – Richard Dehmel, German poet (died 1920)
November 21 – Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Q.), English novelist and anthologist (died 1944)
December 16 – George Santayana, American novelist and poet (died 1952)

May 13 – August Hahn, German Protestant theologian (born 1792)
July 3 – William Barksdale, American journalist and Confederate general (killed in action, born 1821^[8]
July 10 – Clement Clarke Moore, American classicist and poet (born 1779)
September 17 – Alfred de Vigny, French poet, dramatist and novelist (born 1797)
September 20 – Jacob Grimm, German philologist and fairy-tale author (born 1785)
October 6 – Frances Trollope, English novelist (born 1779)
October 8 – Richard Whately, English theologian and archbishop (born 1787)
December 13 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and dramatist (born 1813)
December 17 – Émile Saisset, French philosopher (born 1814)
December 24 – William Makepeace Thackeray, Indian-born English novelist and travel writer (stroke, born 1811)

↑ Victorian Web: Grave of William Makepeace Thackeray. Accessed 8 March 2013
↑ Collins, Paul (2011-01-07). "Before Hercule or Sherlock, There Was Ralph". The New York Times Book Review.
↑ Symons, Julian (1972). Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel. London: Faber and Faber. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-571-09465-3. There is no doubt that the first detective novel, preceding Collins and Gaboriau, was The Notting Hill Mystery.
↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 283–284. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
↑ Poems from the Inner Life by Lizzie Doten. Accessed 8 March 2013
↑ 7.0 7.1 Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1863". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
↑ William Barksdale biography, Sons of Confederate Veterans