1876 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1876.

Events

February 24 – Premiere of first stage production of the verse-play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (published 1867) with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, in Christiania, Norway.
February/March – The Harvard Lampoon humor magazine is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
March 14 – Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma established in Rome.
March – American librarian Melvil Dewey first publishes the Dewey Decimal Classification system.^[1]
April – Émile Zola's L'Assommoir begins serialization in Le Bien public. Its low-life themes cause this to be suspended after 6 episodes and serialization resumes in July in La République des lettres.
July – William Heffer takes over his first bookshop in Cambridge (England), primarily as a stationer at this date.^[2]
Discovery of the first (1594) edition of Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II.^[3]
Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord opened in Paris.

January 7 – Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (born 1807)
January 19 – George Julius Poulett Scrope, English political economist (born 1797)
February 3 – Gino Capponi, Italian historian (born 1792)
February 6 – Georgiana Chatterton, English novelist and travel writer (born 1806)
February 27 – Afanasy Shchapov, Russian historian (born 1830)
March 2 – Johannes Falke, German historian (born 1823)
May 7 – William Buell Sprague, American biographer (born 1795)
May 24 – Henry Kingsley, English novelist (born 1830)
May 26 – František Palacký, Czech historian (born 1798)
June 8 – George Sand, French novelist (born 1804)
June 14 – Catherine Crowe, English novelist and children's writer (born 1803)
June 27 – Harriet Martineau, English philosopher and social theorist (born 1802)
July 14 – James Henry, Irish poet and scholar (born 1798)
July 24 – John William Kaye, English military historian (born 1814)
July 25 – Robert Caesar Childers, French-born English orientalist (born 1838)
October 7 – Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (born 1795)
November 24 – Maria Francesca Rossetti, English critic and translator (born 1827)
December 30 – Christian Winther, Danish lyric poet (born 1796)
Unknown date
- Joshua Hobson, English pamphleteer (born 1810)
- Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai, Tamil scholar and poet (born 1815)

The following novels are set during this year
- Pierre Loti – Aziyadé (1879)
- Gore Vidal – 1876 (1976)
- Boris Akunin – The Winter Queen (Азазель, Azazel', 1998)
- M. K. Hobson – The Native Star (2010)

↑ Dewey, Melvil (1876). A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library. OCLC 78870163. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
↑ Bounford, Julie E. (2016). This Book is About Heffers, The Bookshop That is Known All Over the World. Gottahavebooks. ISBN 9780993378133.
↑ The Atheneum, No. 2562, 2 December 1876.
↑ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
1 2 Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1876". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
↑ "A Chronology of Edward Lear's Life". Edward Lear Home Page. nonsenselit.org. 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2017-02-24.

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