1876 in literature

1876 in literature

The year 1876 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

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New books

*William Harrison Ainsworth
**"Chetwynd Calverley"
**"The Leaguer of Lathom"
*Louisa May Alcott - "Rose in Bloom"
*Machado de Assis - "Helena"
*Rhoda Broughton - "Joan"
*Robert Buchanan - "The Shadow of the Sword"
*Wilkie Collins - "The Two Destinies"
*Fyodor Dostoevsky - "A Gentle Creature"
*George Eliot - "Daniel Deronda"
*Thomas Hardy - "The Hand of Ethelberta"
*Joris-Karl Huysmans - "Martha"
*Herman Melville - "Clarel" -
*Mark Twain - "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
*Jules Verne - "Michael Strogoff"
*Charlotte Mary Yonge - "The Three Brides"
*Emile Zola - "Son Excellence Eugène Rougon"

New drama

*Émile Augier - "Madame Caverlet"

Poetry

*Lewis Carroll - "The Hunting of the Snark"

Non-fiction

*Søren Kierkegaard - "Judge for Yourselves!"
*"Robert's Rules of Order"

Births

*January 12 - Jack London (+ 1916)
*February 16 - G. M. Trevelyan, historian (+ 1962)
*March 4 - Léon-Paul Fargue, poet (+ 1947)
*April 13 - Sidney Bradshaw Fay (+ 1967)
*May 10 - Ivan Cankar, dramatist and poet (+ 1918)
*July 12 - Max Jacob, poet (+ 1944)
*September 13 - Sherwood Anderson (+ 1941)
*November 1 - Anne de Noailles, French writer (d. 1933)

Deaths

*January 7 - Juste Olivier, poet
*January 19 - George Julius Poulett Scrope, political economist
*February 3 - Gino Capponi, historian
*February 27 - Afanasy Shchapov, historian
*March 2 - Johannes Falke, historian
*May 7 - William Buell Sprague, biographer
*May 24 - Henry Kingsley, novelist
*May 26 - František Palacký, historian
*June 8 - George Sand, French novelist
*June 27 - Harriet Martineau, philosopher and feminist writer
*July 14 - James Henry, poet
*July 24 - John William Kaye, military historian
*July 25 - Robert Caesar Childers, orientalist
*October 7 - Georg Heinrich Pertz, historian
*October 18 - Francis Preston Blair, journalist
*November 24 - Maria Francesca Rossetti, writer and sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti
*December 30 - Christian Winther, lyric poet
*"date unknown"
**Catherine Crowe, novelist and children's writer
**Joshua Hobson, pamphleteer

Awards

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