1872 in literature

1872 in literature

The year 1872 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Paul Verlaine abandons his family to go to London with Arthur Rimbaud.
*The Federation of Madrid expels all signatories of a subversive article in "La Emancipación" (including Paul Lafargue).
*George MacDonald goes on a lecture tour of the United States.
*Rose la Touche rejects John Ruskin for the last time.
*Lafcadio Hearn becomes a reporter on the "Cincinnati Daily Enquirer".

New books

*Machado de Assis - "Ressurreição"
*R. D. Blackmore - "The Maid of Sker"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "To the Bitter End"
*Rhoda Broughton
**"Good-bye, Sweetheart!"
**"Poor Pretty Bobby"
*Samuel Butler -"Erewhon"
*Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - "The Parisians"
*Wilkie Collins - "Poor Miss Finch"
*Alphonse Daudet - "Tartarin de Tarascon"
*Fyodor Dostoevsky - "Demons"
*Alexandre Dumas, père - "Création et Rédemption"
*Thomas Hardy - "Under the Greenwood Tree"
*Mór Jókai
**"The Dark Diamonds"
**"The Man with the Golden Touch"
*Sheridan Le Fanu -
**"Carmilla"
**"In a Glass Darkly"
*Margaret Oliphant - "At His Gates"
*Bayard Taylor - "Beauty and The Beast, and Tales of Home"
*Anthony Trollope - "The Golden Lion of Granpere"
*Jules Verne
**"The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa"
**"The Fur Country"
*Emile Zola - "La Curee (1871-72)"

New drama

*Prosper Mérimée - "La Chambre bleue" (published posthumously}
*August Strindberg - "Master Olof"

Non-fiction

*Friedrich Nietzche - "The Birth of Tragedy (Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik)"
*Henry Wilson - "History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America", vols. 1 & 2

Births

* January 31 - Zane Grey, Western novelist (+ 1939)
* May 31 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist/illustrator (+ 1944)
* June 27 - Paul Laurence Dunbar (+ 1906)
* August 24 - Max Beerbohm (+ 1956)

Deaths

*January 21 - Franz Grillparzer, poet and dramatist
*March 4- Johannes Carsten Hauch, poet
*March 10 - Giuseppe Mazzini, philosopher
*April 1 - Frederick Maurice, theologian
*April 20 - Ljudevit Gaj, linguist and journalist
*May 13 - Moritz Hartmann, poet
*June 1 - Charles Lever, novelist
*August 8 - Heinrich Abeken, theologian
*October 21 - Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, historian
*November 16 - William Gilham, military writer
*December 23 - Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist

Awards

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