1870 in literature

1870 in literature

The year 1870 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Thomas Hardy meets his first wife, Emma.
*Friedrich Engels moves to London.

New books

*Thomas Bailey Aldrich - "The Story of a Bad Boy"
*Thomas Archer - "The Terrible Sights of London"
*Rhoda Broughton - "Red as a rose is she"
*Wilkie Collins - "Man and Wife"
*Charles Dickens - "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (Dickens last and un-finished novel)
*Benjamin Disraeli - "Lothair"
*Fyodor Dostoevsky - "The Eternal Husband"
*Aleksis Kivi - "Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä)"
*William Morris - "The Earthly Paradise"
*Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - "Venus in Furs (Venus im Pelz)"
*Anthony Trollope - "The Vicar of Bullhampton"
*Jules Verne
**"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
**"Around the Moon"
*Charlotte Mary Yonge - "The Caged Lion"

New drama

*James Albery - "Two Roses"
*Pietro Cossa - "Nero"

Poetry

*Lewis Carroll - "The Hunting of the Snark"
*Bret Harte - "The Heathen Chinee"
*Giovanni Marradi - "Canzone moderne"
*Dante Gabriel Rossetti - "The House of Life"

Non-fiction

*"Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" (1st edition)

Births

* March 5 - Frank Norris (d. 1902)
* June 25 - Erskine Childers (d. 1922)
* July 27 - Hilaire Belloc (d. 1953)
* December 18 - Saki (d. 1916)
*"date unknown" - Gerald Duckworth, publisher (died 1937)

Deaths

*February 25 - Henrik Hertz, Danish poet
* June 9 - Charles Dickens, British novelist
* June 11 - William Gilmore Simms, author
* July 20 - Jules de Goncourt, "Prix Goncourt"
* July 24 - Anders Abraham Grafström, Swedish poet and historian
* September 12 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author and explorer
* November 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer
* December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, père, author

Awards

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