1869 in literature

1869 in literature

The year 1869 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Macmillan Publishing opens first American office in New York City headed by George Edward Brett

New books

*Louisa May Alcott - "Good Wives"
*R M Ballantyne -"Erling the Bold"
*Horatio Alger, Jr. - "Luck and Pluck"
*R. D. Blackmore - "Lorna Doone"
*Alexandre Dumas, père - "The Knight of Sainte-Hermine"
*Gustave Flaubert - "Sentimental Education"
*Emile Gaboriau - "Monsieur Lecocq"
*Ivan Goncharov - "The Precipice"
*Edmond de Goncourt & Jules de Goncourt -"Madame Gervaisais"
*Victor Hugo - "L'Homme Qui Rit"
*Sheridan Le Fanu - "The Wyvern Mystery"
*Joaquim Manuel de Macedo - "A Luneta Mágica"
*Hector Malot - "Romain Kalbris"
*Hesba Stretton - "Alone in London"
*Leo Tolstoy - "War and Peace"
*Mark Twain - "Innocents Abroad"
*Charlotte Mary Yonge - "The Chaplet of Pearls"

Poetry

*Henry Kendall -"Leaves from Australian Forests"

Non-fiction

*Matthew Arnold - "Culture and Anarchy"
*P. T. Barnum - "Struggles and Triumphs"
*John Stuart Mill - "The Subjection of Women"
*Richard Wagner - "Das Judenthum in der Musik"

Births

* March 14 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (+ 1951)
* July 29 - Booth Tarkington (+ 1946)
* August 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar (+ 1943)
* October 6 - Bo Bergman, poet (+ 1967)
* November 22 - André Gide, author (+ 1951)
* December 30 - Stephen Leacock (+ 1944)

Deaths

*January 20 - Carl Wilhelm Göttling, classical commentator
*February 28 - Alphonse de Lamartine, poet
*July 19 - Victor Aimé Huber, travel writer and literary historian
*October 18 - Simon Jenko, poet
*November 3 - Andreas Kalvos, dramatist

Awards

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