- 1866 in literature
The year 1866 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
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Ludwig Anzengruber returns to Vienna after working as a travelling actor.
*Luigi Capuana becomes theatre critic for Italian newspaper "The Nation".New books
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R. D. Blackmore - "Cradock Nowell "
*Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay -"Kapalkundala "
*Wilkie Collins - "Armadale"
*John Esten Cooke - "Surry of Eagle's-Nest "
*Alphonse Daudet - "Lettres de mon moulin "
*Fyodor Dostoevsky
**"Crime and Punishment "
**"The Gambler"
*Alexandre Dumas, fils - "L'Affaire Clemenceau "
*George Eliot - "Felix Holt, the Radical "
*John William De Forest - "Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty "
*Emile Gaboriau - "The Lerouge Affair "
*Victor Hugo - "Les Travailleurs de la Mer" ("The Toilers of the Sea")
*George MacDonald - "Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood "
*Margaret Oliphant - "Miss Marjoribanks "
*Ouida - "Chandos "
*Anthony Trollope - "Nina Balatka " (published anonymously initially - Trollope was interested in discovering whether his books sold on their own merits or as a consequence of the author's name and reputation)
*José Milla y Vidaurre - "La Hija del Adelantado"New drama
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Dion Boucicault - "Rip van Winkle or The Sleep of Twenty Years"
*Alexandre Dumas, fils - "Heloise Paranquet"Poetry
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Algernon Swinburne - "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs) "
*Paul Verlaine - "Poèmes saturniens "Non-fiction
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William Wells Brown - "The Negro in the American Rebellion "
*Friedrich Albert Lange - "Geschichte des Materialismus "
*Charles Haddon Spurgeon - "The Wordless Book "Births
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January 29 -Romain Rolland ,Nobel Prize winning author, (+1944 )
*February 24 -Cyril Arthur Pearson , publisher (+ 1921)
*July 28 -Beatrix Potter , Children's author (+1943 )
*May 2 -Paul Kretschmer , linguist (+ 1956)
*September 7 -Tristan Bernard , writer (+1947 )
*August 31 -Elizabeth von Arnim , novelist (+ 1941)
*September 21 -H. G. Wells ,science fiction novelist (+1946 )
*November 21 -Dusé Mohamed Ali , political activist, journalist and dramatist (+ 1945)
*"date unknown" -Dora Sigerson Shorter , poet (+ 1918)Deaths
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January 23 -Thomas Love Peacock , satirist
*February 2 -Francois Xavier Garneau , poet and historian
*March 6 -William Whewell , philosopher and theologian
*March 29 -John Keble , poet
*June 16 -Joseph Méry , satirist and librettist
*August 1 -Luigi Carlo Farini , historian
*August 12 -Philip Stanhope Worsley , poet
*September 10 -Charles Maclaren , first editor of "The Scotsman "
*September 14 -Léon Gozlan , novelist and dramatist
*September 19 -Christian Hermann Weisse , philosopherAwards
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