1866 in literature

1866 in literature

The year 1866 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Ludwig Anzengruber returns to Vienna after working as a travelling actor.
*Luigi Capuana becomes theatre critic for Italian newspaper "The Nation".

New books

*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

*Dion Boucicault - "Rip van Winkle or The Sleep of Twenty Years"
*Alexandre Dumas, fils - "Heloise Paranquet"

Poetry

*Algernon Swinburne - "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
*Paul Verlaine - "Poèmes saturniens"

Non-fiction

*William Wells Brown - "The Negro in the American Rebellion"
*Friedrich Albert Lange - "Geschichte des Materialismus"
*Charles Haddon Spurgeon - "The Wordless Book"

Births

* 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

*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, philosopher

Awards

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