1864 in literature

1864 in literature

The year 1864 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Ambrose Bierce is wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
*Charles Baudelaire leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties.
*Henrik Ibsen leaves Norway for Italy in a self-imposed exile that will last for 27 years.
*A debate at the Royal Geographical Society between Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke fails to take place, owing to Speke's suicide (or accidental shooting).
*Alexandre Dumas, fils marries Nadejda Naryschkine. His father, Alexandre Dumas, père, returns to Paris from Italy.
*John Addington Symonds the younger marries Janet Catherine North.
*James Payn publishes his most popular story, "Lost Sir Massingberd", in "Chambers's Journal".

New books

*José de Alencar - "Diva"
*Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly -"Chevalier Destouches"
*R. D. Blackmore - "Clara Vaughan"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - ""
*Fyodor Dostoevsky - "Notes from Underground"
*George Eliot - "Brother Jacob"
*Elizabeth Gaskell - "Wives and Daughters"
*Edmond de Goncourt & Jules de Goncourt -"Renée Mauperin"
*Sheridan Le Fanu
**"Uncle Silas"
**"The Wylder's Hand"
*George MacDonald - "The Light Princess"
*Anthony Trollope - "The Small House at Allington"
*Jules Verne - "Journey to the Center of the Earth"

New drama

*Thomas William Robertson - "David Garrick"

Poetry

*Robert Browning - "Dramatis Personae"
*Alfred Tennyson - "Enoch Arden"
*Alfred de Vigny - "Les Destinées" (posthumously published)

Non-fiction

*American Dictionary of the English Language (Webster's), revised edition
*George Perkins Marsh - "Man and Nature"
*"Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave from Kentucky"
*John Henry Cardinal Newman - "Apologia Pro Vita Sua"
*John Ruskin - "Cestus of Aglaia"

Births

*January 24 - Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and feminist leader (d. 1936)
*February 14 - Israel Zangwill, novelist and playwright, (d. 1926)
*April 21 - Max Weber, sociologist
*July 20 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
*October 14 - Stefan Żeromski, novelist, poet and dramatist
*November 11 - Alfred Hermann Fried, pacifist writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1921)
*December 12 - Paul Elmer More, critic and essayist (d. 1937)

Deaths

*January 29 - Lucy Aikin, historian
*February 2 - Adelaide Anne Procter, poet
*March 16 - Robert Smith Surtees, novelist and sports writer
*May 19 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist
*May 20 - John Clare, poet
*May 26 - Charles Sealsfield, novelist
*July 4 - Thomas Colley Grattan, novelist
*August 7 - Janez Puhar, poet
*September - Antônio Gonçalves Dias, poet (lost at sea)
*September 17 - Walter Savage Landor, poet
*"date unknown" - Anton Felix Schindler, biographer of Beethoven

Awards

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