- 1864 in literature
The year 1864 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
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Ambrose Bierce is wounded at theBattle 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 theRoyal Geographical Society betweenRichard Francis Burton andJohn 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
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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
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Thomas William Robertson - "David Garrick"Poetry
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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
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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 theNobel Peace Prize (d.1921 )
*December 12 -Paul Elmer More , critic and essayist (d.1937 )Deaths
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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 BeethovenAwards
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