1863 in literature

1863 in literature

The year 1863 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*First reunions of the Romanian "Junimea" literary society, a group which was to exercise a major influence on Romanian culture until the 1910s.

New books

*Mary Elizabeth Braddon
**"Aurora Floyd"
**"Eleanor's Victory"
*George Eliot - "Romola"
*Elizabeth Gaskell - "Sylvia's Lovers"
*Theophile Gauthier - "Capitan Fracassa"
*Edward Everett Hale - "The Man Without a Country"
*Mary Jane Holmes - "Marian Grey"
*Julia Kavanagh - "Queen Mab"
*Charles Kingsley - "The Water-Babies"
*Sheridan Le Fanu - "The House by the Churchyard"
*Leo Tolstoy - "The Cossacks"
*John Townsend Trowbridge - "Cudjo's Cave"
*Giovanni Verga - "Sulle Lagune (In the Lagoons)"
*Jules Verne - "Five Weeks in a Balloon"

New drama

*W. S. Gilbert - "Uncle Baby"

Poetry

*Lizzie Doten - "Poems from the Inner Life" (alleged to have been dictated by the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe)
*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - "Tales of a Wayside Inn", including "Paul Revere's Ride"

Non-fiction

*William Barnes - "Glossary of Dorset Dialect"
*William Wells Brown - ""
*Francis James Child - "Observations on the Language of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales"
*Charles Lyell - "Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man"
*Ernest Renan - "The Life of Jesus"

Births

*February 9 - Anthony Hope, adventure novelist
*March 3 - Arthur Machen, novelist and short story writer
*March 12 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet
*April 9 - Henry De Vere Stacpoole, novelist
* April 29
**Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet
**William Randolph Hearst, newspaper proprietor
* August 7 - Gene Stratton Porter, American novelist and naturalist
*September 8 - W. W. Jacobs, short story writer
*September 22 - Ferenc Herczeg, dramatist
* November 1 - Arthur Morrison
*November 21 - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, novelist

Deaths

*May 13 - August Hahn, theologian
*July 3 - William Barksdale, Confederate journalist and general
*July 10 - Clement Clarke Moore, poet
*September 17 - Alfred de Vigny, poet
*September 20 - Jacob Grimm, fairy-tale author
*October 6 - Frances Trollope, novelist
*October 8 - Richard Whately, theologian
*December 17 - Émile Saisset, philosopher
*December 24 - William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist

Awards

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