- 1862 in literature
The year 1862 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
*February -
Ambrose Bierce joins the staff of GeneralWilliam Babcock Hazen .
*July 4 - Charles Dodgson (better known asLewis Carroll ) extemporises the story that becomes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland " for 10-year-oldAlice Liddell and her sisters on a rowing boat trip onThe Isis fromOxford toGodstow .
*November 26 -Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of "Alice's Adventures Underground" toAlice Liddell .
*Louisa May Alcott becomes a nurse at the Union hospital inGeorgetown, D.C.
*December 24 -William Dean Howells marries Elinor Mead at the American embassy in Paris.
*James Russell Lowell begins writing for "The North American Review".
*Nikolai Chernyshevsky is imprisoned in St Petersburg and begins his novel "What Is To Be Done?"
*Karl Heinrich Ulrichs begins writing about homosexuality under the pseudonym of "Numa Numantius".New books
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José de Alencar - "Lucíola "
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "Lady Audley's Secret "
*Wilkie Collins - "No Name "
*Thomas De Quincey - "Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets"
*Fyodor Dostoevsky - "The House of the Dead"
*Gustave Flaubert - "Salammbo "
*Eugène Fromentin - " Dominique"
*Edmond & Jules de Goncourt - "Sister Philomene "
*Victor Hugo - "Les Misérables "
*Henry Kingsley - "Ravenshoe"
*George MacDonald - "David Elginbrod "
*Elizabeth Stoddard - "The Morgesons "
*Ivan Turgenev - "Fathers and Sons "New drama
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Émile Augier - "Le Fils de Giboyer"Poetry
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Pavlo Chubynsky - "Ukraine's glory has not perished " (later the Ukrainian national anthem)
*George Meredith - "Modern Love"
*Christina Rossetti - "Goblin Market and other poems"Non-fiction
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John William Draper - "The History of the Intellectual Development of Europe"
*Julia Kavanagh - "French Women of Letters"
*John Ruskin - "Unto This Last"Births
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January 24 -Edith Wharton (+1937 )
*May 1 -Marcel Prévost , dramatist (+1941 )
*May 15 -Arthur Schnitzler , dramatist and novelist (+1931 )
*June 6 - SirHenry Newbolt , poet (+1938 )
*August 6 -Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson , historian (+1932 )
*August 29 -Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian poet, playwright (+1949 )
*September 27 - Francis Adams, poet, novelist, essayist and dramatist (+1893 )
*October 13 -Mary Kingsley , travel writer (+ 1900)
*December 8 -Georges Feydeau , French playwright (+1921 )
*December 16 -John Fox, Jr. , American novelist and journalist (+1919 )
*December 23 -Henri Pirenne , historian (+1935 )Deaths
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January 11 -Jean Philibert Damiron , philosopher
*February 24 -Bernhard Severin Ingemann , novelist and poet
*April 6 -Fitz James O'Brien , science fiction pioneer
*May 6 -Henry David Thoreau
*May 25 -Johann Nestroy , dramatist
*November 26 -Julia Pardoe , novelist and historian
*November 30 -James Sheridan Knowles , dramatist and actor
*"date unknown" -Charlotte Barton , children's author
*"date unknown" -Thomas Jefferson Hogg , biographerAwards
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