1862 in literature

1862 in literature
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The year 1862 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

February - Ambrose Bierce joins the staff of General William Babcock Hazen.
July 4 - Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) extemporises the story that becomes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a rowing boat trip on The Isis from Oxford to Godstow.
November 26 - Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell.
Louisa May Alcott becomes a nurse at the Union hospital in Georgetown, 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

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

Émile Augier - Le Fils de Giboyer

Poetry

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

John William Draper - The History of the Intellectual Development of Europe
Julia Kavanagh - French Women of Letters
John Ruskin - Unto This Last

Births

January 24 - Edith Wharton (+ 1937)
May 1 - Marcel Prévost, dramatist (+ 1941)
May 15 - Arthur Schnitzler, dramatist and novelist (+ 1931)
June 6 - Sir Henry 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

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, biographer

Awards

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