1863 in literature

1863 in literature
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The year 1863 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

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 - The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements
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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