1869 in literature
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The year 1869 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• Macmillan Publishing opens first American office in New York City headed by George Edward Brett

New books

• Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives
• R M Ballantyne -Erling the Bold
• Horatio Alger, Jr. - Luck and Pluck
• R. D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone
• Alexandre Dumas, père - The Knight of Sainte-Hermine
• Gustave Flaubert - Sentimental Education
• Emile Gaboriau - Monsieur Lecocq
• Ivan Goncharov - The Precipice
• Edmond de Goncourt & Jules de Goncourt -Madame Gervaisais
• Victor Hugo - L'Homme Qui Rit
• Sheridan Le Fanu - The Wyvern Mystery
• Joaquim Manuel de Macedo - A Luneta Mágica
• Hector Malot - Romain Kalbris
• Hesba Stretton - Alone in London
• Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
• Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad
• Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Chaplet of Pearls

Poetry

• Henry Kendall -Leaves from Australian Forests

Non-fiction

• Matthew Arnold - Culture and Anarchy
• P. T. Barnum - Struggles and Triumphs
• John Stuart Mill - The Subjection of Women
• Richard Wagner - Das Judenthum in der Musik

Births

• March 14 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (+ 1951)
• July 29 - Booth Tarkington (+ 1946)
• August 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar (+ 1943)
• October 6 - Bo Bergman, poet (+ 1967)
• November 22 - André Gide, author (+ 1951)
• December 30 - Stephen Leacock (+ 1944)

Deaths

• January 20 - Carl Wilhelm Göttling, classical commentator
• February 28 - Alphonse de Lamartine, poet
• July 19 - Victor Aimé Huber, travel writer and literary historian
• October 18 - Simon Jenko, poet
• November 3 - Andreas Kalvos, dramatist

Awards