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1867 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1867.

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Events

  • By February – The first blue plaque is erected in London by the Society of Arts on the birthplace (1788) of poet Lord Byron (subsequently demolished).
  • October 3 – Anthony Trollope tenders his resignation from his senior administrative position in the British General Post Office in order to write full-time.
  • December 2 – Charles Dickens begins a reading tour of the United States in New York City.
  • Publication of Leo Tolstoy's 1805, an early version of War and Peace, concludes in The Russian Messenger.
  • Première of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's historical drama The Death of Ivan the Terrible (Russian: Смерть Иоанна Грозного, Smert Ioa′nna Gro′znogo, written in 1863 and first published in 1866) at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, the first of a trilogy.
  • The Leipzig publisher Reclam introduces its Universal-Bibliothek series of cheap paperback reprints with an edition of Goethe's Faust.
  • Mrs. Henry Wood purchases and begins editing the British fiction magazine Argosy.
  • Three new American periodicals for children — Oliver Optic's Magazine, Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly, and the Riverside Magazine for Young People — are launched.

    • Fiction

  • Horatio Alger, Jr. – Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks (serialization in Student and Schoolmate)
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Circe
  • Rhoda Broughton
  • Cometh Up as a Flower
  • Not Wisely, But Too Well
  • Charles Theodore Henri de Coster – The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak (La Légende et les Aventures héroïques, joyeuses et glorieuses d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak au pays de Flandres et ailleurs)
  • John William De Forest – Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The Gambler («Игрок», Igrok, novella)
  • Augusta Jane Evans – St. Elmo
  • Émile Gaboriau – The Mystery of Orcival (Le Crime d'Orcival)
  • Goncourt brothers – Manette Salomon
  • Jorge Isaacs – María
  • Ippolito Nievo – Le confessioni di un ottagenario (translated as The Castle of Fratta)
  • Caroline Norton – Old Sir Douglas (serialization concluded)
  • Ouida – Under Two Flags
  • Anthony Trollope
  • The Last Chronicle of Barset (sixth of the Chronicles of Barsetshire; serial publication concludes July 6; book publication in 2 vols, March–July)
  • Phineas Finn (second of the Palliser novels; serialization begins in Saint Paul's Magazine, October)
  • Ivan Turgenev – Smoke («Дым», Dym)
  • Mark Twain – The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (collected short stories)
  • Émile Zola – Thérèse Raquin

    • Children and young people

  • George Manville Fenn – Hollowdell Grange
  • G. A. Henty – A Search for a Secret
  • Hesba Stretton – Jessica's First Prayer

    • Drama

  • Erckmann-Chatrian – Le Juif Polonais
  • W. S. Gilbert – Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren
  • Henrik Ibsen – Peer Gynt (first published)
  • Navalram Pandya – Bhatnu Bhopalu
  • Thomas William Robertson – Caste

    • Poetry

  • Matthew Arnold – New Poems, including "Dover Beach"
  • William Morris – The Life and Death of Jason
  • Jan Neruda – Knihy veršů ("Books of Verses")
  • Piet Paaltjens (François Haverschmidt) – Snikken en grimlachjes: poëzie uit den studententijd ("Sobs and Bitter Grins: poetry of student days")
  • Henry Timrod – "Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867"

    • Non-fiction

  • Walter Bagehot – The English Constitution (in book form)
  • Edward Augustus Freeman – The History of the Norman Conquest of England (completed in six volumes in 1879)
  • William Carew Hazlitt – Handbook to the Popular, Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain, from the Invention of Printing to the Restoration
  • Francis Marrash – Rihlat Baris
  • Karl Marx – Das Kapital
  • William Makepeace Thackeray – The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: a series of lectures
  • William Thomson – Treatise on Natural Philosophy

    • Births

  • January 18 – Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet (died 1916)
  • February 7 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American novelist (died 1957)
  • February 18 – Hedwig Courths-Mahler (Ernestine Friederike Elisabeth Mahler), German novelist (died 1950)
  • May 7 – Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel laureate (died 1925)
  • May 8 – Margarete Böhme, German novelist (died 1939)
  • May 27 – Arnold Bennett, English novelist (died 1931)
  • June 8 – Dagny Juel, Norwegian writer (murdered 1901)
  • August 9 – H. E. Marshall, Scottish history writer for children (died 1941)
  • October 2 – Timrava (Božena Slančíková), Slovak novelist, short story writer and playwright (died 1951)
  • October 31 – David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (died 1911)
  • December 25 – Alfred Kempner, German-Jewish theatre critic (committed suicide 1948)

    • Deaths

  • May 27 – Thomas Bulfinch, American collector of myths and legends (born 1796)
  • July 31 – Catharine Sedgwick, American novelist (born 1789)
  • August 8 – Sarah Austin, English editor and translator (born 1793)
  • August 31 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet, critic and translator (stroke, born 1821)
  • October 7 – Henry Timrod, American poet (tuberculosis, born 1829)
  • October 29 – Frederick Chamier, English novelist and Royal Navy captain (born 1796)
  • Unknown date – Charlotte Barton, Australian children's author (born 1797)

    • Awards

  • Newdigate Prize – Robert Campbell Moberly

    • References

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