1862 in literature

1862 in literature

The year 1862 in literature involved some significant new books.

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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