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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1867.
Video 1867 in literature
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: ?????? ?????? ????????, translit. 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.
Maps 1867 in literature
New books
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 («?????», 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 («???», 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 ver?? (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
- Henry Maudsley - The Physiology and Pathology of Mind
- 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)
- February 27 - George Diamandy, Romanian journalist, dramatist, and political figure (died 1917)
- May 1 - Harry Leon Wilson, American author and playwright (died 1939)
- May 7 - W?adys?aw 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)
- September 25 - Katharine Glasier (born Katharine Conway), English writer and socialist (died 1950)
- October 2 - Timrava (Bo?ena Slan?íková), Slovak novelist, short story writer and playwright (died 1951)
- October 31 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (died 1911)
- December 24 - Tevfik Fikret, Ottoman Turkish poet and journalist (died 1915).
- 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)
- November 19 - Fitz-Greene Halleck, American poet (born 1790)
- Unknown date - Charlotte Barton, Australian children's author (born 1797)
Awards
- Newdigate Prize - Robert Campbell Moberly
References
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