1869 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1869.

Events

• February 3 – Booth's Theatre opens on Manhattan with the owner, Edwin Booth, playing the male lead in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . ^[1]
• May 10 – As a protest against her drama school having been closed down by the Russian authorities, Swedish-born actress Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm delivers the lines in her next performance, Aleksis Kivi's Lea, in the Finnish language, the first time it has been spoken in the public theatre in Finland.
• May 22 – Serial publication of Anthony Trollope's novel He Knew He Was Right concludes and it appears in London as the first book to include a fictional private investigator, ex-policeman Samuel Bozzle. ^[2]
• August
  • Ambrose Bierce, writing a satirical column for the San Francisco News Letter, begins to produce the cynical definitions which will eventually become The Devil's Dictionary . ^[3]
  • Macmillan Publishing opens its first American office in New York City, headed by George Edward Brett. ^[4]
• October 5 – Model, poet and artist Elizabeth Siddal (d. 1862) is exhumed at Highgate Cemetery in London in order to recover the manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems buried with her. ^[5]
• December – Publication of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace («Война и миръ», Voyna i mir) complete in book form concludes. It is printed in Moscow and sold by the author on subscription. ^[6]
• unknown dates – Eiríkur Magnússon and William Morris publish their first translations of Old Icelandic sagas into English: Grettis Saga: The Story of Grettir the Strong (from Grettis saga ) and The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-tongue and Raven the Skald (from Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu ).

New books

Fiction

• Thomas Bailey Aldrich – The Story of a Bad Boy ^[7]
• Ignacio Manuel Altamirano – Clemencia (debut novel) ^[8]
• Horatio Alger, Jr. – Luck and Pluck ^[9]
• R. M. Ballantyne – Erling the Bold
• R. D. Blackmore – Lorna Doone ^[10]
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The Idiot (Идіотъ) ^[11]
• Alexandre Dumas, père – The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, unfinished; first published 2005)
• Gustave Flaubert – Sentimental Education (L'Éducation sentimentale) ^[12]
• Émile Gaboriau – Monsieur Lecoq ^[13]
• Ivan Goncharov – The Precipice (Обрыв)
• Edmond and Jules de Goncourt – Madame Gervaisais
• Victor Hugo – The Man Who Laughs (L'Homme qui rit)
• Sheridan Le Fanu – The Wyvern Mystery
• Nikolai Leskov – Old Years in Plodomasovo («Ста′рые го′ды в селе′ Плодома′сове» published serially in Russkiy Vestnik )
• Joaquim Manuel de Macedo – A Luneta Mágica (The Magical Glasses) ^[14]
• Hector Malot – Romain Kalbris ^[15]
• Florence Montgomery – Misunderstood ^[16]
• Charles Reade – Foul Play
• Capt. Hawley Smart – Breezie Langton
• Hesba Stretton – Alone in London
• Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace
• Anthony Trollope (serial publication concludes and book publication)
  • He Knew He Was Right
  • Phineas Finn (2nd of the Palliser novels)
• Charlotte M. Yonge – The Chaplet of Pearls

Children and young people

• Louisa May Alcott – Good Wives ^[17]
• Frances Freeling Broderip
  • Tales of the Toys told by Themselves ^[18]
  • The Daisy and her Friends: Tales and Stories for Children
• Juliana Horatia Ewing – Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances ^[19]
• Jean Ingelow – Mopsa the Fairy ^[20]
• A. D. T. Whitney – Hitherto

Drama

• Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson – Sigurd Slembe (Sigurd the Bastard, trilogy, first performed, in Germany)
• François Coppée – Le Passant
• Navalram Pandya – Veermati
• Mendele Mocher Sforim – Di Takse (The Tax, unperformed)
• Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin – Scenes from the Past

Poetry

• Henry Kendall – Leaves from Australian Forests

Non-fiction

• Matthew Arnold – Culture and Anarchy ^[21]
• P. T. Barnum – Struggles and Triumphs
• Josephine Butler (editor) – Women's Work and Women's Culture
• Warren Felt Evans – The Mental Cure, illustrating the influence of the Mind on the Body
• William Ewart Gladstone – Juventus Mundi: The gods and men of "the heroic" age
• John Stuart Mill – The Subjection of Women
• John Neal — Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life: An Autobiography ^[22]
• Anthony Trollope – On English Prose Fiction as a Rational Amusement
• Mark Twain – The Innocents Abroad
• Richard Wagner – Das Judenthum in der Musik (Jewishness in Music)
• Garnet Wolseley – Soldier’s Pocket-book for Field Service

Births

• January 10 – Rachel Davis Harris, African American librarian (died 1969)
• January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter and architect (died 1907)
• February 8 – Victor Ido, born Hans van de Wall, Dutch East Indian journalist, novelist and playwright (died 1948)
• February 11 – Else Lasker-Schüler, German-born poet, playwright and short story writer (died 1945)
• March 11
  • F. G. Loring, English writer and naval officer (died 1951)
  • Rosa Louise Woodberry, American journalist and educator (died 1932)
• March 14 – Algernon Blackwood, English writer (died 1951) ^[23]
• May 23 – Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, American poet (died 1944)
• June 10 – Arthur Shearly Cripps, English-born poet, short story writer and Anglican priest in Africa (died 1952)
• July 1 – William Strunk, Jr., American professor of English (died 1946)
• July 8 – William Vaughn Moody, American dramatist and poet (died 1910)
• July 29 – Booth Tarkington, American novelist (died 1946)
• August 10 – Laurence Binyon, English poet and dramatist (died 1943) ^[24]
• September 6 – Felix Salten, Austrian author and critic (died 1945) ^[25]
• October 6 – Bo Bergman, Swedish poet (died 1967) ^[26]
• November 15 – Charlotte Mew, English poet (died 1928) ^[27]
• November 20 – Zinaida Gippius, Russian writer (died 1945)
• November 22 – André Gide, French writer (died 1951) ^[28]
• December 22 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (died 1935) ^[29]
• December 30 – Stephen Leacock, English-born Canadian humorist and economist (died 1944)

Deaths

• January 20 – Carl Wilhelm Göttling, German classical commentator (born 1793) ^[30]
• January 28 – Sophie Bolander, Swedish writer (born 1807) ^[31]
• January 30
  • Frances Catherine Barnard, English writer (born 1796)
  • William Carleton, Irish writer (born 1794)
• February 15 – Ghalib, Indian poet (born 1796)
• February 28 – Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and politician (born 1790) ^[32]
• March 31 – David Rees (Y Cynhyrfwr), Nonconformist leader and author (born 1801) ^[33]
• May 16 – Giovanni Peruzzini, Italian poet, opera librettist, and translator of German literature (born 1815) ^[34]
• May 18 – Peter Cunningham, British literary scholar and antiquarian (born 1816)
• July 7 – Paul Botten-Hansen, Norwegian librarian, book collector, magazine editor and literary critic (born 1824) ^[35]
• July 11 – William Jerdan, Scottish-born editor (born 1782)
• July 15 – Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker, German publisher (born 1781)
• July 19 – Victor Aimé Huber, German travel writer and literary historian (born 1800)
• July 22 – Julius Braun, German historian (born 1825)
• August 2 – Thomas Medwin, English poet, biographer and translator (born 1788)
• September 12 – Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (born 1779)
• October – John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet (born 1810) ^[36]
• October 13 – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804) ^[37]
• October 18 – Simon Jenko, Slovene poet (born 1835)^{[ citation needed ]}
• November 3 – Andreas Kalvos, Greek Romantic poet and dramatist (born 1792)
• November 12 – Gheorghe Asachi, Moldavian polymath (born 1788) ^[38]

Notes

• Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Second ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780198715542.

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