1864 in literature
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The year 1864 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- Ambrose Bierce is wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
- Charles Baudelaire leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties.
- Henrik Ibsen leaves Norway for Italy in a self-imposed exile that will last for 27 years.
- A debate at the Royal Geographical Society between Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke fails to take place, owing to Speke's suicide (or accidental shooting).
- Alexandre Dumas, fils marries Nadejda Naryschkine. His father, Alexandre Dumas, père, returns to Paris from Italy.
- John Addington Symonds the younger marries Janet Catherine North.
- James Payn publishes his most popular story, Lost Sir Massingberd, in Chambers's Journal.
[edit] New books
- José de Alencar - Diva
- Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly -Chevalier Destouches
- R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Henry Dunbar: the Story of an Outcast
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
- George Eliot - "Brother Jacob"
- Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters
- Edmond de Goncourt & Jules de Goncourt -Renée Mauperin
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- Nikolai Leskov - Now Way Out
- George MacDonald - The Light Princess
- Anthony Trollope - The Small House at Allington
- Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth
[edit] New drama
[edit] Poetry
- Robert Browning - Dramatis Personae
- Alfred Tennyson - Enoch Arden
- Alfred de Vigny - Les Destinées (posthumously published)
[edit] Non-fiction
- American Dictionary of the English Language (Webster's), revised edition
- George Perkins Marsh - Man and Nature
- Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave from Kentucky
- John Henry Newman - Apologia Pro Vita Sua
- John Ruskin - Cestus of Aglaia
[edit] Births
- January 24 - Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and feminist leader (died 1936)
- February 14 - Israel Zangwill, novelist and playwright, (died 1926)
- April 21 - Max Weber, sociologist (died 1920)
- July 20 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1931)
- October 14 - Stefan Żeromski, novelist, poet and dramatist (died 1925)
- November 11
- Alfred Hermann Fried, pacifist writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1921)
- Maurice Leblanc, novelist and crime writer (died 1941)
- December 12 - Paul Elmer More, critic and essayist (died 1937)
[edit] Deaths
- January 16 - Anton Felix Schindler, biographer of Beethoven (born 1795)
- January 29 - Lucy Aikin, historian (born 1781)
- February 2 - Adelaide Anne Procter, poet (born 1825)
- March 16 - Robert Smith Surtees, novelist and sports writer (born 1805)
- May 19 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist (born 1804)
- May 20 - John Clare, poet (born 1793)
- May 26 - Charles Sealsfield, novelist (born 1793)
- July 4 - Thomas Colley Grattan, novelist (born 1792)
- August 7 - Janez Puhar, poet (born 1814)
- September - Antônio Gonçalves Dias, poet (born 1823) (lost at sea)
- September 17 - Walter Savage Landor, poet (born 1775)
- December 6 - Simonas Daukantas, Lithuanian ethnographer and historian (born 1793)
