1867 in literature
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The year 1867 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- Three new American periodicals for children — Oliver Optic's Magazine, Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly, and the Riverside Magazine for Young People — all begin publishing.
[edit] New books
- Charles Theodore Henri de Coster - The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak
- Augusta Evans - St. Elmo
- Émile Gaboriau - The Mystery of Orcival
- Edmond & Jules de Goncourt - Manette Salomon
- Thomas Hardy - The Poor Man and the Lady (Hardy's first novel - unpublished)
- William Morris - The Life and Death of Jason
- Ippolito Nievo - The Castle of Fratta
- Ouida - Under Two Flags
- Hesba Stretton - Jessica's First Prayer
- Anthony Trollope - The Last Chronicle of Barsetshire
- Mark Twain - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
- Ivan Turgenev - Smoke
- Emile Zola - Thérèse Raquin
[edit] New drama
- Henrik Ibsen - Peer Gynt (first published)
- Thomas William Robertson - Caste
[edit] New poetry
- Henry Timrod - "Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867"
[edit] Non-fiction
[edit] Births
- January 18 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet (d. 1916)
- February 7 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American novelist (d. 1957)
- February 18 - Hedwig Courths-Mahler, novelist (d. 1950)
- May 8 - Margarete Böhme, German novelist (d. 1939)
- May 27 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
- October 31 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (d. 1911)
[edit] Deaths
- May 27 - Thomas Bulfinch, American author
- July 31 - Catharine Maria Sedgwick, American novelist
- August 8 - Sarah Austin, historian
- August 31 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet and writer
- 7 October - Henry Timrod, Confederate poet
