1876 in literature
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The year 1876 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] New books
- William Harrison Ainsworth
- Louisa May Alcott - Rose in Bloom
- Machado de Assis - Helena
- Isabella Banks - The Manchester Man
- Rhoda Broughton - Joan
- Robert Buchanan - The Shadow of the Sword
- Wilkie Collins - The Two Destinies
- Alphonse Daudet - Jack
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - A Gentle Creature
- George Eliot - Daniel Deronda
- Benito Pérez Galdós - Doña Perfecta
- John Habberton - Helen's Babies
- Thomas Hardy - The Hand of Ethelberta
- Joris-Karl Huysmans - Martha
- Herman Melville - Clarel
- Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Jules Verne - Michael Strogoff
- Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Three Brides
- Emile Zola - Son Excellence Eugène Rougon
[edit] New drama
- Émile Augier - Madame Caverlet
- W. S. Gilbert - Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith
- Henrik Ibsen - Peer Gynt (first performed)
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
[edit] Births
- January 12 - Jack London (d. 1916)
- February 16 - G. M. Trevelyan, historian (d. 1962)
- March 4 - Léon-Paul Fargue, poet (d. 1947)
- April 13 - Sidney Bradshaw Fay (d. 1967)
- April 22 - Ole Edvart Rolvaag, Norwegian-American writer (d. 1931)
- May 10 - Ivan Cankar, dramatist and poet (d. 1918)
- June 2 - Konstantin Trenyov, dramatist (d. 1945)
- July 12 - Max Jacob, poet (d. 1944)
- September 13 - Sherwood Anderson (d. 1941)
- November 1 - Anne de Noailles, French writer (d. 1933)
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 - Juste Olivier, poet (b. 1807)
- January 19 - George Julius Poulett Scrope, political economist (b. 1797)
- February 3 - Gino Capponi, historian (b. 1792)
- February 27 - Afanasy Shchapov, historian (b. 1830)
- March 2 - Johannes Falke, historian (b. 1823)
- May 7 - William Buell Sprague, biographer (b. 1795)
- May 24 - Henry Kingsley, novelist (b. 1830)
- May 26 - František Palacký, historian (b. 1798)
- June 8 - George Sand, French novelist (b. 1804)
- June 27 - Harriet Martineau, philosopher and feminist writer (b. 1802)
- July 14 - James Henry, poet (b. 1798)
- July 24 - John William Kaye, military historian (b. 1814)
- July 25 - Robert Caesar Childers, orientalist (b. 1838)
- October 7 - Georg Heinrich Pertz, historian (b. 1795)
- October 18 - Francis Preston Blair, journalist (b. 1791)
- November 24 - Maria Francesca Rossetti, writer and sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti (b. 1827)
- December 30 - Christian Winther, lyric poet (b. 1796)
- date unknown
- Catherine Crowe, novelist and children's writer (b. c. 1803)
- Joshua Hobson, pamphleteer (b. 1810)
