1862 in literature
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
| +... |
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1862.
Events
- February – Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons (Отцы и дети – old spelling Отцы и дѣти, Ottsy i dety, literally "Fathers and Children") is published by Russkiy Vestnik in Moscow.
- March 30 or 31 – The first two volumes of Victor Hugo's epic historical novel Les Misérables appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October.
- April 6 – Two months after joining the staff of General William Babcock Hazen, Ambrose Bierce joins in the Battle of Shiloh, later the subject of a memoir.[1] Among those on the opposite side is the future journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who will also record his experiences.[2]
- April 28 – Thomas Hardy becomes an assistant to architect Arthur Blomfield.[3]
- June – Nikolai Chernyshevsky is imprisoned in Saint Petersburg and begins his novel What Is To Be Done?[4]
- June 4 – Henry Morton Stanley, now a "Galvanized Yankee", joins the Union Army; he is discharged 18 days later because of illness.[5]
- July – George Eliot's historical novel Romola begins serialization in Cornhill Magazine, the first time she has published a full-length book in this format. George Murray Smith of the publishers Smith, Elder & Co. has agreed a £7,000 advance for it.[6]
- July 1 – Moscow's first free public library opens as The Library of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumiantsev Museum, predecessor of the Russian State Library.
- July 4 – Charles Dodgson (better known as by his later pseudonym Lewis Carroll) extemporises a story for 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a rowing trip on The Isis from Oxford to Godstow. The story becomes a manuscript titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground and is published in 1865 as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.[7]
- September 23 – Leo Tolstoy marries Sophia (Sonya) Andreevna Behrs, 16 years his junior, in Moscow, having given her a diary detailing his previous sexual relations.
- November 26 – Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell.[8]
- November 29 – Serialization of The Notting Hill Mystery by "Charles Felix" (probably Charles Warren Adams) commences in Once A Week (London), with illustrations by George du Maurier; it is seen as the first full-length detective novel in English.[9][10]
- December – Louisa May Alcott becomes a nurse at the Union hospital in Georgetown, D.C.
- December 24 – William Dean Howells marries Elinor Mead at the American Embassy in Paris.
Uncertain dates
- James Russell Lowell begins writing for The North American Review.
- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs begins writing about homosexuality under the pseudonym of "Numa Numantius".
New books
Fiction
- José de Alencar – Lucíola
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Lady Audley's Secret
- Camilo Castelo Branco – Amor de Perdição
- Wilkie Collins – No Name
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – The House of the Dead (Записки из Мёртвого дома, Zapiski iz Myortvogo doma, book publication)
- George Eliot – Romola (serialization)
- Gustave Flaubert – Salammbo
- Eugène Fromentin – Dominique
- The Goncourt brothers (Edmond and Jules de Goncourt) – Sister Philomene (Sœur Philomène)
- Victor Hugo – Les Misérables
- Henry Kingsley – Ravenshoe
- George MacDonald – David Elginbrod
- Watts Phillips – The Honour of the Family
- Fritz Reuter – From My Farming Days
- Elizabeth Stoddard – The Morgesons
- William Makepeace Thackeray – The Adventures of Philip
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy – Prince Serebrenni (Князь Серебряный)
- Anthony Trollope – Orley Farm (publication completed)
- Ivan Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
- Mrs. Henry Wood – The Channings
Children and young people
- Frances Freeling Broderip – Tale of the Toys, Told by Themselves
- Catherine Crowe – The Adventures of a Monkey
- F. W. Farrar – St. Winifred's or The World of School
- Henrietta Keddie (as Sarah Tytler) – Papers for Thoughtful Girls, with illustrative sketches of some girls' lives
- Charlotte Yonge
- Countess Kate
- The Stokesley Secret
Drama
- Émile Augier – Le Fils de Giboyer
- María Bibiana Benítez – La Cruz del Morro (The Cross of El Morro)
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson – Sigurd Slembe (Sigurd the Bastard, trilogy, published)
- Henrik Ibsen – Love's Comedy (Kjærlighedens Komedie, first published)
- Watts Phillips – His Last Victory
- Edmund Yates – Invitations
Poetry
- Pavlo Chubynsky – "Shche ne vmerla Ukraina" (Ukraine's glory has not perished, later the text of the Ukrainian national anthem)
- Henrik Ibsen – Terje Vigen
- George Meredith – Modern Love
- Christina Rossetti – Goblin Market and other poems
Non-fiction
- John Hill Burton – The Book-Hunter
- Thomas De Quincey – Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets
- John William Draper – The History of the Intellectual Development of Europe
- Theodor Fontane – Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg, volume 1, Die Grafschaft Ruppin
- Julia Kavanagh
- English Women of Letters
- French Women of Letters
- George Perkins Marsh – The Origin and History of the English Language
- John Ruskin – Unto This Last
- Elizabeth Missing Sewell – Impressions of Rome, Florence, and Turin
- Samuel Smiles – Lives of the Engineers (5 volumes)
- Leo Tolstoy – "The School at Yasnaya Polyana"
Births
- January 24 – Edith Wharton, American novelist (died 1937)
- February 17 – Mori Ōgai (森 鷗外), Japanese army surgeon, poet, translator and realist fiction writer (died 1922)
- May 1 – Marcel Prévost, French dramatist (died 1941)
- May 9 – Hugh Stowell Scott (Henry Seton Merriman), English novelist (died 1903)
- May 15 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist and novelist (died 1931)
- June 6 – Henry Newbolt, English poet (died 1938)
- June 18 – Carolyn Wells, American novelist and poet (died 1942)[11]
- August 1 – Montague Rhodes James, English scholar and short story writer (died 1936)
- August 2 – Paul Bujor, Romanian politician, zoologist and short story writer (died 1952)
- August 6 – Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, English historian (died 1932)
- August 29 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright (died 1949)
- September 2 – Okakura Kakuzō (岡倉 覚三), Japanese writer on the arts (died 1913)
- September 27 – Francis Adams, Anglo-Australian poet, novelist and dramatist (died 1893)
- October 13 – Mary Kingsley, English travel writer (died 1900)
- November 15 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, novelist and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1946)
- December 8 – Georges Feydeau, French farceur (died 1921)
- December 16 – John Fox, Jr., American novelist and journalist (died 1919)
- December 23 – Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (died 1935)
Deaths
- January 11 – Jean Philibert Damiron, French philosopher (born 1794)
- February 24 – Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Danish novelist and poet (born 1789)
- April 6 – Fitz James O'Brien, Irish-American science fiction pioneer (born 1828)
- May 6 – Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher (born 1817)
- May 25 – Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist (born 1801)
- August 27 – Thomas Jefferson Hogg, English biographer (born 1792)
- November 26 – Julia Pardoe, English novelist and historian (born 1806)
- November 30 – James Sheridan Knowles, Irish dramatist and actor (born 1784)
- December 17 – Katherine Thomson, writing as Grace Wharton, English novelist and historian (born 1797)[12]
Awards
- Gaisford Prize – Robert William Raper (Trinity) for comic iambic verse: Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II, Act 4, Sc. 3[13]
- Newdigate Prize – Arthur C. Auchmuty, "Julian the Apostate"
References
- ^ Cozzens, Peter (April 1996). "The Tormenting Flame: What Ambrose Bierce Saw in a Fire-Swept Thicket at Shiloh Haunted Him for the rest of his Life". Civil War Times Illustrated. XXXV (1): 44–54.
- ^ Arnold, James (1998). Shiloh 1862 – the death of innocence. London: Osprey Publishing. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-85532-606-4.
- ^ Pinion, F. B. (1994-06-07). Thomas Hardy: His Life and Friends. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 59–. ISBN 978-1-349-13594-3.
- ^ Simpkin, John (1997–2013). "Nikolai Chernyshevsky". Spartacus Educational. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
- ^ Gallop, Alan (2004). Mr Stanley, I presume – the life and explorations of Henry Morton Stanley. Stroud: Sutton. p. 61. ISBN 978-0750930932.
- ^ Spittles, Brian (1993). George Eliot: Godless Woman. Basingstoke; London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 0-333-57218-1.
- ^ Cavendish, Richard (July 2012). "The Alice in Wonderland story first told". History Today. 62 (7). Retrieved 2016-05-01.
- ^ Davies, Mark J. (2010). Alice in Waterland: Lewis Carroll and the River Thames in Oxford. Oxford: Signal Books. ISBN 978-1904955726.
- ^ Collins, Paul (2011-01-07). "Before Hercule or Sherlock, There Was Ralph". The New York Times Book Review.
- ^ Symons, Julian (1972). Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel. London: Faber and Faber. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-571-09465-3.
There is no doubt that the first detective novel, preceding Collins and Gaboriau, was The Notting Hill Mystery.
- ^ "Carolyn Wells | American writer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
- ^ Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1863. p. 694.
- ^ Raper, Robert W. (1862). Gaisford Prize: Greek Iambics Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, July 2, MDCCCLXII Oxford: T. and G. Shrimpton, online at books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-08-14.