1871 in literature

1871 in literature

The year 1871 involved saw some significant events relevant to literature.

Events

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New books

*Louisa May Alcott - "Little Men"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "Fenton's Quest"
*Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - "The Coming Race"
*Lewis Carroll - "Through the Looking Glass"
*George Eliot - "Middlemarch"
*Henry James - "Watch and Ward"
*George Meredith - "The Adventures of Harry Richmond" -
*Johanna Spyri - "A Leaf on Vrony's Grave"
*Mark Twain
**"Eye Openers"
**"Screamers"
*Jules Verne - "A Floating City"
*Emile Zola - "La Fortune des Rougon"

New drama

*W. S. Gilbert - "Pygmalion and Galatea"

Poetry

Non-fiction

*Charles Darwin - "The Descent of Man"

Births

* March 27 - Heinrich Mann, narrator, dramatist and essayist (d. 1950)
* June 17 - James Weldon Johnson (+ 1938)
* July 3 - W. H. Davies, poet (d. 1940)
* July 10 - Marcel Proust, novelist (d. 1922)
* August 27 - Theodore Dreiser, novelist (d. 1945)
* September 27 - Grazia Deledda, (Italian) writer - Nobel prize winner (d. 1926)
* October 30 - Paul Valéry, French poet (d. 1945)
* November 1 - Stephen Crane, novelist (d. 1900)

Deaths

*February 12 - Alice Cary, poet (b. 1820)
*March 17 - Robert Chambers, Scottish writer, publisher (b. 1802)
*July 31 - Phoebe Cary, poet (b. 1824)

Awards

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