1865 in literature

1865 in literature

The year 1865 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* June 9 - Charles Dickens is involved in the Staplehurst rail crash.
* November 18 - Mark Twain's story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York "Saturday Press".
*Edwin Abbott Abbott becomes headmaster of the City of London School at the age of 26.

New books

*José de Alencar - "Iracema"
*R M Ballantyne -"The Lighthouse"
*Lewis Carroll - "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
*Charles Dickens - "Our Mutual Friend"
*Edmond de Goncourt - "Germinie Lacerteux"
*Charles Kingsley - "Hereward the Wake"
*Sheridan Le Fanu - "Guy Deverell"
*George MacDonald - "Alec Forbes of Howglen"
*Robert Smith Surtees - "Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds"
*Jules Verne - "From the Earth to the Moon"
*Emile Zola - "La Confession de Claude"

New drama

*Francis Burnand - "Windsor Castle"
*Henrik Ibsen - "Brand"

Poetry

*Edward Lear - "The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple"

Non-fiction

*"Annals of Joseon Dynasty" (final volume)
*P. T. Barnum - "The Humbugs of the World"
*Elizabeth Gaskell - "The Life of Charlotte Bronte"
*Jacob Grimm - "Deutsche Sagen"
*Karl Marx - "Value, Price and Profit"
*John Stuart Mill - "Examinations of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy"
*James Hutchison Stirling - "The Secret of Hegel: Being the Hegelian System in Origin Principle, Form and Matter"
*James Hudson Taylor - "China's Spiritual Need and Claims"

Births

*February 21 - John Haden Badley, teacher and writer (+ 1967)
* March 15 - Edith Maude Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (+ 1914)
*March 20 - Arthur Bayldon, poet (+ 1958)
*March 29 - Stephen Bonsal, diplomat and writer (+ 1951)
* June 13 - William Butler Yeats (+ 1939)
*June 26 - Bernard Berenson, art historian (+ 1959)
*August 14 - Pietro Gori, poet (+ 1911)
*September 11 - Rainis, poet and dramatist (+ 1929)
* December 30 - Rudyard Kipling (+ 1936)
*"date unknown" - Enrico Corradini, novelist and journalist (+ 1931)

Deaths

*January 11 - Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland, historian
*January 18 - Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville, diarist
*January 19 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, philosopher
*January 21 - Joseph Xavier Saintine, novelist and dramatist
*February 6 - Isabella Beeton, household management expert
*February 25 - Otto Ludwig, German novelist/playwright
*April 2
**John Cassell, publisher
**Richard Cobden, political writer
*April 15 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America
*May 14 - Pierre François Xavier de Ram, historian
*June 10 - Lydia Sigourney, poet
*September 30 - Dudley Costello, journalist and novelist
*November 12 - Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist
*December 1 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, poet
*December 3 - Joseph Marie Quérard, bibliographer
*"date unknown" - William Edmonstoune Aytoun, poet and humorist

Awards

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