1866 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1866.
Events
- Ludwig Anzengruber returns to Vienna after working as a travelling actor.
- Charles Baudelaire's collection Les Épaves is published in Belgium containing poems suppressed from Les Fleurs du mal (Paris, 1857) for outraging public morality.[1]
- Luigi Capuana becomes theatre critic for Italian newspaper The Nation.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment (Преступлéние и наказáние, Prestupleniye i nakazaniye) is serialized throughout the year in the monthly literary magazine Russkiy Vestnik (Русскій Вѣстникъ, "The Russian Messenger").[2] His novella The Gambler (Игрок, Igrok) is dictated to his future wife to meet a publisher deadline of November 1.[3]
- Josip Jurčič publishes Deseti brat ("The Tenth Brother"), the first full-length Slovene language novel.
- Nandshankar Mehta publishes Karana Ghelo ("The Idiot King Karana"), the first Gujarati language novel.[4]
- Hesba Stretton's children’s story Jessica's First Prayer is serialized in Sunday at Home (U.K.); as a book, it sells one and half million copies.[5]
- Algernon Charles Swinburne's first collection Poems and Ballads causes a sensation on publication in London, especially the poems written in homage to Sappho and the sadomasochistic "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)", and, under threat of prosecution, his original publisher, Moxon and Co., transfer publication rights to the more liberal John Camden Hotten.[6][7][8]
- Anthony Trollope's novel Nina Balatka: The Story of a Maiden of Prague is initially published anonymously (serialization in Blackwood's Magazine July 1866–January 1867) – Trollope is interested in discovering whether his books sell on their own merits or as a consequence of the author's name and reputation.
- Publication of the first detective fiction by women authors: the dime novel The Dead Letter, an American Romance by 'Seeley Regester' (Metta Victoria Fuller Victor) is published in New York City as the first full-length American work of crime fiction,[9] having begun to appear serially in the January Beadle’s Monthly; and Mary Fortune's story "The Dead Witness, or the Bush waterhole" is published in the Australian Journal on January 20.[10]
- Former English chess master Howard Staunton publishes a facsimile of the Shakespeare First Folio by photolithography.
- London publisher Samuel Orchart Beeton is obliged (as a result of the financial panic of May/June) to sell his titles and name to Ward Lock & Co.
- The American magazine for children Children's Hour publishes its first issue.
New books
Fiction
- Louisa May Alcott (as A. M. Barnard) - Behind a Mask, or A Woman's Power (novella published in The Flag of Our Union)
- R. D. Blackmore - Cradock Nowell
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay - Kapalkundala
- Wilkie Collins - Armadale (serialization completed & in book form)
- John Esten Cooke - Surry of Eagle's-Nest
- Alphonse Daudet - Letters From My Windmill (Lettres de mon moulin)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
- Alexandre Dumas, fils - L'Affaire Clemenceau
- George Eliot - Felix Holt, the Radical[11]
- Augusta Jane Evans - St. Elmo
- John William De Forest - Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty
- Émile Gaboriau - L'Affaire Lerouge
- Victor Hugo - Toilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la Mer)
- George MacDonald - Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
- Mrs Oliphant - Miss Marjoribanks
- Ouida - Chandos
- Charles Reade - Griffith Gaunt
- Emmanuel Rhoides - Ἡ Πάπισσα Ἰωάννα (I Papissa Ioanna, "Pope Joan")
- Felicia Skene (anonymously) - Hidden Depths
- Anthony Trollope - Nina Balatka
- José Milla y Vidaurre - La Hija del Adelantado
Children
- Hesba Stretton – Jessica's First Prayer
Drama
- Dion Boucicault - Rip van Winkle or The Sleep of Twenty Years
- Alexandre Dumas, fils - Heloise Paranquet
- Henrik Ibsen - Brand
- Dobri Voynikov - Princess Rayna
Poetry
- Charles Baudelaire - Les Épaves
- Algernon Charles Swinburne - Poems and Ballads
- Paul Verlaine - Poèmes saturniens, including "Chanson d'automne"
Non-fiction
- William Wells Brown - The Negro in the American Rebellion
- Friedrich Albert Lange - History of Materialism and Critique of its Present Importance (Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart, published October 1865 but dated 1866)
- John Robert Seeley (anonymously) - Ecce Homo[12]
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon - The Wordless Book
- Benjamin Thorpe assisted by Elise Otté (translator) - Edda Sæmundar Hinns Frôða: the Edda of Sæmund the Learned, from the old Norse or Icelandic
Births
- January 2 (December 21, 1865 OS) – Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică (Gheorghe Bogdan), Romanian literary critic (died 1934)
- January 29 – Romain Rolland, French dramatist, novelist and Nobel Prize-winner (died 1944)
- February 9 – George Ade, American columnist and playwright (died 1944)
- February 24 – Arthur Pearson, English writer and newspaper publisher (died 1921)
- March 2 – John Gray, English poet (died 1934)
- March 16 – E. K. Chambers, English literary scholar (died 1954)
- May 2 – Paul Kretschmer, German linguist (died 1956)
- July 28 – Beatrix Potter, English children's writer and illustrator (died 1943)
- August 12 – Jacinto Benavente, Spanish dramatist and Nobel Prize-winnter (died 1954)
- August 16 – Dora Sigerson, Irish poet (died 1918)
- September 7 – Tristan Bernard, French writer (died 1947)
- August 31 – Elizabeth von Arnim, née Mary Annette Beauchamp, Australian-born novelist (died 1941)
- September 21 – H. G. Wells, English novelist and social commentator (died 1946)
- October 28 – Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Spanish dramatist and novelist (died 1936)
- November 4 – Jane Findlater, Scottish novelist (died 1946)
- November 21 – Dusé Mohamed Ali, Egyptian-born political activist, journalist and dramatist (died 1945)
Deaths
- January 23 – Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (born 1785)
- February 2 – François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian historian and civil servant (born 1809)
- March 6 – William Whewell, English polymath and cleric (born 1794)
- March 29 – John Keble, English poet and cleric (born 1792)
- May 5 – John Critchley Prince, English poet (born 1808)
- June 16 – Joseph Méry, French satirist and librettist (born 1797)
- August 1 – Luigi Carlo Farini, Italian historian (born 1812)
- August 12 – Philip Stanhope Worsley, English poet and translator (born 1835)
- September 10 – Charles Maclaren, Scottish founding editor of The Scotsman (born 1782)
- September 14 – Léon Gozlan, French novelist and dramatist (born 1803)
- September 19 – Christian Hermann Weisse, German philosopher (born 1801)
- December 20 – Ann Taylor, English poet and critic (born 1782)
Awards
References
- ↑ Suarez, Michael F.; Woudhuysen, H. R., eds. (2013). The Book: A Global History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6.
- ↑ "Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment – Study Notes". University of Minnesota. Retrieved 2014-10-16.
- ↑ Jones, Malcolm (1991). Introduction to Notes from the Underground and The Gambler. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-953638-2.
- ↑ Reviewed by Navalram Pandya in Gujarat Mitra (1867).
- ↑ Susina, Jan (2008). The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature. New York: Routledge. p. 108. ISBN 0-415-93629-2.
- ↑
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hotten, John Camden". Dictionary of National Biography. 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co. - ↑ Prins, Yopie (1999). Victorian Sappho. Princeton University Press. p. 153. ISBN 0-691-05919-5.
- ↑ Kendrick, Walter M. (1996). The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 168. ISBN 0-520-20729-7.
- ↑ Orso, Miranda (2002). "Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller". Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ↑ Sussex, Lucy; Gibson, Elizabeth. "Mary Fortune". Victorian Secrets. Retrieved 2014-03-15.
- ↑ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1866". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
- ↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 287–288. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
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