1862 in literature
Overview of the events of 1862 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1862 .
Events
February – Ivan Turgenev 's novel Fathers and Sons Ottsy i dety Russkiy Vestnik
March 30 or 31 – The first two volumes of Victor Hugo 's epic historical novel Les Misérables 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] 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 Cornhill Magazine 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 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [ 7] Illustration from the cover of Christina Rossetti 's Goblin Market and Other Poems Dante Gabriel Rossetti Uncertain dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 24 – Edith Wharton , American novelist (died 1937 )[ 11] February 17 – Mori Ōgai (森 鷗外), Japanese army surgeon, poet, translator and realist fiction writer (died 1922 )April 11 – Lurana W. Sheldon , American author and newspaper editor (died 1945 )[citation needed 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 )[ 12] July 16 – Ida B. Wells , American journalist and novelist (died 1931 )[ 13]
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 )[ 14] August 21 – Emilio Salgari , Italian adventure novelist (died 1911 )[ 15] August 29 – Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian poet and playwright (died 1949 )[ 16] 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 )[ 17] 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 )date unknown — Jessie King , Scottish essayist, poet, journalist (year of death unknown)
Deaths
January 11 – Jean Philibert Damiron , French philosopher (born 1794 )February 24 – Bernhard Severin Ingemann , Danish novelist and poet (born 1789 )February 27 (February 16 O.S. ) – Constantin Sion , Moldavian polemicist, genealogist and literary forger (born 1795 )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 )[ 18]
Awards
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 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. ^ Dictionary of World Biography . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. 1999. p. 3953. ISBN 9781579580483 ^ "Carolyn Wells | American writer" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 22 January 2020 .^ McBride, Jennifer (1998). "Ida B. Wells: Crusade for Justice" (online). Webster University . Retrieved January 30, 2013 . ^ P. D. Proctor, (1949), pages 225–227 in "The Dictionary of National Biography 1931–1940", edited by L. G. Wickham Legg, London: Oxford University Press, 968 pages (hardcover)
^ Paola Irene Galli Mastrodonato (2024). Emilio Salgari: The Tiger Is Still Alive! . University Press Copublishing Division. p. 2. ISBN 9781683934097 ^ Bettina Knapp, Maurice Maeterlinck , Boston: Thackery Publishers, 1975, p. 18.
^ Birkett, D. J. (3 January 2008). "Kingsley, Mary Henrietta". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/15620 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) ^ Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862 ^ Raper, Robert W. (1862). Gaisford Prize: Greek Iambics Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, July 2, MDCCCLXII
