1872 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1872.
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young adults
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- January 31 – Zane Grey, American Western novelist (died 1939)
- March 31 – Mary Lewis Langworthy, American pageant writer (died 1949)
- May 2 – Ichiyō Higuchi, Japanese writer (died 1896)[16]
- May 21 (May 9 O.S.) – Teffi, born Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya, Russian-born humorist (died 1952)
- May 31 – W. Heath Robinson, English cartoonist and illustrator (died 1944)
- June 27 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, African American poet, novelist and playwright (died 1906)
- August 24 – Max Beerbohm, English essayist and parodist (died 1956)
- September 15 – Frances Garnet Wolseley, English horticulturist and garden writer (died 1936)
- September 22 – Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, American fiction writer and poet (died 1958)
- October 8 – John Cowper Powys, Anglo-Welsh novelist (died 1963)
- October 10 – Arthur Talmage Abernethy, American theologian and poet (died 1956)
- October 18 (October 6 O.S.) – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet, novelist and composer (died 1936)
- October 20 – F. M. Mayor, English novelist (died 1932)
- November 23 – Eraclie Sterian, Romanian science writer and playwright (died 1948)
- December 28 – Pío Baroja, Spanish novelist (died 1956)[17]
Deaths
- January 21 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian poet and dramatist (born 1791)
- February 6 – Sir Thomas Phillipps, English book collector (born 1792)
- March 4 – Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (born 1790)
- March 10 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian philosopher, journalist and politician (born 1805)
- March 11 – Emily Taylor, English author, poet and hymn writer (born 1795)
- April 1 – Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian (born 1805)
- April 13 – Samuel Bamford, English essayist and poet (born 1788)
- April 20 – Ljudevit Gaj, Croatian linguist and journalist (born 1809)
- May 13 – Moritz Hartmann, German poet (born 1821)
- May 29 – Frank Key Howard, American journalist and memoirist (born 1826)[18]
- June 1 – Charles Lever, Irish novelist (born 1806)
- July 25 – Gregorio Gutiérrez González, Colombian poet (born 1826)
- August 8 – Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (born 1809)
- September 11 – Countess Dash, French writer (born 1804)
- September 18 – Herbert Haines, English historian and Anglican theologian (born 1826)
- September 22 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (born 1801)
- October 10 – Fanny Fern, American journalist, novelist and children's writer (born 1811)
- October 21 – Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, Swiss historian (born 1794)
- November 16 – William Gilham, American military writer (born 1818)
- December 23 – Théophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (born 1811)[19]
Notes and References
- Book: Leslie Derfler. Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism, 1842-1882. 1991. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-65903-2. 134.
- Book: Auerbach, Nina . Nina Auerbach
. Nina Auerbach . Our Vampires, Ourselves . registration . University of Chicago Press . 1995 . 0-2260-3202-7.
- Web site: History of the BNU . Strasbourg . BNU (Bibliothèque nationale universitaire) . 2014-01-21.
- Book: David B. Elliott. Charles Fairfax Murray. Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite. 2000. Oak Knoll Press. 978-1-58456-030-2. 41.
- News: Lewino . Frédéric . Dos Santos . Gwendoline . 2016-07-07 . C'est arrivé aujourd'hui. 7 juillet 1872. Verlaine abandonne le domicile conjugal pour rejoindre Rimbaud. Entre sa jeune épouse malade et son amant démoniaque, le cœur du poète ne balance pas longtemps. Le Point . Paris . French.
- Book: Lovinescu, Eugen . Eugen Lovinescu
. Eugen Lovinescu . T. Maiorescu și contemporanii lui, I. V. Alecsandri, M. Eminescu, A. D. Xenopol . Casa Școalelor . Bucharest . 1943 . 25–28, 148–152 . 935314935.
- Web site: USA Lecture Tour . The George MacDonald Informational Web . 2007 . 2014-12-18.
- Book: Ye Giglampz. 1983. Crossroads Books with the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. 66.
- Book: Kermit Vanderbilt . American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession . February 1989 . University of Pennsylvania Press . 0-8122-1291-6 . 85.
- Book: Ferguson . Mary . Ann . Matheson . Scottish Gaelic Union Catalogue . registration . . Edinburgh . 1984 . 0902220608.
- Read Series Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- Book: Plarr . Victor . Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries . 1895 . G. Routledge and Sons, limited . 190 . en.
- Publications programme note for the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford revival (1994).
- Book: Arturo Torres-Rioseco. New World Literature. 1949. University of California Press. 88.
- Book: William Cullen Bryant. Picturesque America: Or, The Land We Live in. 1872. D. Appleton and Company.
- Book: Melek. Ortabasi. Rebecca L.. Copeland. The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan. New York. Columbia University Press. 2006. 131. 978-0-23113-775-1.
- Book: Ricardo Landeira. The Modern Spanish Novel, 1898-1936. 1985. Twayne Publishers. 978-0-8057-6603-5. 42.
- Web site: Howard, F. K. (Frank Key), 1826-1872. Library of Congress. July 9, 2014.
- Book: Hugh Chisholm. James Louis Garvin. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information. 13th Ed.. 1926. Enclycopædia Britannica Company Limited. 537.