1866 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1866.
Events
- January â Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment («ÐÑеÑÑÑплéние и наказáние», Prestupleniye i nakazaniye) is serialized through the year in the monthly literary magazine Russkiy Vestnik («РÑÑÑкÑй ÐÑ£ÑÑникÑ», The Russian Messenger).[1][2] His novella The Gambler («ÐгÑок», Igrok) is dictated to his future wife to meet a publisher deadline of November 1.[3]
- July â Anthony Trollope's novel Nina Balatka: The Story of a Maiden of Prague is initially published anonymously (serialisation in Blackwood's Magazine July 1866âJanuary 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.
- September 8 â London publisher Samuel Orchart Beeton is obliged by the financial panic of 1866 to settle all his debts by selling his property.[4] He sells his titles and name to Ward Lock & Co.
- November â The American magazine for children Children's Hour publishes its first issue.[5]
- unknown dates
- Ludwig Anzengruber returns to Vienna after working as a travelling actor.
- Charles Baudelaire's collection Les Ãpaves is published in Belgium, containing poems from Les Fleurs du mal (Paris, 1857) that were suppressed for outraging public morality.[6]
- Luigi Capuana becomes a theatre critic for the Italian newspaper The Nation.
- Josip JurÄiÄ has Deseti brat ("The Tenth Brother") published, as the first full-length novel in Slovene.
- Nandshankar Mehta publishes Karana Ghelo ("The Idiot King Karana"), the first novel in Gujarati.[7]
- 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.[8]
- Algernon Charles Swinburne's first collection Poems and Ballads causes a sensation on publication in London, especially the ones written in homage to Sappho and the sadomasochistic "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)". Under threat of prosecution, his original publisher, Moxon and Co., transfers publication rights to the more liberal John Camden Hotten.[9][10][11]
- The Stockholm Reading Parlor (Stockholms läsesalong) is co-founded by Sophie Adlersparre in Sweden; it becomes a free library for women to improve their access to education.[12]
- The first detective fiction by women authors is published: the dime novel The Dead Letter, an American Romance by "Seeley Regester" (Metta Victoria Fuller Victor) in New York City as the first full-length American work of crime fiction,[13] having begun to appear serially in the January Beadle's Monthly; Mary Fortune's story "The Dead Witness, or the Bush waterhole" is published in the Australian Journal on January 20.[14]
- Charles Dickens publishes "Mugby Junction" as a Christmas supplement to his magazine All the Year Round (London), containing short stories by himself (including "The Signal-Man") and by Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday and Hesba Stretton.
New books
Fiction
- Louisa May Alcott (as A. M. Barnard) â "Behind a Mask, or A Woman's Power" (novella published in The Flag of Our Union)
- R. D. Blackmore â Cradock Nowell
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay â Kapalkundala
- Wilkie Collins â Armadale (serialization completed and in book form)
- John Esten Cooke â Surry of Eagle's-Nest
- Alphonse Daudet â Letters From My Windmill (Lettres de mon moulin)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky â Crime and Punishment
- Alexandre Dumas, fils â L'Affaire Clemenceau
- George Eliot â Felix Holt, the Radical[15]
- Augusta Jane Evans â St. Elmo
- John William De Forest â Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty
- Ãmile Gaboriau â L'Affaire Lerouge
- Elizabeth Gaskell (died 1865) â Wives and Daughters (serialization completed and in book form)
- Victor Hugo â Toilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la mer)
- George MacDonald â Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
- John Neal â Little Moccasin, or Along the Madawaska: A Story of Life and Love in the Lumber Region[16]
- Mrs Oliphant â Miss Marjoribanks
- Ouida â Chandos
- Charles Reade â Griffith Gaunt
- Emmanuel Rhoides â Ἡ ΠάÏιÏÏα ἸÏάννα (I Papissa Ioanna, Pope Joan)
- Felicia Skene (anonymously) â Hidden Depths
- Anthony Trollope â Nina Balatka and "The Belton Estate"
- José Milla y Vidaurre â La Hija del Adelantado
Children
- Anna Harriett Drury â The Three Half-Crowns : a story for boys
- James Greenwood â The True History of a Little Ragamuffin
- Hesba Stretton â Jessica's First Prayer
Drama
- Dion Boucicault â Rip van Winkle or The Sleep of Twenty Years
- Alexandre Dumas, fils â Heloise Paranquet
- Henrik Ibsen â Brand
- T. W. Robertson â Ours
- Dobri Voynikov â Princess Rayna
Poetry
- Charles Baudelaire â Les Ãpaves
- Algernon Charles Swinburne â Poems and Ballads
- Paul Verlaine â Poèmes saturniens, including "Chanson d'automne"
Non-fiction
- Teodor Boldur-LÄÈescu â AdivÄrul adivÄrat (Truth and Nothing But)
- William Wells Brown â The Negro in the American Rebellion
- Edward Bruce Hamley â The Operations of War Explained and Illustrated
- Friedrich Albert Lange â 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)
- Edward A. Pollard â The Lost Cause
- John Robert Seeley (anonymously) â Ecce Homo: A Survey in the Life and Work of Jesus Christ[17]
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon â The Wordless Book
- Benjamin Thorpe assisted by Elise Otté (translator) â Edda Sæmundar Hinns Frôða: the Edda of Sæmund the Learned, from the old Norse or Icelandic
Births
- January 2 (December 21, 1865 OS) â Gheorghe Bogdan-DuicÄ (Gheorghe Bogdan), Romanian literary critic (died 1934)
- January 29 â Romain Rolland, French dramatist, novelist and Nobel Prize-winner (died 1944)
- February 9 â George Ade, American columnist and playwright (died 1944)
- February 24 â Arthur Pearson, English writer and newspaper publisher (died 1921)
- March 2
- John Gray, English poet (died 1934)
- Sibyl Marvin Huse, French-born American author and teacher (died 1939)
- March 7 â Walter Howard, English playwright (died 1922)
- March 16 â E. K. Chambers, English literary scholar (died 1954)
- May 2 â Paul Kretschmer, German linguist (died 1956)
- July 28 â Beatrix Potter, English children's writer and illustrator (died 1943)[18]
- August 12 â Jacinto Benavente, Spanish dramatist and Nobel Prize-winner (died 1954)
- August 16 â Dora Sigerson, Irish poet (died 1918)
- September 7 â Tristan Bernard, French writer (died 1947)
- August 31 â Elizabeth von Arnim, née Mary Annette Beauchamp, Australian-born novelist (died 1941)
- September 21 â H. G. Wells, English novelist and social commentator (died 1946)
- October 28 â Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Spanish dramatist and novelist (died 1936)
- November 4 â Jane Findlater, Scottish novelist (died 1946)
- November 21 â Dusé Mohamed Ali, Egyptian-born political activist, journalist and dramatist (died 1945)
- unknown date â Edith Escombe, English fiction writer and essayist (died 1950)
Deaths
- January 23 â Thomas Love Peacock, English satirical novelist (born 1785)
- February 2 â François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian historian and civil servant (born 1809)
- March 6 â William Whewell, English polymath and cleric (born 1794)
- March 29 â John Keble, English poet and cleric (born 1792)
- May 5 â John Critchley Prince, English poet (born 1808)
- June 16 â Joseph Méry, French satirist and librettist (born 1797)
- August 1 â Luigi Carlo Farini, Italian historian (born 1812)
- August 12 â Philip Stanhope Worsley, English poet and translator (born 1835)
- September 10 â Charles Maclaren, Scottish founding editor of The Scotsman (born 1782)
- September 14 â Léon Gozlan, French novelist and dramatist (born 1803)
- September 19 â Christian Hermann Weisse, German philosopher (born 1801)
- September 26 â Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish-born novelist (born 1793)
- October â Evan Bevan, Welsh writer of satirical verse (born 1803)
- December 20 â Ann Taylor, English poet and critic (born 1782)