1870 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1870.
Events
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- January 19 â Ivan Turgenev attends and writes about the public execution by guillotine of the spree killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann outside the gates of La Roquette Prisons in Paris.[2]
- March 7 â Thomas Hardy meets his first wife, Emma Gifford, in Cornwall.[3]
- March 28 â Serialisation of Kenward Philp's The Bowery Detective in The Fireside Companion (New York) begins, the first known story to include the word detective in the title.
- AprilâSeptember â The serialisation of Charles Dickens' last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, is left unfinished on his death on June 9 at Gads Hill Place in Kent, from a stroke, aged 58.[4]
- May â Karl May begins a second four-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds, at Waldheim, Saxony.[5]
- Spring â Serial publication begins of Aleksis Kivi's only novel Seitsemän veljestä ("Seven Brothers"), the first notable novel in the Finnish language.[6]
- August 24/25 â Libraries of the University of Strasbourg and the City of Strasbourg at Temple Neuf are destroyed by fire during the Siege of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War, resulting in the loss of 3,446 medieval manuscripts, including the original 12th-century Hortus deliciarum compiled by Herrad of Landsberg, the Apologist codex containing the only text of the early Epistle to Diognetus, and rare Renaissance books.[7]
- September 17 â The first performance of Alexander Pushkin's play Boris Godunov (1825) is given at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg by members of the Alexandrinsky Theatre.
- c. September 20 â Friedrich Engels moves permanently to London from Manchester.[8]
- December 18 â The Russian literary weekly Niva («ÐиÌва», "Cornfield") is first published by Adolf Marks in Saint Petersburg.[9]
- unknown date â Construction of the David Sassoon Library in Bombay, India, is completed.[10]
New books
Fiction
- William Harrison Ainsworth - Talbot Harland
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich â The Story of a Bad Boy
- Thomas Archer â The Terrible Sights of London
- Rhoda Broughton â Red as a Rose is She
- Wilkie Collins â Man and Wife
- Annie Denton Cridge - Man's Rights; Or, How Would You Like It? Comprising Dreams
- José Maria de Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão â O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra (The Mystery of the Sintra Road)
- Charles Dickens â The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Benjamin Disraeli â Lothair
- Fyodor Dostoevsky â The Eternal Husband («ÐеÑнÑй мÑж», Vechny muzh)
- Edward Jenkins â Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes
- Mór Jókai â Fekete gyémántok (Black Diamonds, i. e. coal)
- Aleksis Kivi â Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers)
- Jonas Lie â Den Fremsynte (The Visionary or Pictures From Nordland)
- George Meredith â The Adventures of Harry Richmond (begins serial publication)
- William Morris â The Earthly Paradise
- Charles Reade - Put Yourself in His Place[11]
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch â Venus in Furs (Venus im Pelz)
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin â The History of a Town («ÐÑÑоÑÐ¸Ñ Ð¾Ð´Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ гоÑода», Istoriya odnogo goroda)
- Bayard Taylor â Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania
- Anthony Trollope â The Vicar of Bullhampton[12]
- Ivan Turgenev â Stepnoy korol Lir (СÑепной коÑÐ¾Ð»Ñ ÐиÑ); novella, English translation: King Lear of the Steppes'
- Jules Verne â Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
- Charlotte M. Yonge â The Caged Lion
Children and young people
Drama
- James Albery â Two Roses
- Ludwig Anzengruber (as L. Gruber) â Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld (The Priest of Kirchfeld)
- Henry James Byron â Uncle Dick's Darling
- Pietro Cossa â Nero
- Lydia Koidula
- Maret ja Miina (or Kosjakased; The Betrothal Birches)
- Saaremaa Onupoeg (The Cousin from Saaremaa)
- Lord Newry â Ecarte
- George Sand and Sarah Bernhardt â L'Autre
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy â Tsar Boris («ЦаÑÑ ÐоÑиÑ», published)
Poetry
- Bret Harte â The Heathen Chinee
- Edward Lear â Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (dated 1871),[14] including "The Owl and the Pussycat"
- Giovanni Marradi â Canzone moderne
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti â Poems,[14] including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life"
Non-fiction
- J. E. Austen-Leigh â A Memoir of Jane Austen
- Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1st edition)
- Richard William Church â Life of St. Anselm
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Army Life in a Black Regiment
- Hargrave Jennings â The Rosicrucians, their Rites and Mysteries
- Henry Maudsley â Body and Mind
- Dadabhai Naoroji â The Wants and Means of India
- William Robinson â The Wild Garden
- Charles Dudley Warner - My Summer in a Garden and Calvin, A Study of Character
Births
- January 3 â Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson), Australian novelist (died 1946)
- February 16 â Henric Streitman, Romanian essayist and journalist (died 1950)[15]
- March 5 â Frank Norris, American novelist (died 1902)
- April 7 â Gustav Landauer, German philosopher and revolutionary (murdered 1919)
- June 25 â Erskine Childers, Irish novelist (executed 1922)
- July 27 â Hilaire Belloc, French-born English writer, poet and satirist (died 1953)
- October 18 â Petre P. Negulescu, Romanian philosopher (died 1951)
- October 22 (October 10 OS) â Ivan Bunin, Russian-born writer, recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1953)
- October 29 â Gerald Duckworth, English publisher (died 1937)
- December 17 â Ioan A. Bassarabescu, Romanian short story writer and politician (died 1952)
- December 18 â Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), English short story writer and dramatist (killed in action 1916)[16]
Deaths
- January 21 â Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (born 1812)
- February 25 â Henrik Hertz, Danish poet (born 1797)
- April 16 â Rallou Karatza, Greek Wallachian translator and theatrical promoter (born 1799)
- April 24 â Louisa Stuart Costello, Irish writer on history and travel (born 1799)
- June 9 â Charles Dickens, English novelist (born 1812)[17]
- June 11 â William Gilmore Simms, American poet, novelist and historian (born 1806)
- June 24 â Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet (born 1833)[18]
- July 19 â Benjamin Thorpe, scholar of Old English (born c.â1782)
- July 20 â Jules de Goncourt, French novelist and critic (syphilis, born 1830)[19]
- July 24 â Anders Abraham Grafström, Swedish poet and historian (born 1790)
- July 30 â Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian journalist and poet (born 1818)[20]
- September 12 â Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author and explorer (born 1836)[21]
- September 23 â Prosper Mérimée, French writer (b. 1803)[22]
- November 4 â Comte de Lautreamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse), French poet and writer (born 1846)[23]
- December 5 â Alexandre Dumas, père, French novelist (born 1802)[24]
