1872 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1872.
Events
- March
- The Federation of Madrid expels Paul Lafargue and all other signatories to an ostensibly subversive article in La Emancipación.[1]
- Serialisation of Sheridan Le Fanu's Gothic vampire novella Carmilla ends in the monthly The Dark Blue. Later this year it appears in his collection In a Glass Darkly. Set in the Duchy of Styria, it helps to introduce the lesbian vampire genre.[2]
- June 15 â Thomas Hardy's second novel (and the first set in Wessex), Under the Greenwood Tree, is published in London (as "by the author of Desperate Remedies").
- June 19 â The Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire is founded in Strasbourg as the Kaiserliche Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek zu StraÃburg, a public regional and academic library for the new German territory of Alsace-Lorraine (Reichsland Elsass-Lothringen) after destruction of its predecessors in the Siege of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War.[3]
- July â Rose la Touche rejects a proposal from John Ruskin for the last time.[4]
- July 7 â Paul Verlaine abandons his family for London with Arthur Rimbaud.[5]
- September 13 (O. S.: September 1) â Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu first attends the literary club Junimea of IaÈi and reads out his fantasy story Poor Dionis (SÄrmanul Dionis). It is poorly received by the Junimists.[6]
- September 30 â George MacDonald arrives in Boston for a lecture tour of the United States.[7]
- November (approximate date) â Lafcadio Hearn becomes a reporter on the Cincinnati Daily Enquirer.[8]
- December 3 â Assyriologist George Smith presents the first translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh to a meeting of the Society of Biblical Archaeology in London.
- December 22 â Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days (Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) finishes serialisation (since November 2) in the daily Le Temps, the day after the concluding date of the narrative.
- unknown dates
- Benito Pérez Galdós begins Trafalgar, the first in the series of historical novels known as Episodios Nacionales.
- The first university course in American Literature is held at Princeton University by John Seely Hart.[9]
- The Scottish Gaelic magazine Féillire first appears as Almanac Gà ilig air son 1872 in Inverness.[10]
New books
Fiction
- William Harrison Ainsworth â Boscobel
- Machado de Assis â Ressurreição
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon â To the Bitter End
- Rhoda Broughton
- Good-bye, Sweetheart!
- Poor Pretty Bobby
- Samuel Butler â Erewhon
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton â The Parisians
- Wilkie Collins â Poor Miss Finch
- Annie Hall Cudlip â A Passion in Tatters
- Alphonse Daudet â Tartarin de Tarascon
- Fyodor Dostoevsky â Demons (ÐеÑÑ, Bésy)
- Alexandre Dumas, père â Création et rédemption
- George Eliot â Middlemarch (serial publication concluded)
- Mihai Eminescu â Poor Dionis (SÄrmanul Dionis)
- Thomas Hardy â Under the Greenwood Tree
- Mór Jókai
- Eppur si muove â Ãs mégis mozog a Föld (And yet the Earth moves)
- The Man with the Golden Touch (Az arany ember)
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- In a Glass Darkly
- Willing to Die
- Nikolai Leskov â The Cathedral Folk (СобоÑÑне, Soboryane)
- Eliza Lynn Linton â The True History of Joshua Davidson, Christian and Communist
- Margaret Oliphant â At His Gates
- Bayard Taylor â Beauty and The Beast, and Tales of Home
- Anthony Trollope â The Golden Lion of Granpere
- Jules Verne
- The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais dans l'Afrique australe)
- "Dr. Ox's Experiment"
- The Fur Country (Le Pays des fourrures)
- Ãmile Zola â La Curée
Children and young adults
- R. D. Blackmore â The Maid of Sker
- Frances Freeling Broderip â Tiny Tadpoles, and Other Tales
- Lewis Carroll â Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
- Juliana Horatia Ewing â A Flat Iron for a Farthing
- George MacDonald â The Princess and the Goblin
- E. J. Richmond â The Jewelled Serpent
- Susan Coolidge â What Katy Did (first in the What Katy Did series of five books)[11]
- Ouida â A Dog of Flanders
Drama
- François Coppée â Les Bijoux de la Délivrance[12]
- Franz Grillparzer â The Jewess of Toledo (Die Jüdin von Toledo, first performed posthumously, written 1851)
- Prosper Mérimée â La Chambre bleue (published posthumously)
- August Strindberg â Master Olof
- Ivan Turgenev â A Month in the Country («ÐеÑÑÑ Ð² деÑевне», Mesiats v derevne, first performed)[13]
Poetry
- José Hernández Athénaïs Michelet MartÃn Fierro (first part)[14]
Non-fiction
- William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli, Athénaïs Michelet â Nature; or the Poetry of Earth and Sea
- Chambers's English Dictionary
- William Cullen Bryant â Picturesque America, vol. 1[15]
- John Evans â The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain
- Warren Felt Evans â Mental Medicine
- Sophia Jex-Blake â Medical Women: A Thesis and a History
- Friedrich Nietzsche â The Birth of Tragedy (Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik)
- Alexandru Papadopol-Calimah â Scrieri vechi perdute atingetóre de Dacia (Old Lost Writings Relating to Dacia; first installments)
- Charles Busbridge Snepp â Songs of Grace and Glory
- Mark Twain â "Roughing It"
- Henry Wilson â History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, vols. 1 & 2
Births
- January 31 â Zane Grey, American Western novelist (died 1939)
- March 31 â Mary Lewis Langworthy, American pageant writer (died 1949)
- April 4
- Alexandru Tzigara-SamurcaÈ â Romanian art historian, ethnographer and journalist (died 1952)
- Frida Uhl â Austrian writer (died 1943)
- May 2 â IchiyÅ Higuchi, Japanese writer (died 1896)[16]
- May 21 (May 9 O.S.) â Teffi, born Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya, Russian-born humorist (died 1952)
- May 31 â W. Heath Robinson, English cartoonist and illustrator (died 1944)
- June 27 â Paul Laurence Dunbar, African American poet, novelist and playwright (died 1906)
- August 24 â Max Beerbohm, English essayist and parodist (died 1956)
- September 15 â Frances Garnet Wolseley, English horticulturist and garden writer (died 1936)
- September 22 â Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, American fiction writer and poet (died 1958)
- October 8 â John Cowper Powys, Anglo-Welsh novelist (died 1963)
- October 10 â Arthur Talmage Abernethy, American theologian and poet (died 1956)
- October 18 (October 6 O.S.) â Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet, novelist and composer (died 1936)
- October 20 â F. M. Mayor, English novelist (died 1932)
- November 23 â Eraclie Sterian, Romanian science writer and playwright (died 1948)
- December 28 â PÃo Baroja, Spanish novelist (died 1956)[17]
Deaths
- January 21 â Franz Grillparzer, Austrian poet and dramatist (born 1791)
- February 6 â Sir Thomas Phillipps, English book collector (born 1792)
- March 4 â Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (born 1790)
- March 10 â Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian philosopher, journalist and politician (born 1805)
- March 11 â Emily Taylor, English author, poet and hymn writer (born 1795)
- April 1 â Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian (born 1805)
- April 13 â Samuel Bamford, English essayist and poet (born 1788)
- April 20 â Ljudevit Gaj, Croatian linguist and journalist (born 1809)
- May 13 â Moritz Hartmann, German poet (born 1821)
- May 29 â Frank Key Howard, American journalist and memoirist (born 1826)[18]
- June 1 â Charles Lever, Irish novelist (born 1806)
- July 25 â Gregorio Gutiérrez González, Colombian poet (born 1826)
- August 8 â Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (born 1809)
- September 11 â Countess Dash, French writer (born 1804)
- September 18 â Herbert Haines, English historian and Anglican theologian (born 1826)
- September 22 â Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (born 1801)
- October 10 â Fanny Fern, American journalist, novelist and children's writer (born 1811)
- October 21 â Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, Swiss historian (born 1794)
- November 16 â William Gilham, American military writer (born 1818)
- December 23 â Théophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (born 1811)[19]