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Overview of the events of 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 (Отцы и дети – old spelling Отцы и дѣти, Ottsy i dety , literally "Fathers and Children") is published by
Russkiy Vestnik in Moscow.
March 30 or 31 – The first two volumes of
Victor Hugo 's epic historical novel
Les Misérables appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by
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] Among those on the opposite side is the future journalist and explorer
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 begins serialization in
Cornhill Magazine , the first time she has published a full-length book in this format.
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 and is published in 1865 as
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland .
[7]
Illustration from the cover of
Christina Rossetti 's
Goblin Market and Other Poems , by her brother
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[1931 in literature|1931])
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 )
[13]
August 21 –
Emilio Salgari , Italian adventure novelist (suicide
1911 )
August 29 –
Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian poet and playwright (died
1949 )
[14]
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 )
[15]
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 )
[16]
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 . Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 59–.
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 .
^ 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)
^ Bettina Knapp, Maurice Maeterlinck , Boston: Thackery Publishers, 1975, p. 18.
^ Birkett, D. J. (3 January 2008). "Kingsley, Mary Henrietta".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
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 . New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1863. p. 694.
^ Raper, Robert W. (1862).
Gaisford Prize: Greek Iambics Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, July 2, MDCCCLXII Oxford: T. and G. Shrimpton, online at books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-08-14.