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Overview of the events of 1866 in literature
Overview of the events of 1866 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1866 .
Events
January –
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's novel
Crime and Punishment («Преступлéние и наказáние», Prestupleniye i nakazaniye ) is serialized through the year in the monthly literary magazine
Russkiy Vestnik («Русскій Вѣстникъ», The Russian Messenger ).
[1]
[2] His novella
The Gambler («Игрок», Igrok ) is dictated to his future wife to meet a publisher deadline of November 1.
[3]
July –
Anthony Trollope 's novel Nina Balatka: The Story of a Maiden of Prague is initially published anonymously (serialisation in
Blackwood's Magazine July 1866–January 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 – 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 – 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 Épaves 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 Jurčič 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
Children
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 2 (December 21, 1865
OS ) –
Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică (Gheorghe Bogdan), Romanian literary critic (died
1934 )
January 29 –
Romain Rolland , French dramatist, novelist and Nobel Prize-winner (died
1944 )
February 9 –
George Ade , American columnist and playwright (died
1944 )
February 24 –
Arthur Pearson , English writer and newspaper publisher (died
1921 )
March 2
March 16 –
E. K. Chambers , English literary scholar (died
1954 )
May 2 –
Paul Kretschmer , German linguist (died
1956 )
July 28 –
Beatrix Potter , English children's writer and illustrator (died
1943 )
[18]
August 12 –
Jacinto Benavente , Spanish dramatist and Nobel Prize-winner (died
1954 )
August 16 –
Dora Sigerson , Irish poet (died
1918 )
September 7 –
Tristan Bernard , French writer (died
1947 )
August 31 –
Elizabeth von Arnim , née Mary Annette Beauchamp, Australian-born novelist (died
1941 )
September 21 –
H. G. Wells , English novelist and social commentator (died
1946 )
October 28 –
Ramón del Valle-Inclán , Spanish dramatist and novelist (died
1936 )
November 4 –
Jane Findlater , Scottish novelist (died 1946)
November 21 –
Dusé Mohamed Ali , Egyptian-born political activist, journalist and dramatist (died
1945 )
unknown date –
Edith Escombe , English fiction writer and essayist (died
1950 )
Deaths
January 23 –
Thomas Love Peacock , English satirical novelist (born
1785 )
February 2 –
François-Xavier Garneau , French Canadian historian and civil servant (born
1809 )
March 6 –
William Whewell , English polymath and cleric (born
1794 )
March 29 –
John Keble , English poet and cleric (born
1792 )
May 5 –
John Critchley Prince , English poet (born
1808 )
June 16 –
Joseph Méry , French satirist and librettist (born
1797 )
August 1 –
Luigi Carlo Farini , Italian historian (born
1812 )
August 12 –
Philip Stanhope Worsley , English poet and translator (born
1835 )
September 10 –
Charles Maclaren , Scottish founding editor of
The Scotsman (born
1782 )
September 14 –
Léon Gozlan , French novelist and dramatist (born
1803 )
September 19 –
Christian Hermann Weisse , German philosopher (born
1801 )
September 26 –
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist , Swedish-born novelist (born
1793 )
October –
Evan Bevan , Welsh writer of satirical verse (born
1803 )
December 20 –
Ann Taylor , English poet and critic (born
1782 )
Awards
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