Editing 1867 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1867'''.

==Events==
*By February – The first [[blue plaque]] is erected in London by the [[Royal Society of Arts|Society of Arts]] on the birthplace ([[1788 in literature|1788]]) of poet [[Lord Byron]] (later demolished).
*[[October 3]] – [[Anthony Trollope]] resigns from a senior administrative position in the British [[General Post Office]], to write full-time.
*November – The [[Leipzig]] publisher [[Reclam]] launches its ''Universal-Bibliothek'' series of cheap reprints with an edition of [[Goethe's Faust|Goethe's ''Faust'']] following the lifting of [[copyright]] restrictions in the new [[North German Confederation]] for authors dead for more than 30 years.<ref>{{Cite book |authorlink=Orlando Figes |first=Orlando |last=Figes |title=The Europeans |publisher=Allen Lane |location=[London] |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-241-00489-0 |pages=451–3}}</ref>
*[[December 2]] – [[Charles Dickens]] begins a U.S. reading tour in [[New York City]]. 
*December – After publication of [[Leo Tolstoy]]'s ''1805'', an early version of ''[[War and Peace]]'', concludes in ''[[The Russian Messenger]]'', an advertisement appears for the revised complete novel.<ref>{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Gunn|title=A Daring Coiffeur: Reflections on War and Peace and Anna Karenina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ixl8AAAAIAAJ|year=1971|publisher=Rowman and Littlefield|page=44}}</ref>
*''unknown dates''
**The première of [[Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy]]'s historical drama ''[[The Death of Ivan the Terrible]]'' ({{langx|ru|Смерть Иоанна Грозного|translit=Smert Ioa′nna Gro′znogo}}, written in 1863 and first published in 1866) is held at the [[Alexandrinsky Theatre]] in [[Saint Petersburg]], the first of a [[trilogy]].<ref>{{Cite book |first=А. К. |last=Толстой |title=Собрание сочинений в 4-х томах |location=Москва |publisher=Художественная литература |year=1964 |volume=2 |pages=668–673 |language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |editor=Moser, Charles A. |year=1992 |title=The Cambridge History of Russian Literature |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory00mose |url-access=limited |edition=Rev. |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-42567-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory00mose/page/n280 270]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |editor=Banham, Martin |year=1998 |title=The Cambridge Guide to Theatre |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-43437-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto0000banh/page/1115 1115] |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto0000banh/page/1115 }}</ref>
**[[Mrs. Henry Wood]] purchases and begins editing the U.K. fiction magazine ''[[Argosy (magazine)#UK Argosy|Argosy]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Michael |last=Flowers |title=Ellen Wood – A Biographical Sketch |url=http://www.mrshenrywood.co.uk/who.html |year=2006 |accessdate=2014-02-11}}</ref>
**Three American periodicals for children – ''Oliver Optic's Magazine'', ''Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly'', and the ''Riverside Magazine for Young People'' – are launched.

==New books==
===Fiction===
* [[William Harrison Ainsworth]] – ''[[Old Court (novel)|Old Court]]''
*[[Horatio Alger, Jr.]] – ''[[Ragged Dick|Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks]]'' (serialization in ''Student and Schoolmate'')
*[[Mary Elizabeth Braddon]] – ''Circe''
*[[Rhoda Broughton]]
**''[[Cometh Up as a Flower]]''<ref>{{Cite book |first=Q. D. |last=Leavis |authorlink=Q. D. Leavis |title=Fiction and the Reading Public |edition=2nd |location=London |publisher=Chatto & Windus |year=1965}}</ref>
**''Not Wisely, But Too Well''
*[[Charles Theodore Henri de Coster]] – ''[[The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak]] (La Légende et les aventures héroïques, joyeuses et glorieuses d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak au pays de Flandres et ailleurs)''
*[[John William De Forest]] – ''[[Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty]]''
*[[Anna Hanson Dorsey]] – ''Coaina: The Rose of the Algonquins''
*[[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]] – ''[[The Gambler (novel)|The Gambler]]'' («Игрок», ''Igrok'', novella)
*[[Augusta Jane Evans]] – ''St. Elmo''
*[[Émile Gaboriau]] – ''[[The Mystery of Orcival]] (Le Crime d'Orcival)''
*[[Goncourt brothers]] – ''Manette Salomon''
*[[Jorge Isaacs]] – ''[[María (novel)|María, A South American Romance]]''
*[[Ippolito Nievo]] – ''Le confessioni di un ottagenario'' (translated as ''The Castle of Fratta'')
*[[Caroline Norton]] – ''Old Sir Douglas'' (serialization concluded)
*[[Ouida]] – ''[[Under Two Flags (novel)|Under Two Flags]]''
*[[Anthony Trollope]]
**''[[The Last Chronicle of Barset]]'' (sixth of the ''[[Chronicles of Barsetshire]]''; serial publication concludes July 6; book publication in 2 vols, March–July)
**"[[The Claverings]]"
**''[[Phineas Finn]]'' (second of the [[Palliser novels]]; serialization begins in ''Saint Paul's Magazine'', October)
*[[Ivan Turgenev]] – ''[[Smoke (Turgenev novel)|Smoke]]'' («Дым», ''Dym'')
*[[Mark Twain]] – ''[[The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County]]'' (collected short stories

===Children and young people===
*[[Ada Cambridge]] – ''Little Jenny''
*[[George Manville Fenn]] – ''Hollowdell Grange''
*[[G. A. Henty]] – ''A Search for a Secret''
*[[Hesba Stretton]] – ''Jessica's First Prayer''

===Drama===
*[[Erckmann-Chatrian]] – ''Le Juif Polonais''
*[[W. S. Gilbert]] – ''[[Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren]]''
*[[Henrik Ibsen]] – ''[[Peer Gynt]]'' (first published)
*[[Navalram Pandya]] – ''Bhatnu Bhopalu''
*[[Thomas William Robertson]] – ''[[Caste (play)|Caste]]''

===Poetry===
*[[Matthew Arnold]] – ''New Poems'',<ref name=cocel>{{Cite book |editor=Cox, Michael |title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-19-860634-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm }}</ref> including "[[Dover Beach]]"
*[[William Morris]] – ''The Life and Death of Jason''<ref name=cocel/>
*[[Jan Neruda]] – ''Knihy veršů'' (Books of Verses)
*[[Piet Paaltjens]] (François Haverschmidt) – ''Snikken en grimlachjes: poëzie uit den studententijd'' ("Sobs and Bitter Grins: poetry of student days")
*[[Henry Timrod]] – "[[Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867]]"

===Non-fiction===
*[[Walter Bagehot]] – ''[[The English Constitution]]'' (in book form)
*[[Augusta Theodosia Drane]] – ''Christian Schools and Scholars''
*[[Edward Augustus Freeman]] – ''[[The History of the Norman Conquest of England]]'' (completed in six volumes in 1879)
*[[William Carew Hazlitt]] – ''Handbook to the Popular, Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain, from the Invention of Printing to the Restoration''
*[[Francis Marrash]] – ''Rihlat Baris''
*[[Karl Marx]] – ''[[Das Kapital]]''
*[[Henry Maudsley]] – ''The Physiology and Pathology of Mind''
*[[Marius Nygaard (academic)|Marius Nygaard]] – ''Kortfattet Fremstilling af det norske Landsmaals Grammatik'' (Brief introduction to Norwegian [[Landsmål]] Grammar)
*[[William Makepeace Thackeray]] – ''The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: a series of lectures''
*[[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin|William Thomson]] – ''[[Treatise on Natural Philosophy]]''

==Births==
*[[January 6]] – [[Robert Murray Gilchrist]] English author (died [[1917 in literature|1917]])
*[[January 18]] – [[Rubén Darío]], Nicaraguan poet (died [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[February 7]]  – [[Laura Ingalls Wilder]], American novelist (died [[1957 in literature|1957]])<ref>{{Cite book |title=Twentieth-century Children's Writers |date=1978 |publisher=Macmillan q Higher Education |isbn=978-1-349-03648-6 |page=1341 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_DBdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1341l |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=June 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*[[February 9]] – [[Natsume Sōseki]], Japanese novelist (died [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[February 18]] – [[Hedwig Courths-Mahler]] (Ernestine Friederike Elisabeth Mahler), German novelist (died [[1950 in literature|1950]])
*[[February 27]]  – [[George Diamandy]], Romanian journalist, dramatist and political figure (died [[1917 in literature|1917]])
*[[April 5]] – [[Frances Nimmo Greene]], American novelist, short story writer, children's writer, playwright (died [[1937 in literature|1937]])
*[[April 19]] – [[Zinaida Vengerova]], Russian literary critic and translator (died [[1941 in literature|1941]])
*[[May 1]] –  [[Harry Leon Wilson]], American author and playwright (died [[1939 in literature|1939]])
*[[May 7]] – [[Władysław Reymont]], Polish novelist, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (died [[1925 in literature|1925]])
*[[May 8]] – [[Margarete Böhme]], German novelist (died [[1939 in literature|1939]])
*[[May 27]] – [[Arnold Bennett]], English novelist (died [[1931 in literature|1931]])
*[[May 31]] – [[Ieremia Cecan]], Bessarabian journalist and Christian polemicist (shot [[1941 in literature|1941]])
*[[June 8]] – [[Dagny Juel]], Norwegian writer (murdered [[1901 in literature|1901]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Mary Kay Norseng|title=Dagny: Dagny Juel Przybyszewska, the Woman and the Myth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gifiCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37|date=24 August 2017|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-99814-5|pages=37}}</ref>
*[[June 28]] – [[Luigi Pirandello]], Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (died [[1936 in literature|1936]])
*[[August 9]] – [[Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall|H. E. Marshall]], Scottish history writer for children (died [[1941 in literature|1941]])
*[[August 23]] – [[Marcel Schwob]], French writer (died [[1905 in literature|1905]])
*[[September 25]] – [[Katharine Glasier]] (born Katharine Conway), English writer and socialist (died [[1950 in literature|1950]])
*[[October 2]] – [[Timrava]] (Božena Slančíková), Slovak novelist, short story writer and playwright (died [[1951 in literature|1951]])
*[[October 31]] – [[David Graham Phillips]], American journalist and novelist (died [[1911 in literature|1911]])
*[[November 1]] – [[Mulshankar Mulani]], Gujarati playwright (died [[1957 in literature|1957]])
*[[December 21]] – [[Margaret Cameron (author)|Margaret Cameron]], American novelist, humorist, playwright, non-fiction writer (died [[1947 in literature|1947]]).
*[[December 24]] – [[Tevfik Fikret]], Ottoman Turkish poet and journalist (died [[1915 in literature|1915]])
*[[December 25]] – [[Alfred Kerr|Alfred Kempner]], German-Jewish theatre critic (suicide [[1948 in literature|1948]])

==Deaths==
*[[February 5]] – [[Henry Crabb Robinson]], English man of letters and diarist (born [[1775 in literature|1775]])
*[[April 12]] – [[Robert Bell (writer)|Robert Bell]], British man of letters (born [[1800 in literature|1800]])
*[[May 27]] – [[Thomas Bulfinch]], American collector of myths and legends (born [[1796 in literature|1796]])
*[[July 31]] – [[Catharine Sedgwick]], American novelist (born [[1789 in literature|1789]])
*[[August 8]] – [[Sarah Austin (translator)|Sarah Austin]], English editor and translator (born [[1793 in literature|1793]])
*[[August 31]] – [[Charles Baudelaire]], French poet, critic and translator (stroke, born [[1821 in literature|1821]])
*[[October 7]] – [[Henry Timrod]], American poet (tuberculosis, born [[1829 in literature|1829]])
*[[October 29]] – [[Frederick Chamier]], English novelist and Royal Navy captain (born [[1796 in literature|1796]])
*[[November 19]] – [[Fitz-Greene Halleck]], American poet (born [[1790 in literature|1790]])
*''unknown date'' – [[Charlotte Barton]], Australian children's author (born [[1797 in literature|1797]])

==Awards==
*[[Newdigate Prize]] – [[Robert Campbell Moberly]]<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Marie-Antoinette-Newdigate-prize-poem/dp/B001752PSM Newdigate prize poem. Accessed 4 November 2012]</ref>

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