Editing 1872 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1872'''.

==Events==
[[Image:Carmilla.jpg|thumb|320px|Illustration to ''[[Carmilla]]'' by [[D. H. Friston]] (''[[The Dark Blue]]'', 1872)]]
*March
**The Federation of [[Madrid]] expels [[Paul Lafargue]] and all other signatories to an ostensibly subversive article in ''La Emancipación''.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Leslie Derfler|title=Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism, 1842-1882|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L_E_OR6owEEC&pg=PA134|year=1991|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-65903-2|pages=134}}</ref>
**Serialisation of [[Sheridan Le Fanu]]'s [[Gothic fiction|Gothic]] [[Vampire fiction|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.<ref>{{Cite book |authorlink=Nina Auerbach |last=Auerbach |first=Nina |title=Our Vampires, Ourselves |url=https://archive.org/details/ourvampiresourse00auer |url-access=registration |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1995 |isbn=0-2260-3202-7}}</ref>
*[[June 15]] – [[Thomas Hardy]]'s second novel (and the first set in [[Thomas Hardy's Wessex|Wessex]]), ''[[Under the Greenwood Tree]]'', is published in London (as "by the author of ''Desperate Remedies''").
*[[June 19]] – The [[Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire]] is founded in [[Strasbourg]] as the ''Kaiserliche Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek zu Straßburg'', 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]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of the BNU |location=Strasbourg |publisher=BNU (Bibliothèque nationale universitaire) |url=http://www.bnu.fr/node/631 |access-date=2014-01-21}}</ref>
*July – [[Rose la Touche]] rejects a proposal from [[John Ruskin]] for the last time.<ref>{{Cite book|author1=David B. Elliott|author2=Charles Fairfax Murray|title=Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O5NPAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Oak Knoll Press|isbn=978-1-58456-030-2|page=41}}</ref>
*[[July 7]] – [[Paul Verlaine]] abandons his family for [[London]] with [[Arthur Rimbaud]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Lewino |first1=Frédéric |last2=Dos Santos |first2=Gwendoline |date=2016-07-07 |title=C'est arrivé aujourd'hui. 7 juillet 1872. Verlaine abandonne le domicile conjugal pour rejoindre Rimbaud. Entre sa jeune épouse malade et son amant démoniaque, le cœur du poète ne balance pas longtemps|newspaper=Le Point |location=Paris |language=French|url=http://www.lepoint.fr/c-est-arrive-aujourd-hui/7-juillet-1872-ce-salaud-de-verlaine-abandonne-son-epouse-malade-pour-s-enfuir-avec-rimbaud-06-07-2012-1482294_494.php}}</ref>
*[[September 13]] ([[Old Style and New Style dates|O. S.]]: September 1) – Romanian poet [[Mihai Eminescu]] first attends the literary club ''[[Junimea]]'' of [[Iași]] and reads out his fantasy story ''[[Poor Dionis]] (Sărmanul Dionis)''. It is poorly received by the ''Junimists''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lovinescu |first=Eugen |authorlink=Eugen Lovinescu |title=T. Maiorescu și contemporanii lui, I. V. Alecsandri, M. Eminescu, A. D. Xenopol |publisher=Casa Școalelor |location=Bucharest |year=1943 |pages=25–28, 148–152 |oclc=935314935}}</ref>
*[[September 30]] – [[George MacDonald]] arrives in [[Boston]] for a lecture tour of the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=USA Lecture Tour |url=http://georgemacdonald.info/lecture_tour.html |work=The George MacDonald Informational Web |year=2007 |access-date=2014-12-18}}</ref>
*November (approximate date) – [[Lafcadio Hearn]] becomes a reporter on the ''[[Cincinnati Daily Enquirer]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Ye Giglampz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XyYoAQAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Crossroads Books with the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County|page=66}}</ref>
*[[December 3]] – Assyriologist [[George Smith (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]] – [[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 (Paris)|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 (academic discipline)|American Literature]] is held at [[Princeton University]] by [[John Seely Hart]].<ref>{{Cite book |author=Kermit Vanderbilt |title=American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZE5MevhJL78C&pg=PA85 |date=February 1989 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=0-8122-1291-6 |pages=85}}</ref>
**The [[Scottish Gaelic]] magazine ''[[Féillire]]'' first appears as ''Almanac Gàilig air son 1872'' in [[Inverness]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ferguson |first1=Mary |first2=Ann |last2=Matheson |title=Scottish Gaelic Union Catalogue |url=https://archive.org/details/scottishgaelicun0000ferg |url-access=registration |publisher=[[National Library of Scotland]] |location=Edinburgh |year=1984 |isbn=0902220608}}</ref>

==New books==
===Fiction===
* [[William Harrison Ainsworth]] – ''[[Boscobel (novel)|Boscobel]]''
*[[Machado de Assis]] – ''[[Ressurreição]]''
*[[Mary Elizabeth Braddon]] – ''To the Bitter End''
*[[Rhoda Broughton]]
**''Good-bye, Sweetheart!''
**''Poor Pretty Bobby''
*[[Samuel Butler (1835-1902)|Samuel Butler]] – ''[[Erewhon]]''
*[[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]] – ''The Parisians''
*[[Wilkie Collins]] – ''[[Poor Miss Finch]]''
*[[Annie Hall Cudlip]] – ''A Passion in Tatters''
*[[Alphonse Daudet]] – ''[[Tartarin de Tarascon]]''
*[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] – ''[[Demons (Dostoyevsky novel)|Demons]]'' (Бесы, ''Bésy'')
*[[Alexandre Dumas, père]] – ''Création et rédemption''
*[[George Eliot]] – ''[[Middlemarch]]'' (serial publication concluded)
*[[Mihai Eminescu]] – ''[[Poor Dionis]]'' (''Sărmanul Dionis'')
*[[Thomas Hardy]] – ''[[Under the Greenwood Tree]]''
*[[Mór Jókai]]
**''Eppur si muove – És 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]] – ''[[The Cathedral Folk]]'' (Соборяне, ''Soboryane'')
*[[Eliza Lynn Linton]] – ''The True History of Joshua Davidson, Christian and Communist''
*[[Margaret Oliphant]] – ''At His Gates''
*[[Bayard Taylor]] – ''Beauty and The Beast, and Tales of Home''
*[[Anthony Trollope]] – ''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)''
*[[Émile Zola]] – ''[[La Curée]]''

===Children and young adults===
*[[R. D. Blackmore]] – ''[[The Maid of Sker]]''
*[[Frances Freeling Broderip]] – ''Tiny Tadpoles, and Other Tales''
*[[Lewis Carroll]] – [[Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There]]
*[[Juliana Horatia Ewing]] – ''[[A Flat Iron for a Farthing]]''
*[[George MacDonald]] – ''[[The Princess and the Goblin]]''
*[[E. J. Richmond]] – ''[[The Jewelled Serpent]]''
*[[Sarah Chauncey Woolsey|Susan Coolidge]] – ''[[What Katy Did]]'' (first in the ''What Katy Did'' series of five books)<ref>Read Series [http://www.readseries.com/auth-bc/coolbio.html Retrieved 2 September 2016.]</ref>
*[[Ouida]] – ''[[A Dog of Flanders]]''

===Drama===
*[[François Coppée]] – ''Les Bijoux de la Délivrance''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Plarr |first1=Victor |title=Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries |year=1895 |publisher=G. Routledge and Sons, limited |page=190 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OJ4YAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA190 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Franz Grillparzer]] – ''[[The Jewess of Toledo]]'' (''Die Jüdin von Toledo'', first performed posthumously, written [[1851 in literature|1851]])
*[[Prosper Mérimée]] – ''La Chambre bleue'' (published posthumously)
*[[August Strindberg]] – ''[[Master Olof]]''
*[[Ivan Turgenev]] – ''[[A Month in the Country (play)|A Month in the Country]]'' («Месяц в деревне», ''Mesiats v derevne'', first performed)<ref>Publications programme note for the [[Yvonne Arnaud Theatre]], Guildford revival (1994).</ref>

===Poetry===
*[[José Hernández (writer)|José Hernández]] '''Athénaïs Michelet'''  ''[[Martín Fierro]]'' (first part)<ref>{{cite book|author=Arturo Torres-Rioseco|title=New World Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3fmo4nEk3AIC&pg=PA88|year=1949|publisher=University of California Press|pages=88}}</ref>

===Non-fiction===
*[[William Henry Davenport Adams]], [[Hector Giacomelli]], [[Athénaïs Michelet]] – ''Nature; or the Poetry of Earth and Sea''
*''[[Chambers Dictionary|Chambers's English Dictionary]]''
*[[William Cullen Bryant]] – ''[[Picturesque America]]'', vol. 1<ref>{{cite book|author=William Cullen Bryant|title=Picturesque America: Or, The Land We Live in|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KKeN2zhsUNEC|year=1872|publisher=D. Appleton and Company}}</ref>
*[[John Evans (archaeologist)|John Evans]] – ''The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain''
*[[Warren Felt Evans]] – ''Mental Medicine''
*[[Sophia Jex-Blake]] – ''Medical Women: A Thesis and a History''
*[[Friedrich Nietzsche]] – ''[[The Birth of Tragedy]] (Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik)''
*[[Alexandru Papadopol-Calimah]] – ''Scrieri vechi perdute atingetóre de Dacia'' (Old Lost Writings Relating to Dacia; first installments)
*Charles Busbridge Snepp – ''Songs of Grace and Glory''
*[[Henry Wilson]] – ''[[History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America]]'', vols. 1 & 2

==Births==
*[[January 31]] – [[Zane Grey]], American Western novelist (died [[1956 in literature|1939]])
*[[March 31]] – [[Mary Lewis Langworthy]], American pageant writer (died [[1949 in literature|1949]])
*[[April 4]] 
**[[Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș]] – Romanian art historian, ethnographer and journalist (died [[1952 in literature|1952]])
**[[Frida Uhl]] – Austrian writer (died [[1943 in literature|1943]])
*[[May 2]] – [[Ichiyō Higuchi]], Japanese writer (died [[1896 in literature|1896]])<ref>{{cite book|first1=Melek|last1=Ortabasi|first2=Rebecca L.|last2=Copeland|title=The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2006|page=131|isbn=978-0-23113-775-1}}</ref>
*[[May 21]] (May 9 [[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) – [[Teffi]], born Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya, Russian-born humorist (died [[1952 in literature|1952]])
*[[May 31]] – [[W. Heath Robinson]], English cartoonist and illustrator (died [[1956 in literature|1944]])
*[[June 27]] – [[Paul Laurence Dunbar]], African American poet, novelist and playwright (died [[1956 in literature|1906]])
*[[August 24]] – [[Max Beerbohm]], English essayist and parodist (died [[1956 in literature|1956]])
*[[September 15]] – [[Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley|Frances Garnet Wolseley]], English horticulturist and garden writer (died [[1936 in literature|1936]])
*[[September 22]] – [[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott]], American fiction writer and poet (died [[1958 in literature|1958]])
*[[October 8]] – [[John Cowper Powys]], Anglo-Welsh novelist (died [[1963 in literature|1963]])
*[[October 10]] – [[Arthur Talmage Abernethy]], American theologian and poet (died [[1956 in literature|1956]])
*[[October 18]] (October 6 O.S.) – [[Mikhail Kuzmin]], Russian poet, novelist and composer (died [[1936 in literature|1936]])
*[[October 20]] – [[F. M. Mayor]], English novelist (died [[1932 in literature|1932]])
*[[November 23]] – [[Eraclie Sterian]], Romanian science writer and playwright (died [[1948 in literature|1948]])
*[[December 28]] – [[Pío Baroja]], Spanish novelist (died [[1956 in literature|1956]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ricardo Landeira|title=The Modern Spanish Novel, 1898-1936|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pI9dAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-6603-5|page=42}}</ref>

==Deaths==
[[File:Friedhof Hietzing Grabstein Franz Grillparzer 120505.jpg|thumb|[[Franz Grillparzer]]'s tomb]]
*[[January 21]] – [[Franz Grillparzer]], Austrian poet and dramatist (born [[1791 in literature|1791]])
*[[February 6]] – Sir [[Thomas Phillipps]], English book collector (born [[1792 in literature|1792]])
*[[March 4]] – [[Carsten Hauch]], Danish poet (born [[1790 in literature|1790]])
*[[March 10]] – [[Giuseppe Mazzini]], Italian philosopher, journalist and politician (born [[1805 in literature|1805]])
*[[March 11]] – [[Emily Taylor]], English author, poet and hymn writer (born [[1795 in literature|1795]])
*[[April 1]] – [[Frederick Denison Maurice]], English theologian (born [[1805 in literature|1805]])
*[[April 13]] – [[Samuel Bamford]], English essayist and poet (born [[1788 in literature|1788]])
*[[April 20]] – [[Ljudevit Gaj]], Croatian linguist and journalist (born [[1809 in literature|1809]])
*[[May 13]] – [[Moritz Hartmann]], German poet (born [[1821 in literature|1821]])
*[[May 29]] – [[Frank Key Howard]], American journalist and memoirist (born [[1826 in literature|1826]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Howard, F. K. (Frank Key), 1826-1872|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/n88071162|website=Library of Congress|access-date=July 9, 2014}}</ref>
*[[June 1]] – [[Charles Lever]], Irish novelist (born [[1806 in literature|1806]])
*[[July 25]] – [[Gregorio Gutiérrez González]], Colombian poet (born [[1826 in literature|1826]])
*[[August 8]] – [[Heinrich Abeken]], German theologian (born [[1809 in literature|1809]])
*[[September 11]] – [[Countess Dash]], French writer (born [[1804 in literature|1804]])
*[[September 18]] – [[Herbert Haines (archaeologist)|Herbert Haines]], English historian and Anglican theologian (born [[1826 in literature|1826]])
*[[September 22]] – [[Vladimir Dal]], Russian lexicographer (born [[1801 in literature|1801]])
*[[October 10]] – [[Fanny Fern]], American journalist, novelist and children's writer (born [[1811 in literature|1811]])
*[[October 21]] – [[Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné]], Swiss historian (born [[1794 in literature|1794]])
*[[November 16]] – [[William Gilham]], American military writer (born [[1818 in literature|1818]])
*[[December 23]] – [[Théophile Gautier]], French poet and novelist (born [[1811 in literature|1811]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Hugh Chisholm|author2=James Louis Garvin|title=The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information. 13th Ed.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ga1eiwzwRssC|year=1926|publisher=Enclycopædia Britannica Company Limited|page=537}}</ref>

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