Overview of the events of 1869 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1869 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 10 – Rachel Davis Harris , African American librarian (died 1969 )January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański , Polish dramatist, poet, painter and architect (died 1907 )February 8 – Victor Ido , born Hans van de Wall, Dutch East Indian journalist, novelist and playwright (died 1948 )February 11 – Else Lasker-Schüler , German-born poet, playwright and short story writer (died 1945 )March 11
March 14 – Algernon Blackwood , English writer (died 1951 )[ 23] May 10 – Rachel Davis Harris , African American librarian (died 1969 )May 23 – Olivia Ward Bush-Banks , American poet (died 1944 )June 10 – Arthur Shearly Cripps , English-born poet, short story writer and Anglican priest in Africa (died 1952 )July 1 – William Strunk, Jr. , American professor of English (died 1946 )July 8 – William Vaughn Moody , American dramatist and poet (died 1910 )July 29 – Booth Tarkington , American novelist (died 1946 )August 10 – Laurence Binyon , English poet and dramatist (died 1943 )[ 24] September 6 – Felix Salten , Austrian author and critic (died 1945 )[ 25] October 6 – Bo Bergman , Swedish poet (died 1967 )[ 26] November 15 – Charlotte Mew , English poet (died 1928 )[ 27] November 20 – Zinaida Gippius , Russian writer (died 1945 )November 22 – André Gide , French writer (died 1951 )[ 28] December 22 – Edwin Arlington Robinson , American poet (died 1935 )[ 29] December 30 – Stephen Leacock , English-born Canadian humorist and economist (died 1944 )
Deaths
January 20 – Carl Wilhelm Göttling , German classical commentator (born 1793 )[ 30] January 28 – Sophie Bolander , Swedish writer (born 1807 )[ 31] January 30
February 15 – Ghalib , Indian poet (born 1796 )February 28 – Alphonse de Lamartine , French poet and politician (born 1790 )[ 32] March 31 – David Rees (Y Cynhyrfwr) , Nonconformist leader and author (born 1801 )[ 33] May 16 – Giovanni Peruzzini , Italian poet, opera librettist, and translator of German literature (born 1815 )[ 34] May 18 – Peter Cunningham , British literary scholar and antiquarian (born 1816 )July 7 – Paul Botten-Hansen , Norwegian librarian, book collector, magazine editor and literary critic (born 1824 )[ 35] July 11 – William Jerdan , Scottish-born editor (born 1782 )July 15 – Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker , German publisher (born 1781 )July 19 – Victor Aimé Huber , German travel writer and literary historian (born 1800 )July 22 – Julius Braun , German historian (born 1825 )August 2 – Thomas Medwin , English poet, biographer and translator (born 1788 )September 12 – Peter Mark Roget , British lexicographer (born 1779 )October – John Jones (Talhaiarn) , poet (born 1810 )[ 36]
October 13 – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve , French literary critic (b. 1804 )[ 37] October 18 – Simon Jenko , Slovene poet (born 1835 )[citation needed November 3 – Andreas Kalvos , Greek Romantic poet and dramatist (born 1792 )November 12 – Gheorghe Asachi , Moldavian polymath (born 1788 )[ 38]
Notes
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Second ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198715542
References
^ Mark Twain (28 July 1992). Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869 ISBN 978-0-520-90608-2 ^ Super, R. H. (1990). The chronicler of Barsetshire : a life of Anthony Trollope . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 241. ISBN 9780472081394 ^ Bierce, Ambrose. "The Town Crier," San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser , 14 Aug. 1869, p. 11; reprinted in The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary , David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi , eds.; Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000, pp. xv-xvi.
^ Trager, James. The New York Chronology: The Ultimate Compendium of Events, People, and Anecdotes from the Dutch to the Present . p. 154. ^ Jeremy Cooper (1998). Victorian and Edwardian Decor: From the Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau ISBN 978-0-7892-0446-2 ^ Martin, R. Eden (July 2012). "The Original War and Peace" (PDF) . Caxtonian . 20 (7). Caxton Club: 1– 5. Retrieved 2015-10-21 . ^ Aldrich, Thomas (1990). The story of a bad boy . Hanover, NH: University of New Hampshire Press. ISBN 9780874517941 ^ "Reseña: Clemencia de Ignacio Manuel Altamirano" [Summary: Clemencia by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano]. Compartiendo grafias (in Spanish). Retrieved June 1, 2019 .^ Hahn 2015, p. 15
^ Cooper, Robert (1998). The literary guide & companion to southern England . Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. p. 306. ISBN 9780821412251 ^ Morson, Gary Saul (2009). "Return to Process: The Unfolding of The Idiot" . New Literary History . 40 (4): 843– 865. doi :10.1353/nlh.0.0114 . JSTOR 40666450 . Retrieved 3 January 2021 . ^ Schwab, Gail (1995). The French Revolution of 1789 and its impact . Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 159. ISBN 9780313293399 ^ R. Bonnoit (1985). Émile Gaboriau ou la Naissance du Roman Policier . Librairie Philosophique J Vrin. p. 150. ^ Bosi, Alfredo (2018). História concisa da literatura brasileira (in Portuguese). São Paulo: Editora Cultrix. p. 130. ISBN 9788531601897 ^ Malot, Hector (1992). Romain Kalbris . Paris: Hachette jeunesse. ISBN 9782010195655 ^ John, Juliet (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture ISBN 978-0-19-959373-6 ^ Hahn 2015, pp. 12-13
^ Hahn 2015, p. 95
^ Hahn 2015, p. 190
^ Hahn 2015, p. 301
^ Arnold, Matthew (1993). Culture and anarchy and other writings . Cambridge New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. p. vi. ISBN 9780521377966 ^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal . Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 145. ISBN 080-5-7723-08 ^ "Blackwood, Algernon Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/31913 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) ^ Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Binyon, Laurence" Encyclopædia Britannica ^ McColl, Sandra (1996). Music criticism in Vienna, 1896-1897: critically moving forms . Oxford New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press. p. 27. ISBN 9780198165644 ^ World Biography . Institute for Research in Biography. 1954. p. 91.^ Warner, Val, ed. Collected Poems and Selected Prose of Charlotte Mews . New York: Routledge, 2003, p. ix.
^ Sheridan, Alan (1999). André Gide: a life in the present . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 7. ISBN 9780674035270 ^ Smith, Danny D. "Biography of Edwin Arlington Robinson" . A Virtual Tour of Robinson's Gardiner, Maine . Gardiner Public Library. Archived from the original on October 2, 2012. Retrieved December 4, 2021 . ^ Gilman, D. C. ; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Göttling, Karl Wilhelm" New International Encyclopedia ^ "Sophie C M Bolander - Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon" . sok.riksarkivet.se (in Swedish). Retrieved January 30, 2019 .^ Carruth, Gorton (1993). The Encyclopedia of World Facts and Dates . New York: HarperCollins. p. 492. ISBN 9780062700124 ^ John Dyfnallt Owen (1959). "Rees, David (1801-1869), Congregational minister, and editor" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales . Retrieved 4 December 2021 . ^ John Black (2002). "Peruzzini, Giovanni". Grove Music Online . Oxford University Press . doi :10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O005160 . ^ "Paul Botten-Hansen 1824–1869" . selhistorie.no. Retrieved March 1, 2018 .^ David Gwenallt Jones (1959). "Jones, John (Talhaiarn; 1810-1869), architect and poet" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales . Retrieved 4 December 2021 . ^ LastName, FirstName (1990). Gateway to the Great Books : Ten-volume Set . Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. p. 62. ISBN 9781593392215 ^ (in Romanian) Cărăbuș, Gheorghe Gabriel. "Asachi – un separatist avant la lettre" (PDF) . p. 198. Retrieved 15 September 2024 .
