1862 In Literature

EVENTS

February - Ambrose Bierce joins the staff of General William Babcock Hazen

November 26 - Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll ) sends the handwritten manuscript of '' Alice's Adventures Underground '' to 10-year-old Alice Liddell .

Louisa May Alcott becomes a nurse at the Union hospital in Georgetown, D.C. .

December 24 - William Dean Howells marries Elinor Mead at the American embassy in Paris.

James Russell Lowell begins writing for ''The North American Review''.

Nikolai Chernyshevsky is imprisoned in St Petersburg and begins his novel ''What Is To Be Done?''

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs begins writing about homosexuality under the pseudonym of "Numa Numantius".

NEW BOOKS

'' David Elginbrod '' - George MacDonald

'' Dominique '' - Eugène Fromentin

'' Fathers And Sons '' - Ivan Turgenev

'' The House Of The Dead '' - Fyodor Dostoevsky

'' Lady Audley's Secret '' - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

'' Les Misérables '' - Victor Hugo

'' No Name '' - Wilkie Collins

'' Ravenshoe '' - Henry Kingsley

'' Salammbo '' - Gustave Flaubert

'' Sister Philomene '' - Edmond & Jules De Goncourt

NEW DRAMA

Émile Augier - ''Le Fils de Giboyer''

POETRY

Pavlo Chubynsky - '' Ukraine's Glory Has Not Perished '' (later the Ukrainian national anthem

George Meredith - '' Modern Love ''

Christina Rossetti - '' Goblin Market and other poems''

NON-FICTION

Julia Kavanagh - ''French Women of Letters''

John Ruskin - ''Unto This Last''

BIRTHS

January 24 - Edith Wharton (+ 1937 )

May 1 - Marcel Prévost , dramatist (+ 1941 )

May 15 - Arthur Schnitzler , dramatist and novelist (+ 1931 )

June 6 - Sir Henry Newbolt , poet (+ 1938 )

August 6 - Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson , historian (+ 1932 )

August 29 - Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian poet, playwright (+ 1949 )

September 27 - Francis Adams , poet, novelist, essayist and dramatist (+ 1893 )

October 13 - Mary Kingsley , travel writer (+ 1900)

December 8 - Georges Feydeau , French playwright (+ 1921 )

December 16 - John Fox, Jr. , American novelist and journalist (+ 1919 )

December 23 - Henri Pirenne , historian (+ 1935 )

DEATHS

January 11 - Jean Philibert Damiron , philosopher

February 24 - Bernhard Severin Ingemann , novelist and poet

April 6 - Fitz James O'Brien , science fiction pioneer

May 6 - Henry David Thoreau

May 25 - Johann Nestroy , dramatist

November 26 - Julia Pardoe , novelist and historian

November 30 - James Sheridan Knowles , dramatist and actor

''date unknown'' - Charlotte Barton , children's author

''date unknown'' - Thomas Jefferson Hogg , biographer

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