1864 In Literature

EVENTS

Ambrose Bierce is wounded at the Battle Of Kennesaw Mountain .

Charles Baudelaire leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties.

Henrik Ibsen leaves Norway for Italy in a self-imposed exile that will last for 27 years.

A debate at the Royal Geographical Society between Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke fails to take place, owing to Speke's suicide (or accidental shooting).

Alexandre Dumas, Fils marries Nadeja Naryschkine. His Alexandre Dumas, Père , returns to Paris from Italy.

John Addington Symonds the younger marries Janet Catherine North.

James Payn publishes his most popular story, ''Lost Sir Massingberd'', in ''Chambers's Journal''.

NEW BOOKS

'' Brother Jacob '' - George Eliot

'' Chevalier Destouches '' - Jules Amédée Barbey D'Aurevilly

'' Clara Vaughan '' - Richard Doddridge Blackmore

'''' - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

'' Journey To The Center Of The Earth '' - Jules Verne

''Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave from Kentucky''

'' Notes From The Underground '' - Fyodor Dostoevsky

'' Renée Mauperin '' - Edmond De Goncourt & Jules De Goncourt

'' Uncle Silas '' - Sheridan Le Fanu

'' Wives And Daughters '' - Elizabeth Gaskell

'' The Wylder's Hand '' - Sheridan Le Fanu

POETRY

Robert Browning - ''Dramatis Personae''

Alfred Tennyson - '' Enoch Arden ''

Alfred De Vigny - ''Les Destinées'' (posthumously published)

NON-FICTION

American Dictionary Of The English Language (Webster's) , revised edition

John Henry Cardinal Newman - '' Apologia Pro Vita Sua ''

John Ruskin - ''Cestus of Aglaia''

BIRTHS

January 24 - Marguerite Durand , French actress, journalist, and feminist leader (d. 1936 )

February 14 - Israel Zangwill , novelist and playwright, (d. 1926 )

April 21 - Max Weber , sociologist

July 20 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt , Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931 )

October 14 - Stefan Żeromski , novelist, poet and dramatist

November 11 - Alfred Hermann Fried , pacifist writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1921 )

December 12 - Paul Elmer More , critic and essayist (d. 1937 )

DEATHS

January 29 - Lucy Aikin , historian

February 2 - Adelaide Anne Procter , poet

March 16 - Robert Smith Surtees , novelist and sports writer

May 19 - Nathaniel Hawthorne , novelist

May 20 - John Clare , poet

May 26 - Charles Sealsfield , novelist

July 4 - Thomas Colley Grattan , novelist

August 7 - Janez Puhar , poet

September - Antônio Gonçalves Dias , poet (lost at sea)

September 17 - Walter Savage Landor , poet

''date unknown'' - Anton Felix Schindler , biographer of Beethoven

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