1869 in literature

See also: 1868 in literature, other events of 1869, 1870 in literature, list of years in literature. \n

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

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New Books

\n*Alone in London - Hesba Stretton\n*The Chaplet of Pearls - Charlotte Mary Yonge\n*Culture and Anarchy -- Matthew Arnold\n*Erling the Bold - RM Ballantyne\n*Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott\n*L'Homme Qui Rit - Victor Hugo\n*The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain\n*Leaves from Australian Forests (poetry) - Henry Kendall \n*Lorna Doone - Richard Doddridge Blackmore\n*Luck and Pluck - Horatio Alger, Jr\n*Madame Gervaisais - Edmond de Goncourt & Jules de Goncourt\n*Monsieur Lecocq - Emile Gaboriau\n*Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope\n*Romain Kalbris - Hector Malot\n*A Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert\n*Struggles and Triumphs - P. T. Barnum\n*War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy \n*The Wyvern Mystery - Sheridan Le Fanu \n

Births

\n* March 14 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (+ 1951)\n* July 29 - Booth Tarkington (+ 1946) \n* August 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar (+ 1943)\n* November 22 - André Gide, author (+ 1951)\n* December 30 - Stephen Leacock

Deaths

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Awards

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