1870 in literature

See also: 1869 in literature, other events of 1870, 1871 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*The Caged Lion - Charlotte Mary Yonge \n*The Eternal Husband - Fyodor Dostoevsky\n*Lothair - Benjamin Disraeli\n*Man and Wife - Wilkie Collins\n*The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens\n*An Old Fashioned Girl - Louisa May Alcott\n*Red as a rose is she - Rhoda Broughton \n*The Story of a Bad Boy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich\n*The Terrible Sights of London - Thomas Archer \n*20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne\n*The Vicar of Bullhampton - Anthony Trollope \n

Births

\n* March 5 - Frank Norris (d. 1902)\n* June 25 - Erskine Childers (d. 1922)\n* July 27 - Hilaire Belloc (d. 1953) \n* December 18 - Saki (d. 1916)

Deaths

\n* June 9 - Charles Dickens, British novelist\n* June 11 - William Gilmore Simms, author\n* July 20 - Jules de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt\n* November 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer\n* December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, père, author

Awards

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