1871 in literature

See also: 1870 in literature, other events of 1871, 1872 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 Adventures of Harry Richmond - George Meredith\n*The Coming Race - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton\n*The Descent of Man - Charles Darwin\n*Eye Openers - Mark Twain\n*Fenton's Quest - Mary Elizabeth Braddon\n*La Fortune des Rougon - Emile Zola\n*A Leaf on Vrony's Grave - Johanna Spyri\n*Little Men - Louisa May Alcott\n*Middlemarch - George Eliot\n*Screamers - Mark Twain\n*Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll\n*Watch and Ward - Henry James

Births

\n* March 27 - Heinrich Mann, narrator, dramatist and essayist (+ 1950)\n* June 17 - James Weldon Johnson (+ 1938)\n* July 10 - Marcel Proust (+ 1922) \n* August 27 - Theodore Dreiser (+ 1945) \n* September 27 - Grazia Deledda, (Italian) writer - Nobel prize winner, (1926)\n* November 1 - Stephen Crane (+ 1900)

Deaths

\n* March 17 - Robert Chambers, Scottish writer, publisher \n

Awards

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