1872 in literature
See also: 1871 in literature,
other events of 1872,
1873 in literature,
list of years in literature.
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Events
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\n*At His Gates - Margaret Oliphant\n*Beauty and The Beast, and Tales of Home - Bayard Taylor \n*Création et Rédemption - Alexandre Dumas, père\n*Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky\n*Erewhon - Samuel Butler\n*The Dark Diamonds - Mór Jókai\n*The Gold Man - Mór Jókai \n*The Golden Lion of Granpere - Anthony Trollope\n*Good-bye, sweetheart - Rhoda Broughton\n*In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu \n*The Maid of Sker - Richard Doddridge Blackmore\n*The Parisians - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton\n*Poor Miss Finch - Wilkie Collins\n*Poor Pretty Bobby - Rhoda Broughton\n*The Runaway - Elizabeth Anna Hart\n*Tartarin de Tarascon - Alphonse Daudet\n*To the Bitter End - Mary Elizabeth Braddon\n*Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy
Births
\n* January 31 - Zane Grey (+ 1939)\n* May 31 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist/illustrator (+ 1944) \n* June 27 - Paul Laurence Dunbar (+ 1906)\n* August 24 - Max Beerbohm (+ 1956)
Deaths
\n* June 1 - Charles Lever, novelist \n* December 23 - Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist
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