1869 in literature - Definition and Overview

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

Events

New Books

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

Births

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

Deaths

Awards