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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1862.
Events
February – Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons (Отцы и дети – old spelling Отцы и дѣти, ru Ottsy i dety, literally "Fathers and Children") is published by Russkiy Vestnik in Moscow.
March 30 or 31 – The first two volumes of Victor Hugo's epic historical novel Les Misérables appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October.
April 6 – Two months after joining the staff of General William Babcock Hazen, Ambrose Bierce joins in the Battle of Shiloh, later the subject of a memoir.Cozzens Peter April 1996 The Tormenting Flame: What Ambrose Bierce Saw in a Fire-Swept Thicket at Shiloh Haunted Him for the rest of his Life Civil War Times Illustrated XXXV 1 44–54 Among those on the opposite side is the future journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who will also record his experiences.Shiloh 1862 – the death of innocence Arnold James 1998 London Osprey Publishing 978-1-85532-606-4 32
April 28 – Thomas Hardy becomes an assistant to architect Arthur Blomfield.F. B. Pinion Thomas Hardy: His Life and Friends https://books.google.com/books?id=BBqxCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59 1994-06-07 Palgrave Macmillan UK 978-1-349-13594-3 59–
June – Nikolai Chernyshevsky is imprisoned in Saint Petersburg and begins his novel What Is To Be Done?John Simpkin http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSchernyshevsky.htm Spartacus Educational Nikolai Chernyshevsky 1997–2013 2014-03-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20140106040741/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSchernyshevsky.htm 2014-01-06 usurped
June 4 – Henry Morton Stanley, now a "Galvanized Yankee", joins the Union Army; he is discharged 18 days later because of illness.Gallop Alan 2004 Mr Stanley, I presume – the life and explorations of Henry Morton Stanley Stroud Sutton 978-0750930932 61
July – George Eliot's historical novel Romola begins serialization in Cornhill Magazine, the first time she has published a full-length book in this format. George Murray Smith of the publishers Smith, Elder & Co. has agreed a £7,000 advance for it.Spittles Brian George Eliot: Godless Woman Basingstoke; London Macmillan Press 1993 0-333-57218-1
July 1 – Moscow's first free public library opens as The Library of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumiantsev Museum, predecessor of the Russian State Library.
July 4 – Charles Dodgson (better known as by his later pseudonym Lewis Carroll) extemporises a story for 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a rowing trip on The Isis from Oxford to Godstow. The story becomes a manuscript titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground and is published in 1865 as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Richard Cavendish The Alice in Wonderland story first told History Today 62 7 http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/alice-wonderland-story-first-told July 2012 2016-05-01
thumb|Illustration from the cover of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems, by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti
September 23 – Leo Tolstoy marries Sophia (Sonya) Andreevna Behrs, 16 years his junior, in Moscow, having given her a diary detailing his previous sexual relations.
November 26 – Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell.Mark J. Davies Alice in Waterland: Lewis Carroll and the River Thames in Oxford Oxford Signal Books 2010 978-1904955726
November 29 – Serialization of The Notting Hill Mystery by "Charles Felix" (probably Charles Warren Adams) commences in Once A Week (London), with illustrations by George du Maurier; it is seen as the first full-length detective novel in English.Paul Collins Before Hercule or Sherlock, There Was Ralph The New York Times Book Review 2011-01-07Julian Symons Julian Symons Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel London Faber and Faber 1972 978-0-571-09465-3 There is no doubt that the first detective novel, preceding Collins and Gaboriau, was The Notting Hill Mystery. 51
December – Louisa May Alcott becomes a nurse at the Union hospital in Georgetown
December 24 – William Dean Howells marries Elinor Mead at the American Embassy in Paris.
Uncertain dates
James Russell Lowell begins writing for The North American Review.
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs begins writing about homosexuality under the pseudonym of "Numa Numantius".
New books
Fiction
William Harrison Ainsworth – The Lord Mayor of London
José de Alencar – Lucíola
Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Lady Audley's Secret
Camilo Castelo Branco – Amor de Perdição
Edward Bulwer-Lytton – A Strange Story
Wilkie Collins – No Name
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The House of the Dead (‹Записки из Мёртвого дома›, Zapiski iz Myortvogo doma, book publication)
George Eliot – Romola (serialization)
Gustave Flaubert – Salammbo
Eugène Fromentin – Dominique
The Goncourt brothers (Edmond and Jules de Goncourt) – Sister Philomene (Sœur Philomène)
Victor Hugo – Les Misérables
Henry Kingsley – Ravenshoe
George MacDonald – David Elginbrod
Watts Phillips – The Honour of the Family
Fritz Reuter – From My Farming Days
John Skelton – Thalatta, or the Great Commoner
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard – The Morgesons
William Makepeace Thackeray – The Adventures of Philip
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy – Prince Serebrenni (‹Князь Серебряный›)
Anthony Trollope
Orley Farm (publication completed)
The Small House at Allington (serialization begins)
Ivan Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
Mrs. Henry Wood – The Channings
Children and young people
Frances Freeling Broderip – Tale of the Toys, Told by Themselves
Catherine Crowe – The Adventures of a Monkey
F. W. Farrar – St. Winifred's or The World of School
Henrietta Keddie (as Sarah Tytler) – Papers for Thoughtful Girls, with illustrative sketches of some girls' lives
Charlotte Yonge
Countess Kate
The Stokesley Secret
Drama
Émile Augier – Le Fils de Giboyer
María Bibiana Benítez – La Cruz del Morro (The Cross of El Morro)
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson – Sigurd Slembe (Sigurd the Bastard, trilogy, published)
Henrik Ibsen – Love's Comedy (Kjærlighedens Komedie, first published)
Watts Phillips – His Last Victory
Edmund Yates – Invitations
Poetry
Pavlo Chubynsky – "Shche ne vmerla Ukraina" (Ukraine's glory has not perished, later the text of the Ukrainian national anthem)
Henrik Ibsen – Terje Vigen
George Meredith – Modern Love
Christina Rossetti – Goblin Market and other poems
Non-fiction
John Hill Burton – The Book-Hunter
Thomas De Quincey – Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets
John William Draper – The History of the Intellectual Development of Europe
Theodor Fontane – Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg, volume 1, Die Grafschaft Ruppin
Julia Kavanagh
English Women of Letters
French Women of Letters
George Perkins Marsh – The Origin and History of the English Language
John Ruskin – Unto This Last
Elizabeth Missing Sewell – Impressions of Rome, Florence, and Turin
John Skelton – Nugæ Criticæ
Samuel Smiles – Lives of the Engineers (5 volumes)
Leo Tolstoy – "The School at Yasnaya Polyana"
Births
January 24 – Edith Wharton, American novelist (died 1937)Dictionary of World Biography. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers 1999 3953 9781579580483
February 17 – Mori Ōgai (森 鷗外), Japanese army surgeon, poet, translator and realist fiction writer (died 1922)
April 11 – Lurana W. Sheldon, American author and newspaper editor (died 1945)October 2022
May 1 – Marcel Prévost, French dramatist (died 1941)
May 9 – Hugh Stowell Scott (Henry Seton Merriman), English novelist (died 1903)
May 15 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist and novelist (died 1931)
June 6 – Henry Newbolt, English poet (died 1938)
June 18 – Carolyn Wells, American novelist and poet (died 1942)Carolyn Wells American writer https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolyn-Wells Encyclopedia Britannica 22 January 2020 en
July 16 – Ida B. Wells, American journalist and novelist (died 1931)http://faculty.webster.edu/woolflm/idabwells.html Ida B. Wells: Crusade for Justice McBride Jennifer 1998 Webster University online January 30, 2013 June 2, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230602213202/http://faculty.webster.edu/woolflm/idabwells.html dead
August 1 – Montague Rhodes James, English scholar and short story writer (died 1936)
August 2 – Paul Bujor, Romanian politician, zoologist and short story writer (died 1952)
August 6 – Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, English historian (died 1932)P. D. Proctor, (1949), pages 225–227 in "The Dictionary of National Biography 1931–1940", edited by L. G. Wickham Legg, London: Oxford University Press, 968 pages (hardcover)
August 21 – Emilio Salgari, Italian adventure novelist (died 1911)Paola Irene Galli Mastrodonato Emilio Salgari: The Tiger Is Still Alive! University Press Copublishing Division 2024 9781683934097 2
August 29 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright (died 1949)Bettina Knapp, Maurice Maeterlinck, Boston: Thackery Publishers, 1975, p. 18.
September 2 – Okakura Kakuzō (岡倉 覚三), Japanese writer on the arts (died 1913)
September 27 – Francis Adams, Anglo-Australian poet, novelist and dramatist (died 1893)
October 13 – Mary Kingsley, English travel writer (died 1900)Kingsley, Mary Henrietta 15620 D. J. Birkett 3 January 2008
November 15 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, novelist and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1946)
December 8 – Georges Feydeau, French farceur (died 1921)
December 16 – John Fox, Jr., American novelist and journalist (died 1919)
December 23 – Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (died 1935)
date unknown — Jessie King, Scottish essayist, poet, journalist (year of death unknown)
Deaths
January 11 – Jean Philibert Damiron, French philosopher (born 1794)
February 24 – Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Danish novelist and poet (born 1789)
February 27 (February 16 O.S.) – Constantin Sion, Moldavian polemicist, genealogist and literary forger (born 1795)
April 6 – Fitz James O'Brien, Irish-American science fiction pioneer (born 1828)
May 6 – Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher (born 1817)
May 25 – Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist (born 1801)
August 27 – Thomas Jefferson Hogg, English biographer (born 1792)
November 26 – Julia Pardoe, English novelist and historian (born 1806)
November 30 – James Sheridan Knowles, Irish dramatist and actor (born 1784)
December 17 – Katherine Thomson, writing as Grace Wharton, English novelist and historian (born 1797)Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862 1863 D. Appleton & Company New York 694 https://archive.org/stream/1862appletonsan02newyuoft#page/n701/mode/1up
Awards
Gaisford Prize – Robert William Raper (Trinity) for comic iambic verse: Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II, Act 4, Sc. 3Raper, Robert W. (1862). Gaisford Prize: Greek Iambics Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, July 2, MDCCCLXII Oxford: T. and G. Shrimpton, online at books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
Newdigate Prize – Arthur C. Auchmuty, "Julian the Apostate"
References
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External links
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