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Events
thumb|350px|Luke Fildes – The Empty Chair (engraving). Fildes, the illustrator for Edwin Drood at the time of Charles Dickens's death, shows Dickens's empty chair in his study at Gads Hill Place. It appears in the Christmas edition of The Graphic and thousands of prints of it are sold.Luke Fildes http://www.thefamousartists.com/luke-fildes TheFamousArtists.com
January 19 – Ivan Turgenev attends and writes about the public execution by guillotine of the spree killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann outside the gates of La Roquette Prisons in Paris.William Craft Brumfield Brumfield William С. 2014 Invitation to a Beheading: Turgenev and Troppmann Informatsionnyi gumanitarnyi portal "Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie" http://zpu-journal.ru/e-zpu/2014/6/Brumfield_Turgenev-and-Troppmann/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150402144843/http://zpu-journal.ru/e-zpu/2014/6/Brumfield_Turgenev-and-Troppmann/ 2015-04-02 2015-03-17 6 dead.
March 7 – Thomas Hardy meets his first wife, Emma Gifford, in Cornwall.http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JgiffordEH.htm Spartacus Educational Emma Gifford 2013-07-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20130802043115/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JgiffordEH.htm 2013-08-02 usurped
March 28 – Serialisation of Kenward Philp's The Bowery Detective in The Fireside Companion (New York) begins, the first known story to include the word detective in the title.
April–September – The serialisation of Charles Dickens' last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, is left unfinished on his death on June 9 at Gads Hill Place in Kent, from a stroke, aged 58.Obituary, The Times (London), August 1870.
May – Karl May begins a second four-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds, at Waldheim, Saxony.Sonderheft der Karl-May-Gesellschaft https://books.google.com/books?id=LA8tAQAAIAAJ 1972 Karl-May-Gesellschaft 129
Spring – Serial publication begins of Aleksis Kivi's only novel Seitsemän veljestä ("Seven Brothers"), the first notable novel in the Finnish language.Aleksis Kivi: Seitsemän veljestä https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/mutku/opiskelu/materiaalit/klassikot/materiaalit/kirjallisuus%20kivi Jyväskylän yliopisto 21 August 2020 11 August 2024 June 2026 InternetArchiveBot
August 24/25 – Libraries of the University of Strasbourg and the City of Strasbourg at Temple Neuf are destroyed by fire during the Siege of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War, resulting in the loss of 3,446 medieval manuscripts, including the original 12th-century Hortus deliciarum compiled by Herrad of Landsberg, the Apologist codex containing the only text of the early Epistle to Diognetus, and rare Renaissance books.History of the BNU Strasbourg BNU (Bibliothèque nationale universitaire) https://www.bnu.fr/node/631 2014-01-21
September 17 – The first performance of Alexander Pushkin's play Boris Godunov (1825) is given at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg by members of the Alexandrinsky Theatre.
c. September 20 – Friedrich Engels moves permanently to London from Manchester.Outstanding Dates The Life and Work of Karl Marx http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/bio/marx/lifeandwork.htm#1870 2013-07-23
December 18 – The Russian literary weekly Niva («Ни́ва», "Cornfield") is first published by Adolf Marks in Saint Petersburg.Jeffrey Brooks When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917 Northwestern University Press 2003 111 0-8101-1897-1
unknown date – Construction of the David Sassoon Library in Bombay, India, is completed.Govinda Nārāyaṇa Māḍagã̄vakara Govind Narayan's Mumbai: An Urban Biography from 1863 https://books.google.com/books?id=50Hmdwd_bigC&pg=PA366 2009 Anthem Press 978-1-84331-305-2 366
New books
Fiction
William Harrison Ainsworth - Talbot Harland
Thomas Bailey Aldrich – The Story of a Bad Boy
Thomas Archer – The Terrible Sights of London
Rhoda Broughton – Red as a Rose is She
Wilkie Collins – Man and Wife
Annie Denton Cridge - Man's Rights; Or, How Would You Like It? Comprising Dreams
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão – O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra pt (The Mystery of the Sintra Road)
Charles Dickens – The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Benjamin Disraeli – Lothair
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Eternal Husband («Вечный муж», Vechny muzh)
Edward Jenkins – Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes
Mór Jókai – Fekete gyémántok (Black Diamonds, i. e. coal)
Aleksis Kivi – Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers)
Jonas Lie – Den Fremsynte (The Visionary or Pictures From Nordland)
George Meredith – The Adventures of Harry Richmond (begins serial publication)
William Morris – The Earthly Paradise
Charles Reade - Put Yourself in His PlacePut Yourself in His Place 1905
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch – Venus in Furs (Venus im Pelz)
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin – The History of a Town («История одного города», Istoriya odnogo goroda)
Bayard Taylor – Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania
Anthony Trollope – The Vicar of BullhamptonR. H. Super The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope University of Michigan Press 1988 256–57
Ivan Turgenev – Stepnoy korol Lir (Степной король Лир); novella, English translation: King Lear of the Steppes'
Jules Verne – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Charlotte M. Yonge – The Caged Lion
Children and young people
John Neal — Great Mysteries and Little Plagues Sears Donald A. John Neal Twayne Publishers Boston, Massachusetts 1978 080-5-7723-08 120
Drama
James Albery – Two Roses
Ludwig Anzengruber (as L. Gruber) – Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld (The Priest of Kirchfeld)
Henry James Byron – Uncle Dick's Darling
Pietro Cossa – Nero
Lydia Koidula
Maret ja Miina (or Kosjakased; The Betrothal Birches)
Saaremaa Onupoeg (The Cousin from Saaremaa)
Lord Newry – Ecarte
George Sand and Sarah Bernhardt – L'Autre
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy – Tsar Boris («Царь Борис», published)
Poetry
1870 in poetry
thumb|right|Lear's illustration of The Owl and the Pussycat from Nonsense Songs
Bret Harte – The Heathen Chinee
Edward Lear – Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (dated 1871),Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm including "The Owl and the Pussycat"
Giovanni Marradi – Canzone moderne
Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Poems, including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life"
Non-fiction
J. E. Austen-Leigh – A Memoir of Jane Austen
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1st edition)
Richard William Church – Life of St. Anselm
Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Army Life in a Black Regiment
Hargrave Jennings – The Rosicrucians, their Rites and Mysteries
Henry Maudsley – Body and Mind
Dadabhai Naoroji – The Wants and Means of India
William Robinson – The Wild Garden
Charles Dudley Warner - My Summer in a Garden and Calvin, A Study of Character
Births
January 3 – Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson), Australian novelist (died 1946)
February 16 – Henric Streitman, Romanian essayist and journalist (died 1950)Arghezi Tudor Tudor Arghezi 75 de ani Bilete de Papagal 46 1945 1
March 5 – Frank Norris, American novelist (died 1902)
April 7 – Gustav Landauer, German philosopher and revolutionary (murdered 1919)
June 25 – Erskine Childers, Irish novelist (executed 1922)
July 27 – Hilaire Belloc, French-born English writer, poet and satirist (died 1953)
October 18 – Petre P. Negulescu, Romanian philosopher (died 1951)
October 22 (October 10 OS) – Ivan Bunin, Russian-born writer, recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1953)
October 29 – Gerald Duckworth, English publisher (died 1937)
December 17 – Ioan A. Bassarabescu, Romanian short story writer and politician (died 1952)
December 18 – Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), English short story writer and dramatist (killed in action 1916)Ignatius Frederick Clarke The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come https://books.google.com/books?id=m_lxehsNWoIC&pg=PA438 1997 Liverpool University Press 978-0-85323-642-9 438
Deaths
January 21 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (born 1812)
February 25 – Henrik Hertz, Danish poet (born 1797)
April 16 – Rallou Karatza, Greek Wallachian translator and theatrical promoter (born 1799)
April 24 – Louisa Stuart Costello, Irish writer on history and travel (born 1799)
June 9 – Charles Dickens, English novelist (born 1812)Dickens, Charles
June 11 – William Gilmore Simms, American poet, novelist and historian (born 1806)
June 24 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet (born 1833) Harris Max The unknown great Australian and other psychobiographical portraits Sun Books Melbourne 1983 9780725104245 45
July 19 – Benjamin Thorpe, scholar of Old English (born 1782)
July 20 – Jules de Goncourt, French novelist and critic (syphilis, born 1830)Pages from the Goncourt Journals (2006). NYRB Classics. 159017190X.
July 24 – Anders Abraham Grafström, Swedish poet and historian (born 1790)
July 30 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian journalist and poet (born 1818)Vinje-Sanger https://snl.no/Vinje-Sanger Store norske leksikon Norwegian
September 12 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author and explorer (born 1836)Page:The Biographical Dictionary of America, vol. 07.djvu/75 The Biographical Dictionary of America 7 75 Rossiter Johnson 1906 Boston American Biographical Society
September 23 – Prosper Mérimée, French writer (b. 1803)Encyclopaedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Prosper-Merimee Prosper Mérimée
November 4 – Comte de Lautreamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse), French poet and writer (born 1846)Bachelard, Gaston (1986). "Lautréamont". Dallas Institute.
December 5 – Alexandre Dumas, père, French novelist (born 1802)Douglas Munro Alexandre Dumas Père: A Bibliography of Works Translated Into English to 1910 https://books.google.com/books?id=W2JHAQAAIAAJ 1978 Garland Pub. 978-0-8240-9836-0 242
References
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External links
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