1863 in literature

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## Events

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* January 1 – The essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorates today's Emancipation Proclamation in the United States by composing "Boston Hymn" and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with a debut reading of it at Boston Music Hall.
* January 31 – Jules Verne's novel Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (Cinq semaines en ballon) is published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in Paris. It will be the first of Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires.
* February 3 – Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in signing a humorous letter to the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada, first uses the pen name Mark Twain.
* February 28 – Flaubert and Turgenev meet for the first time, in Paris.[1]
* June 12 – The Arts Club is founded by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Frederic Leighton and others in London's Mayfair, as a social meeting place for those involved or interested in the creative arts.
* June 13 – Samuel Butler's dystopian article "Darwin among the Machines" is published (as by "Cellarius") in The Press newspaper in Christchurch, New Zealand; it will be incorporated into his novel Erewhon (1872).
* November – Mendele Mocher Sforim's first Yiddish language story, "Dos Kleine Menshele" (The Little Man), is published in the Odessa weekly Kol Mevasser.[2]
* December 29 – An estimated 7000 people attend the funeral of William Makepeace Thackeray at Kensington Gardens and nearly 2000 his burial in London's Kensal Green Cemetery.[3]
* unknown dates
* The Freies Deutsches Hochstift association acquires the Goethe House (his 1749 birthplace) in Frankfurt am Main.[4]
* The Romanian Junimea literary society is established in Iași. It will exercise a major influence on Romanian culture until the 1910s.[5]
* Elvira, or the Love of a Tyrant, a novel by the Neapolitan author Giuseppe Folliero de Luna, becomes the first published in the Maltese language, as Elvira Jew Imħabba ta’ Tirann.
* Peruvian writer Ricardo Palma begins periodical publication of his Peruvian Traditions (Tradiciones peruanas).
* Publication begins in the U.K. of a seminal edition of The Works of William Shakespeare (the "Cambridge Shakespeare"), edited by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, published by Macmillan and printed by Cambridge University Press.[6]

## New books

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### Fiction

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* William Harrison Ainsworth – Cardinal Pole
* Mary Elizabeth Braddon
* Aurora Floyd
* Eleanor's Victory
* John Marchman's Legacy
* Nikolai Chernyshevsky – What Is to Be Done? (‹Что делать?›, Shto delat'?)
* George Eliot – Romola
* "Charles Felix" (probably Charles Warren Adams) – The Notting Hill Mystery (serialization completed, book form; considered first full-length detective novel in English)[7][8]
* Elizabeth Gaskell
* A Dark Night's Work
* Sylvia's Lovers
* Théophile Gautier – Captain Fracasse
* Edward Everett Hale – The Man Without a Country
* Mary Jane Holmes – Marian Grey
* Jean Ingelow – "The Prince's Dream" (short story)
* Julia Kavanagh – Queen Mab
* Sheridan Le Fanu – The House by the Churchyard
* John Neal — The White-Faced Pacer, or, Before and After the Battle[9]
* Margaret Oliphant – Salem Chapel, first of The Chronicles of Carlingford (in book form)
* Ouida – Held in Bondage[10]
* Charles Reade – Very Hard Cash (later Hard Cash)
* Miguel Riofrío – La Emancipada (the first Ecuadorian novel)
* Anne Thackeray Ritchie – The Story of Elizabeth
* Leo Tolstoy – The Cossacks: A Caucasus Tale of 1852 (‹Казаки›, Kazaki)
* Anthony Trollope
* Rachel Ray
* The Small House at Allington (serialization continues)
* John Townsend Trowbridge – Cudjo's Cave
* Giovanni Verga – Sulle Lagune (In the Lagoons)

### Children and young people

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* Charles Kingsley – The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (complete in book form)[11]
* Jules Verne – Five Weeks in a Balloon

### Drama

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* W. S. Gilbert – Uncle Baby
* Tom Taylor – The Ticket-of-Leave Man

### Poetry

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* Rosalía de Castro – Cantares gallegos
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Tales of a Wayside Inn, including "Paul Revere's Ride"

### Non-fiction

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* John Austin (posthumously, compiled by Sarah Austin) – Lectures on Jurisprudence
* Samuel Bache – Miracles the Credentials of the Christ
* William Barnes – Glossary of Dorset Dialect
* Henry Walter Bates – The Naturalist on the River Amazons.[12]
* William Wells Brown – The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements
* Francis James Child – Observations on the Language of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
* Gustav Freytag – Die Technik des Dramas
* Alexander Gilchrist (posthumously, edited by Anne Gilchrist) – Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus"; with selections from his poems and other writings
* William Howitt – History of the Supernatural
* Fanny Kemble – Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839
* Abraham Lincoln – The Gettysburg Address
* Charles Lyell – Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man[12]
* Ernest Renan – The Life of Jesus (Vie de Jésus)

## Births

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* February 9 – Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope Hawkins), English novelist and playwright (died 1933)
* February 14 – Virginia Frazer Boyle, American author, poet (died 1938)
* March 3 – Arthur Machen (Arthur Llewellyn Jones), Welsh novelist and short story writer (died 1947)
* March 9 — Emelie Tracy Y. Swett, American author (d. 1892)
* March 12 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet (died 1938)
* March 17 – Olivia Shakespear (née Tucker), British novelist, playwright and patron of the arts (died 1938)
* April 9 – Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Irish novelist (died 1951)
* April 20 — Helen Dortch Longstreet, American social advocate, librarian, and newspaper woman (died 1962)
* April 26 – Arno Holz, German Naturalist poet and dramatist (died 1929)
* April 29 – Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet (died 1933)
* May 27 – Matthew J. Royal, Canadian novelist and playwright (died 1900)[13]
* June 10 – Louis Couperus, Dutch fiction writer (died 1923)
* June 20 – Florence White, English food writer (died 1940)
* July 13 – Margaret Murray, Indian-born English archeologist and historian (died 1963)
* August 7 – Gene Stratton Porter, American novelist and naturalist (died 1924)
* September 1 – Violet Jacob (Violet Kennedy-Erskine), Scottish historical novelist and poet (died 1946)
* September 8 – W. W. Jacobs, English short story writer (died 1943)
* September 22 – Ferenc Herczeg (Franz Herzog), Hungarian dramatist (died 1954)
* November 1
* Charlotte O'Conor Eccles, Irish-born London writer, translator and journalist (died 1911)
* Arthur Morrison, English writer (died 1945)
* November 18 – Richard Dehmel, German poet (died 1920)
* November 21 – Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Q.), English novelist and anthologist (died 1944)[14]
* December 16 – George Santayana, American novelist and poet (died 1952)

## Deaths

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* May 13 – August Hahn, German Protestant theologian (born 1792)
* July 3 – William Barksdale, American journalist and Confederate general (killed in action, born 1821[15]
* July 10 – Clement Clarke Moore, American classicist and poet (born 1779)
* September 17 – Alfred de Vigny, French poet, dramatist and novelist (born 1797)[16]
* September 20 – Jacob Grimm, German philologist and fairy-tale author (born 1785)[17]
* October 6 – Frances Trollope, English novelist and writer (born 1779)
* October 8 – Richard Whately, English theologian and archbishop (born 1787)
* December 13 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and dramatist (born 1813)
* December 17 – Émile Saisset, French philosopher (born 1814)
* December 24 – William Makepeace Thackeray, Indian-born English novelist and travel writer (stroke, born 1811)[18]

## Awards

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* Newdigate Prize – Thomas Llewellyn Thomas[19]

## References

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1. ^ Figes, Orlando (2019). The Europeans. [London]: Allen Lane. pp. 298–9\. ISBN 978-0-241-00489-0.
2. ^ Solomon Liptzin (1985). A History of Yiddish Literature. Jonathan David. p. 41\. ISBN 978-0-8246-0307-6.
3. ^ Victorian Web: Grave of William Makepeace Thackeray. Accessed 8 March 2013
4. ^ Stumm, Alexander (2017). Architektonische Konzepte der Rekonstruktion. Birkhäuser. pp. 161–166\. ISBN 978-3-0356-1349-0.
5. ^ Romanian Review. Romania. 1990. p. 62.
6. ^ William Shakespeare (15 October 1992). The Tragedy of King Lear. Cambridge University Press. p. 5\. ISBN 978-0-521-33729-8.
7. ^ Collins, Paul (2011-01-07). "Before Hercule or Sherlock, There Was Ralph". The New York Times Book Review.
8. ^ Symons, Julian (1972). Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel. London: Faber and Faber. p. 51\. ISBN 978-0-571-09465-3. "There is no doubt that the first detective novel, preceding Collins and Gaboriau, was The Notting Hill Mystery."
9. ^ Lease, Benjamin (1972). That Wild Fellow John Neal and the American Literary Revolution. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. p. 206\. ISBN 0-226-46969-7.
10. ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
11. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 283–284\. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
12. ^ a b Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1863". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
13. ^ Clute, John (12 September 2022). "Royal, Matthew J". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
14. ^ Arthue Quiller -Couch A biographical study of Q. CUP Archive. p. 3.
15. ^ William Barksdale biography Archived 2013-09-16 at the Wayback Machine, Sons of Confederate Veterans
16. ^ Alfred de Vigny (1972). Cinq Mars (Complete). Library of Alexandria. p. 1\. ISBN 978-1-4655-5006-4.
17. ^ William Bright (1992). International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. p. 93\. ISBN 978-0-19-505196-4.
18. ^ The Nineteenth Century and After. Leonard Scott Publishing Company. 1945. p. 127.
19. ^ Jones, Gwilym Arthur. "Thomas, Thomas Llewelyn (1840-1897), scholar, teacher and linguist". Welsh Biography Online. University of Wales Press. Retrieved 20 October 2020.

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