1862 in literature

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The year 1862 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• February - Ambrose Bierce joins the staff of General William Badcock Hazen.
• July 4 - Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) extemporises the story that becomes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a rowing boat trip on The Isis from Oxford to Godstow.
• November 26 - Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell.
• Louisa May Alcott becomes a nurse at the Union hospital in Georgetown, D.C.
• December 24 - William Dean Howells marries Elinor Mead at the American embassy in Paris.
• James Russell Lowell begins writing for The North American Review.
• Nikolai Chernyshevsky is imprisoned in St Petersburg and begins his novel What Is To Be Done?
• Karl Heinrich Ulrichs begins writing about homosexuality under the pseudonym of "Numa Numantius".

New books

• José de Alencar - Lucíola
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley's Secret
• Camilo Castelo Branco - Amor de Perdição
• Wilkie Collins - No Name
• Thomas De Quincey - Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets
• Gustave Flaubert - Salammbo
• Eugène Fromentin - Dominique
• Edmond & Jules de Goncourt - Sister Philomene
• Victor Hugo - Les Misérables
• Henry Kingsley - Ravenshoe
• George MacDonald - David Elginbrod
• Elizabeth Stoddard - The Morgesons
• William Makepeace Thackeray - The Adventures of Philip
• Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
• Ellen Wood - The Channings

New drama

• Émile Augier - Le Fils de Giboyer
• Henrik Ibsen - Love's Comedy (first published)

Poetry

• Pavlo Chubynsky - Ukraine's glory has not perished (later the Ukrainian national anthem)
• George Meredith - Modern Love
• Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market and other poems

Non-fiction

• John William Draper - The History of the Intellectual Development of Europe
• Julia Kavanagh - French Women of Letters
• John Ruskin - Unto This Last

Births

• January 24 - Edith Wharton (+ 1937)
• May 1 - Marcel Prévost, dramatist (+ 1941)
• May 15 - Arthur Schnitzler, dramatist and novelist (+ 1931)
• June 6 - Sir Henry Newbolt, poet (+ 1938)
• August 1 - Montague Rhodes James, scholar, short story writer (+ 1936)
• August 6 - Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, historian (+ 1932)
• August 29 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright (+ 1949)
• September 27 - Francis Adams, poet, novelist, essayist and dramatist (+ 1893)
• October 13 - Mary Kingsley, travel writer (+ 1900)
• December 8 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (+ 1921)
• December 16 - John Fox, Jr., American novelist and journalist (+ 1919)
• December 23 - Henri Pirenne, historian (+ 1935)

Deaths

• January 11 - Jean Philibert Damiron, philosopher
• February 24 - Bernhard Severin Ingemann, novelist and poet
• April 6 - Fitz James O'Brien, science fiction pioneer
• May 6 - Henry David Thoreau
• May 25 - Johann Nestroy, dramatist
• November 26 - Julia Pardoe, novelist and historian
• November 30 - James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor
• date unknown - Charlotte Barton, children's author
• date unknown - Thomas Jefferson Hogg, biographer

Awards