1865 in literature

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The year 1865 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• June 9 - Charles Dickens is involved in the Staplehurst rail crash.
• November 18 - Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in a New York weekly, The Saturday Press.
• Edwin Abbott Abbott becomes headmaster of the City of London School at the age of 26.
• Our Young Folks, an American periodical for children, publishes its first issue.

New books

• José de Alencar - Iracema
• R M Ballantyne -The Lighthouse
• Wilhelm Busch - Max und Moritz
• Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend
• Mary Mapes Dodge - Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
• Edmond de Goncourt - Germinie Lacerteux
• Charles Kingsley - Hereward the Wake
• Sheridan Le Fanu - Guy Deverell
• George MacDonald - Alec Forbes of Howglen
• Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds
• Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon
• Emile Zola - La Confession de Claude

New drama

• Francis Burnand - Windsor Castle
• Henrik Ibsen - Brand

Poetry

• Edward Lear - The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple

Non-fiction

• Annals of Joseon Dynasty (final volume)
• P. T. Barnum - The Humbugs of the World
• Elizabeth Gaskell - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
• Jacob Grimm - Deutsche Sagen
• Karl Marx - Value, Price and Profit
• John Stuart Mill - Examinations of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy
• James Hutchison Stirling - The Secret of Hegel: Being the Hegelian System in Origin Principle, Form and Matter
• James Hudson Taylor - China's Spiritual Need and Claims

Births

• February 21 - John Haden Badley, teacher and writer (+ 1967)
• March 15 - Edith Maude Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (+ 1914)
• March 20 - Arthur Bayldon, poet (+ 1958)
• March 29 - Stephen Bonsal, diplomat and writer (+ 1951)
• June 13 - William Butler Yeats (+ 1939)
• June 26 - Bernard Berenson, art historian (+ 1959)
• August 14 - Pietro Gori, poet (+ 1911)
• September 11 - Rainis, poet and dramatist (+ 1929)
• December 30 - Rudyard Kipling (+ 1936)
• date unknown - Enrico Corradini, novelist and journalist (+ 1931)

Deaths

• January 11 - Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland, historian
• January 18 - Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville, diarist
• January 19 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, philosopher
• January 21 - Joseph Xavier Saintine, novelist and dramatist
• February 6 - Isabella Beeton, household management expert
• February 25 - Otto Ludwig, German novelist/playwright
• April 2
  • John Cassell, publisher
  • Richard Cobden, political writer
• April 15 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America
• May 14 - Pierre François Xavier de Ram, historian
• June 10 - Lydia Sigourney, poet
• September 30 - Dudley Costello, journalist and novelist
• November 12 - Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist
• December 1 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, poet
• December 3 - Joseph Marie Quérard, bibliographer
• December 20 - Barton Bouchier, English religious writer.
• date unknown - William Edmonstoune Aytoun, poet and humorist

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