1867 in literature

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The year 1867 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• Three new American periodicals for children — Oliver Optic's Magazine, Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly, and the Riverside Magazine for Young People — all begin publishing.

New books

• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Circe
• Rhoda Broughton
  • Cometh Up as a Flower
  • Not Wisely, But Too Well

• Charles Theodore Henri de Coster - The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak
• Augusta Evans - St. Elmo
• Émile Gaboriau - The Mystery of Orcival
• Edmond & Jules de Goncourt - Manette Salomon
• Thomas Hardy - The Poor Man and the Lady (Hardy's first novel - unpublished)
• William Morris - The Life and Death of Jason
• Ippolito Nievo - The Castle of Fratta
• Ouida - Under Two Flags
• Hesba Stretton - Jessica's First Prayer
• Anthony Trollope - The Last Chronicle of Barsetshire
• Mark Twain - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• Ivan Turgenev - Smoke
• Emile Zola - Thérèse Raquin

New drama

• Henrik Ibsen - Peer Gynt (first published)
• Thomas William Robertson - Caste

New poetry

• Henry Timrod - "Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867"

Non-fiction

• Walter Bagehot - The English Constitution
• William Thomson - Treatise on Natural Philosophy

Births

• January 18 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet (died 1916)
• February 7 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American novelist (died 1957)
• February 18 - Hedwig Courths-Mahler, novelist (died 1950)
• May 8 - Margarete Böhme, German novelist (died 1939)
• May 27 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (died 1931)
• October 31 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (died 1911)

Deaths

• May 27 - Thomas Bulfinch, American author
• July 31 - Catharine Maria Sedgwick, American novelist
• August 8 - Sarah Austin, historian
• August 31 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet and writer
• 7 October - Henry Timrod, Confederate poet

Awards