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The year 1869 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events
- Macmillan Publishing opens first American office in New York City headed by George Edward Brett
New books
- Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives
- R M Ballantyne -Erling the Bold
- Horatio Alger, Jr. - Luck and Pluck
- R. D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone
- Alexandre Dumas, père - The Knight of Sainte-Hermine
- Gustave Flaubert - Sentimental Education
- Émile Gaboriau - Monsieur Lecoq
- Ivan Goncharov - The Precipice
- Edmond de Goncourt & Jules de Goncourt -Madame Gervaisais
- Victor Hugo - L'Homme Qui Rit
- Sheridan Le Fanu - The Wyvern Mystery
- Joaquim Manuel de Macedo - A Luneta Mágica
- Hector Malot - Romain Kalbris
- Hesba Stretton - Alone in London
- Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
- Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad
- Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Chaplet of Pearls
Poetry
- Henry Kendall -Leaves from Australian Forests
Non-fiction
- Matthew Arnold - Culture and Anarchy
- P. T. Barnum - Struggles and Triumphs
- John Stuart Mill - The Subjection of Women
- Richard Wagner - Das Judenthum in der Musik
Births
- March 14 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (d. 1951)
- July 8 - William Vaughn Moody, dramatist and poet (d. 1910)
- July 29 - Booth Tarkington (d. 1946)
- August 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar (d. 1943)
- October 6 - Bo Bergman, poet (d. 1967)
- November 22 - André Gide, author (d. 1951)
- December 22 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet (d. 1935)
- December 30 - Stephen Leacock (d. 1944)
Deaths
- January 20 - Carl Wilhelm Göttling, classical commentator
- February 28 - Alphonse de Lamartine, poet
- July 19 - Victor Aimé Huber, travel writer and literary historian
- October 18 - Simon Jenko, poet
- November 3 - Andreas Kalvos, dramatist
Awards
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