1871 in literature

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The year 1871 involved saw some significant events relevant to literature.

New books

• Louisa May Alcott - Little Men
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Fenton's Quest
• Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Coming Race
• Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass
• George Eliot - Middlemarch
• Henry James - Watch and Ward
• George Meredith - The Adventures of Harry Richmond
• Johanna Spyri - A Leaf on Vrony's Grave
• Mark Twain
  • Eye Openers
  • Screamers
• Jules Verne - A Floating City
• Émile Zola - La Fortune des Rougon

New drama

• W. S. Gilbert - Pygmalion and Galatea

Non-fiction

• Charles Darwin - The Descent of Man

Births

• March 27 - Heinrich Mann, narrator, dramatist and essayist (died 1950)
• June 17 - James Weldon Johnson (died 1938)
• July 3 - W. H. Davies, poet (died 1940)
• July 10 - Marcel Proust, novelist (died 1922)
• August 27 - Theodore Dreiser, novelist (died 1945)
• September 27 - Grazia Deledda, (Italian) writer - Nobel prize winner (died 1926)
• October 30 - Paul Valéry, French poet (died 1945)
• November 1 - Stephen Crane, novelist (died 1900)
• November 10 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (died 1947)

Deaths

• February 12 - Alice Cary, poet (born 1820)
• March 17 - Robert Chambers, Scottish writer, publisher (born 1802)
• July 31 - Phoebe Cary, poet (born 1824)