1872 in literature

by D. H. Friston (The Dark Blue'', 1872) • March • The Federation of Madrid expels Paul Lafargue and all other signatories to an ostensibly subversive article in La Emancipación. • Serialisation of Sheridan Le Fanu's Gothic vampire novella Carmilla ends in the monthly The Dark Blue. Later this year it appears in his collection In a Glass Darkly. Set in the Duchy of Styria, it helps to introduce the lesbian vampire genre. • June 15 – Thomas Hardy's second novel (and the first set in Wessex), Under the Greenwood Tree, is published in London (as "by the author of Desperate Remedies"). • June 19 – The Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire is founded in Strasbourg as the Kaiserliche Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek zu Straßburg, a public regional and academic library for the new German territory of Alsace-Lorraine (Reichsland Elsass-Lothringen) after destruction of its predecessors in the Siege of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War. • July – Rose la Touche rejects a proposal from John Ruskin for the last time. • July 7 – Paul Verlaine abandons his family for London with Arthur Rimbaud. • September 13 (O. S.: September 1) – Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu first attends the literary club Junimea of Iași and reads out his fantasy story Poor Dionis (Sărmanul Dionis). It is poorly received by the Junimists. • September 30 – George MacDonald arrives in Boston for a lecture tour of the United States. • November (approximate date) – Lafcadio Hearn becomes a reporter on the Cincinnati Daily Enquirer. • December 3 – Assyriologist George Smith presents the first translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh to a meeting of the Society of Biblical Archaeology in London. • December 22 – Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days (Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) finishes serialisation (since November 2) in the daily Le Temps, the day after the concluding date of the narrative. • unknown dates • Benito Pérez Galdós begins Trafalgar, the first in the series of historical novels known as Episodios Nacionales. • The first university course in American Literature is held at Princeton University by John Seely Hart. • The Scottish Gaelic magazine Féillire first appears as Almanac Gàilig air son 1872 in Inverness. ==New books==

Fiction • William Harrison Ainsworth – Boscobel • Machado de Assis – Ressurreição • Mary Elizabeth Braddon – To the Bitter End • Rhoda Broughton • Good-bye, Sweetheart! • Poor Pretty Bobby • Samuel Butler – Erewhon • Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Parisians • Wilkie Collins – Poor Miss Finch • Annie Hall Cudlip – A Passion in Tatters • Alphonse Daudet – Tartarin de Tarascon • Fyodor Dostoevsky – Demons (Бесы, Bésy) • Alexandre Dumas, père – Création et rédemption • George Eliot – Middlemarch (serial publication concluded) • Mihai Eminescu – Poor Dionis (Sărmanul Dionis) • Thomas Hardy – Under the Greenwood Tree • Mór Jókai • Eppur si muove – És mégis mozog a Föld (And yet the Earth moves) • The Man with the Golden Touch (Az arany ember) • Sheridan Le Fanu • In a Glass Darkly • Willing to Die • Nikolai Leskov – The Cathedral Folk (Соборяне, Soboryane) • Eliza Lynn Linton – The True History of Joshua Davidson, Christian and Communist • Margaret Oliphant – At His Gates • Bayard Taylor – Beauty and The Beast, and Tales of Home • Anthony Trollope – The Golden Lion of Granpere • Jules Verne • ''The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais dans l'Afrique australe)'' • "Dr. Ox's Experiment" • The Fur Country (Le Pays des fourrures) • Émile Zola – La Curée Children and young adults • R. D. Blackmore – The Maid of Sker • Frances Freeling Broderip – Tiny Tadpoles, and Other Tales • Lewis Carroll – Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There • Juliana Horatia Ewing – A Flat Iron for a Farthing • George MacDonald – The Princess and the Goblin • E. J. Richmond – The Jewelled Serpent • Susan Coolidge – What Katy Did (first in the What Katy Did series of five books) • Ouida – A Dog of Flanders Drama • François Coppée – Les Bijoux de la Délivrance • Franz Grillparzer – The Jewess of Toledo (Die Jüdin von Toledo, first performed posthumously, written 1851) • Prosper Mérimée – La Chambre bleue (published posthumously) • August Strindberg – Master Olof • Ivan Turgenev – A Month in the Country («Месяц в деревне», Mesiats v derevne, first performed) Poetry • José Hernández Athénaïs Michelet Martín Fierro (first part) Non-fiction • William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli, Athénaïs Michelet – Nature; or the Poetry of Earth and Sea • ''Chambers's English Dictionary'' • William Cullen Bryant – Picturesque America, vol. 1 • John Evans – The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain • Warren Felt Evans – Mental Medicine • Sophia Jex-Blake – Medical Women: A Thesis and a History • Friedrich Nietzsche – The Birth of Tragedy (Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik) • Alexandru Papadopol-Calimah – Scrieri vechi perdute atingetóre de Dacia (Old Lost Writings Relating to Dacia; first installments) • Charles Busbridge Snepp – Songs of Grace and Glory • Mark Twain – "Roughing It" • Henry Wilson – History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, vols. 1 & 2 ==Births==

• January 31 – Zane Grey, American Western novelist (died 1939) • March 31 – Mary Lewis Langworthy, American pageant writer (died 1949) • April 4 • Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș – Romanian art historian, ethnographer and journalist (died 1952) • Frida Uhl – Austrian writer (died 1943) • May 2 – Ichiyō Higuchi, Japanese writer (died 1896) • May 21 (May 9 O.S.) – Teffi, born Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya, Russian-born humorist (died 1952) • May 31 – W. Heath Robinson, English cartoonist and illustrator (died 1944) • June 27 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, African American poet, novelist and playwright (died 1906) • August 24 – Max Beerbohm, English essayist and parodist (died 1956) • September 15 – Frances Garnet Wolseley, English horticulturist and garden writer (died 1936) • September 22 – Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, American fiction writer and poet (died 1958) • October 8 – John Cowper Powys, Anglo-Welsh novelist (died 1963) • October 10 – Arthur Talmage Abernethy, American theologian and poet (died 1956) • October 18 (October 6 O.S.) – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet, novelist and composer (died 1936) • October 20 – F. M. Mayor, English novelist (died 1932) • November 23 – Eraclie Sterian, Romanian science writer and playwright (died 1948) • December 28 – Pío Baroja, Spanish novelist (died 1956) ==Deaths==

's tomb • January 21 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian poet and dramatist (born 1791) • February 6 – Sir Thomas Phillipps, English book collector (born 1792) • March 4 – Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (born 1790) • March 10 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian philosopher, journalist and politician (born 1805) • March 11 – Emily Taylor, English author, poet and hymn writer (born 1795) • April 1 – Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian (born 1805) • April 13 – Samuel Bamford, English essayist and poet (born 1788) • April 20 – Ljudevit Gaj, Croatian linguist and journalist (born 1809) • May 13 – Moritz Hartmann, German poet (born 1821) • May 29 – Frank Key Howard, American journalist and memoirist (born 1826) • June 1 – Charles Lever, Irish novelist (born 1806) • July 25 – Gregorio Gutiérrez González, Colombian poet (born 1826) • August 8 – Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (born 1809) • September 11 – Countess Dash, French writer (born 1804) • September 18 – Herbert Haines, English historian and Anglican theologian (born 1826) • September 22 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (born 1801) • October 10 – Fanny Fern, American journalist, novelist and children's writer (born 1811) • October 21 – Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, Swiss historian (born 1794) • November 16 – William Gilham, American military writer (born 1818) • December 23 – Théophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (born 1811) ==References==