1869 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1869.

Events

February 3 – Booth's Theatre opens on Manhattan with the owner, Edwin Booth, playing the male lead in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
May 22 – Serial publication of Anthony Trollope's novel He Knew He Was Right concludes and it is issued in London as a book, the first to include a fictional private investigator, ex-policeman Samuel Bozzle (in a case of marital breakdown).
August
- Ambrose Bierce, writing a satirical column for the San Francisco News Letter, begins to produce the cynical definitions which will eventually become The Devil's Dictionary.
- Macmillan Publishing opens its first American office in New York City, headed by George Edward Brett.^[1]
October 5 – Model, poet and artist Elizabeth Siddal (d. 1862) is exhumed at Highgate Cemetery in London in order to recover the manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems buried with her.
December – Publication of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace («Война и миръ», Voyna i mir) complete in book form concludes. It is printed in Moscow and sold by the author on subscription.^[2]

Matthew Arnold – Culture and Anarchy
P. T. Barnum – Struggles and Triumphs
Warren Felt Evans – The Mental Cure, illustrating the influence of the Mind on the Body
William Ewart Gladstone – Juventus Mundi: The gods and men of "the heroic" age
John Stuart Mill – The Subjection of Women
Mark Twain – The Innocents Abroad
Richard Wagner – Das Judenthum in der Musik (Jewishness in Music)

January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter and architect (died 1907)
February 8 – Victor Ido, born Hans van de Wall, Dutch East Indian journalist, novelist and playwright (died 1948)
February 11 – Else Lasker-Schüler, German-born poet, playwright and short story writer (died 1945)
March 11 – F. G. Loring, English writer and naval officer (died 1951)
March 14 – Algernon Blackwood, English writer (died 1951)
May 10 – Rachel Davis Harris, African American librarian (died 1969)
May 23 – Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, American poet (died 1944)
June 10 – Arthur Shearly Cripps, English-born poet, short story writer and Anglican priest in Africa (died 1952)
July 1 – William Strunk, Jr., American professor of English (died 1946)
July 8 – William Vaughn Moody, American dramatist and poet (died 1910)
July 29 – Booth Tarkington, American novelist (died 1946)
August 10 – Laurence Binyon, English poet and scholar (died 1943)
October 6 – Bo Bergman, Swedish poet (died 1967)
November 15 – Charlotte Mew, English poet (suicide, 1928)
November 20 – Zinaida Gippius, Russian writer (died 1945)
November 22 – André Gide, French writer (died 1951)
December 22 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (died 1935)
December 30 – Stephen Leacock, English-born Canadian humorist and economist (died 1944)

January 20 – Carl Wilhelm Göttling, German classical commentator (born 1793)^[3]
January 30 – William Carleton, Irish writer (born 1794)
February 15 – Ghalib, Indian poet (born 1796)
February 28 – Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and politician (born 1790)
May 18 – Peter Cunningham, British literary scholar and antiquarian (born 1816)
July 19 – Victor Aimé Huber, German travel writer and literary historian (born 1800)
August 2 – Thomas Medwin, English poet, biographer and translator (born 1788)
October 18 – Simon Jenko, Slovene poet (born 1835)
November 3 – Andreas Kalvos, Greek Romantic poet and dramatist (born 1792)

↑ Trager, James. The New York Chronology: The Ultimate Compendium of Events, People, and Anecdotes from the Dutch to the Present. p. 154.
↑ Martin, R. Eden (July 2012). "The Original War and Peace" (PDF). Caxtonian. Caxton Club. 20 (7): 1–5. Retrieved 2015-10-21.
↑ Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Göttling, Karl Wilhelm". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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