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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1870.

Events[]

Luke Fildes – The Empty Chair (engraving). Fildes, the illustrator for Edwin Drood at the time of Charles Dickens's death, shows Dickens's empty chair in his study at Gads Hill Place. It appears in the Christmas edition of The Graphic and thousands of prints of it are sold.^[1]

January 19 – Ivan Turgenev attends and writes about the public execution by guillotine of the spree killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann outside the gates of La Roquette Prisons in Paris.^[2]
March 7 – Thomas Hardy meets his first wife, Emma Gifford, in Cornwall.^[3]
March 28 – Serialisation of Kenward Philp's The Bowery Detective in The Fireside Companion (New York) begins, the first known story to include the word detective in the title.
April–September – The serialisation of Charles Dickens' last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, is left unfinished on his death on June 9 at Gads Hill Place in Kent, from a stroke, aged 58.^[4]
May – Karl May begins a second four-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds, at Waldheim, Saxony.^[5]
Spring – Serial publication begins of Aleksis Kivi's only novel Seitsemän veljestä ("Seven Brothers"), the first notable novel in the Finnish language.
August 24/25 – Libraries of the University of Strasbourg and the City of Strasbourg at Temple Neuf are destroyed by fire during the Siege of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War, resulting in the loss of 3,446 medieval manuscripts, including the original 12th-century Hortus deliciarum compiled by Herrad of Landsberg, the Apologist codex containing the only text of the early Epistle to Diognetus, and rare Renaissance books.^[6]
September 17 – The first performance of Alexander Pushkin's play Boris Godunov (1825) is given at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg by members of the Alexandrinsky Theatre.
c. September 20 – Friedrich Engels moves permanently to London from Manchester.^[7]
December 18 – The Russian literary weekly Niva («Ни́ва», "Cornfield") is first published by Adolf Marks in Saint Petersburg.
unknown date – Construction of the David Sassoon Library in Bombay, India, is completed.^[8]

New books[]

Fiction[]

William Harrison Ainsworth - Talbot Harland
Thomas Bailey Aldrich – The Story of a Bad Boy
Thomas Archer – The Terrible Sights of London
Rhoda Broughton – Red as a Rose is She
Wilkie Collins – Man and Wife
Annie Denton Cridge - Man's Rights; Or, How Would You Like It? Comprising Dreams
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão – [pt] (The Mystery of the Sintra Road)
Charles Dickens – The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Benjamin Disraeli – Lothair
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Eternal Husband («Вечный муж», Vechny muzh)
Edward Jenkins – Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes
Mór Jókai – Fekete gyémántok (Black Diamonds, i. e. coal)
Aleksis Kivi – Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers)
Jonas Lie – Den Fremsynte (The Visionary or Pictures From Nordland)
George Meredith – The Adventures of Harry Richmond (begins serial publication)
William Morris – The Earthly Paradise
Charles Reade - Put Yourself in His Place^[9]
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch – Venus in Furs (Venus im Pelz)
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin – The History of a Town («История одного города», Istoriya odnogo goroda)
Bayard Taylor – Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania
Anthony Trollope
- An Editor's Tales
- The Vicar of Bullhampton
Ivan Turgenev - Stepnoy korol Lir (Степной король Лир); novella, English translation: King Lear of the Steppes
Jules Verne
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers)
- Around the Moon (Autour de la Lune)
Charlotte M. Yonge – The Caged Lion

Children and young people[]

John Neal — Great Mysteries and Little Plagues^[10]

Drama[]

James Albery – Two Roses
Ludwig Anzengruber (as L. Gruber) – Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld (The Priest of Kirchfeld)
Henry James Byron – Uncle Dick's Darling
Pietro Cossa – Nero
Lydia Koidula
- Maret ja Miina (or Kosjakased; The Betrothal Birches)
- Saaremaa Onupoeg (The Cousin from Saaremaa)
Lord Newry – Ecarte
George Sand and Sarah Bernhardt – L'Autre
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy – Tsar Boris («Царь Борис», published)

Poetry[]

Lear's illustration of The Owl and the Pussycat from Nonsense Songs

Bret Harte – The Heathen Chinee
Edward Lear – Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (dated 1871),^[11] including "The Owl and the Pussycat"
Giovanni Marradi – Canzone moderne
Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Poems,^[11] including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life"

Non-fiction[]

J. E. Austen-Leigh – A Memoir of Jane Austen
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1st edition)
Richard William Church – Life of St. Anselm
Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Army Life in a Black Regiment
Hargrave Jennings – The Rosicrucians, their Rites and Mysteries
Henry Maudsley – Body and Mind
William Robinson – The Wild Garden
Charles Dudley Warner - My Summer in a Garden and Calvin, A Study of Character

Births[]

January 3 – Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson), Australian novelist (died 1946)
March 5 – Frank Norris, American novelist (died 1902)
April 7 – Gustav Landauer, German philosopher and revolutionary (murdered 1919)
June 25 – Erskine Childers, Irish novelist (executed 1922)
July 27 – Hilaire Belloc, French-born English writer, poet and satirist (died 1953)
October 18 – Petre P. Negulescu, Romanian philosopher (died 1951)
October 22 (October 10 OS) – Ivan Bunin, Russian-born writer, recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1953)
October 29 – Gerald Duckworth, English publisher (died 1937)
December 17 – Ioan A. Bassarabescu, Romanian short story writer and politician (died 1952)
December 18 – Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), English short story writer and dramatist (killed in action 1916)^[12]

Deaths[]

February 25 – Henrik Hertz, Danish poet (born 1797)
April 24 – Louisa Stuart Costello, Irish writer on history and travel (born 1799)
June 9 – Charles Dickens, English novelist (born 1812)^[13]
June 11 – William Gilmore Simms, American poet, novelist and historian (born 1806)
June 24 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet (born 1833)^[14]
July 19 – Benjamin Thorpe, scholar of Old English (born c. 1782)
July 20 – Jules de Goncourt, French novelist and critic (syphilis, born 1830)^[15]
July 24 – Anders Abraham Grafström, Swedish poet and historian (born 1790)
July 30 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian journalist and poet (born 1818)^[16]
September 12 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author and explorer (born 1836)^[17]
September 23 – Prosper Mérimée, French writer (b. 1803)^[18]
November 4 – Comte de Lautreamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse), French poet and writer (born 1846)^[19]
December 5 – Alexandre Dumas, père, French novelist (born 1802)^[20]

References[]

^ "Luke Fildes". TheFamousArtists.com.
^ Brumfield, William С. (2014), "Invitation to a Beheading: Turgenev and Troppmann", Informatsionnyi gumanitarnyi portal "Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie" (6), archived from the original on 2015-03-16, retrieved 2015-03-17.
^ "Emma Gifford". Spartacus Educational. Archived from the original on 2013-08-02. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
^ Obituary, The Times (London), August 1870.
^ Sonderheft der Karl-May-Gesellschaft. Karl-May-Gesellschaft. 1972. p. 129.
^ "History of the BNU". Strasbourg: BNU (Bibliothèque nationale universitaire). Retrieved 2014-01-21.
^ "Outstanding Dates". The Life and Work of Karl Marx. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
^ Govinda Nārāyaṇa Māḍagã̄vakara (2009). Govind Narayan's Mumbai: An Urban Biography from 1863. Anthem Press. p. 366. ISBN 978-1-84331-305-2.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Put Yourself in His Place" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 120. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.
^ ^a ^b Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ Ignatius Frederick Clarke (1997). The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come. Liverpool University Press. p. 438. ISBN 978-0-85323-642-9.
^ "Dickens, Charles" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ Harris, Max (1983). The unknown great Australian and other psychobiographical portraits. Melbourne: Sun Books. p. 45. ISBN 9780725104245.
^ Pages from the Goncourt Journals (2006). NYRB Classics. ISBN 159017190X.
^ "Vinje-Sanger" (in Norwegian). Store norske leksikon.
^ Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). The Biographical Dictionary of America . Vol. 7. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 75 – via Wikisource. [scan ]
^ "Prosper Mérimée". Encyclopaedia Britannica.
^ Bachelard, Gaston (1986). "Lautréamont". Dallas Institute.
^ Douglas Munro (1978). Alexandre Dumas Père: A Bibliography of Works Translated Into English to 1910. Garland Pub. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-8240-9836-0.

[1] "Luke Fildes". TheFamousArtists.com.

[2] Brumfield, William С. (2014), "Invitation to a Beheading: Turgenev and Troppmann", Informatsionnyi gumanitarnyi portal "Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie" (6), archived from the original on 2015-03-16, retrieved 2015-03-17.

[3] "Emma Gifford". Spartacus Educational. Archived from the original on 2013-08-02. Retrieved 2013-07-23.

[4] Obituary, The Times (London), August 1870.

[5] Sonderheft der Karl-May-Gesellschaft. Karl-May-Gesellschaft. 1972. p. 129.

[6] "History of the BNU". Strasbourg: BNU (Bibliothèque nationale universitaire). Retrieved 2014-01-21.

[7] "Outstanding Dates". The Life and Work of Karl Marx. Retrieved 2013-07-23.

[8] Govinda Nārāyaṇa Māḍagã̄vakara (2009). Govind Narayan's Mumbai: An Urban Biography from 1863. Anthem Press. p. 366. ISBN 978-1-84331-305-2.

[9] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Put Yourself in His Place" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

[10] Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 120. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.

[cocel-11] Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.

[12] Ignatius Frederick Clarke (1997). The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come. Liverpool University Press. p. 438. ISBN 978-0-85323-642-9.

[13] "Dickens, Charles" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[14] Harris, Max (1983). The unknown great Australian and other psychobiographical portraits. Melbourne: Sun Books. p. 45. ISBN 9780725104245.

[15] Pages from the Goncourt Journals (2006). NYRB Classics. ISBN 159017190X.

[16] "Vinje-Sanger" (in Norwegian). Store norske leksikon.

[17] Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). The Biographical Dictionary of America . Vol. 7. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 75 – via Wikisource. [scan ]

[18] "Prosper Mérimée". Encyclopaedia Britannica.

[19] Bachelard, Gaston (1986). "Lautréamont". Dallas Institute.

[20] Douglas Munro (1978). Alexandre Dumas Père: A Bibliography of Works Translated Into English to 1910. Garland Pub. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-8240-9836-0.

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