1872 in literature
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See also: 1871 in literature, other events of 1872, 1873 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
[edit] New books
- Richard Doddridge Blackmore - The Maid of Sker
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - To the Bitter End
- Rhoda Broughton
- Samuel Butler - Erewhon
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Parisians
- Wilkie Collins - Poor Miss Finch
- Alphonse Daudet - Tartarin de Tarascon
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - Demons
- Alexandre Dumas, père - Création et Rédemption
- Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree
- Elizabeth Anna Hart - The Runaway
- Mór Jókai
- Sheridan Le Fanu -
- Margaret Oliphant - At His Gates
- Bayard Taylor - Beauty and The Beast, and Tales of Home
- Anthony Trollope - The Golden Lion of Granpere
- Emile zola - La Curee (1871-72)
[edit] New drama
[edit] Births
- January 31 - Zane Grey (+ 1939)
- May 31 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist/illustrator (+ 1944)
- June 27 - Paul Laurence Dunbar (+ 1906)
- August 24 - Max Beerbohm (+ 1956)
[edit] Deaths
- January 21 - Franz Grillparzer, poet and dramatist
- March 4- Johannes Carsten Hauch, poet
- March 10 - Giuseppe Mazzini, philosopher
- April 1 - Frederick Maurice, theologian
- April 20 - Ljudevit Gaj, linguist and journalist
- May 13 - Moritz Hartmann, poet
- June 1 - Charles Lever, novelist
- August 8 - Heinrich Abeken, theologian
- October 21 - Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, historian
- November 16 - William Gilham, military writer
- December 23 - Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist
