1869 in literature
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Events
Prose
- October: The first volume of the novel Vingt mille sous les mers lieues (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ) by Jules Verne appears.
- Gustave Flaubert published his last completed novel L' Éducation sentimentale ( The Village Teacher ).
- The second part of Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women appear.
- The final version of the novel War and Peace by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is published.
- Mark Twain published the travel diary The Innocents Abroad ( The Innocents Abroad ) on a cruise in 1867.
- The Styrian " Waldbauernbub " Peter Roseggerhaus published the first stories written by him.
Poetry
- The collection of poems, Les Chants de Maldoror ( The Songs of Maldoror ) is already completed in pressure before, as the poet Lautréamont refuse the publication at the last moment.
Periodicals
- November 4: The first edition of the journal Nature appears. As editor of the physicist Joseph Norman Lockyer is responsible.
Comic
- JANUARY 30: which appears in the journal Vida Fluminense children's story As Aventuras de Nho Quim Impressões ou de Uma Viagem à Corte ( The Adventures of NHO Quim or impressions of a trip to the court ) by Angelo Agostini is considered the first comic of Brazil and one of the oldest in the world.
Others
- Richard Wagner published the 1850 written by him anti-Semitic essay Judaism in music as a booklet.
Born
- June 7: Heinrich Stroebel, German journalist and politician ( † 1944)
- JUNE 26: Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer († 1954)
- July 2: Liane de Pougy, French ballet dancer and writer († 1950)
- July 2: Hjalmar Söderberg, Swedish writer († 1941)
- September 6: Felix Salten, Austrian writer († 1945)
- SEPTEMBER 8: Kinoshita Naoe, Japanese writer and journalist († 1937)
- SEPTEMBER 17: Karl Wolf Kehl, German writer and translator († 1948)
- September 23: Otfrid von Hanstein, German writer († 1959)
- October 3: Robert Kraft, German writer († 1916)
- October 22: Joseph Ettlinger, German journalist and literary historian († 1912)
- December 6: Rudolf Herzog, German journalist and writer († 1943)
- December 18: Karl Dieterich, German linguist and literary historian († 1935)
- December 22: Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet († 1935)
- Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Azerbaijani- Turkish publicist, journalist and Member of Parliament († 1939)
Died
- February 22: William Floto, German playwright (* 1812)
- February 28: Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet, writer and politician (* 1790)