1869 in literature

Events

New Books

• Alone in London[?] - Hesba Stretton[?]
• The Chaplet of Pearls[?] - Charlotte Mary Yonge
• Erling the Bold[?] - RM Ballantyne
• Good Wives[?] - Louisa May Alcott
• The Innocents Abroad[?] - Mark Twain
• Leaves from Australian Forests[?] (poetry) - Henry Kendall
• Lorna Doone - Richard Doddridge Blackmore[?]
• Madame Gervaisais[?] - Edmond de Goncourt & Jules de Goncourt[?]
• Monsieur Lecocq[?] - Emile Gaboriau
• Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
• Romain Kalbris[?] - Hector Malot[?]
• A Sentimental Education[?] - Gustave Flaubert
• Struggles and Triumphs[?] - P. T. Barnum
• War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
• The Wyvern Mystery[?] - Sheridan Le Fanu

Births

• March 14 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (+ 1951)
• July 29 - Booth Tarkington (+ 1946)
• August 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar (+ 1943)
• November 22 - André Gide, author (+ 1951)

Deaths

Awards