1870 in literature

Events

New Books

• The Caged Lion[?] - Charlotte Mary Yonge
• The Eternal Husband[?] - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Lothair - Benjamin Disraeli
• Man and Wife[?] - Wilkie Collins
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood[?] - Charles Dickens
• An Old Fashioned Girl[?] - Louisa May Alcott
• Red as a rose is she[?] - Rhoda Broughton
• The Story of a Bad Boy[?] - Thomas Bailey Aldrich[?]
• The Terrible Sights of London[?] - Thomas Archer[?]
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
• The Vicar of Bullhampton[?] - Anthony Trollope

Births

• March 5 - Frank Norris (+ 1902)
• June 25 - Erskine Childers[?] (+ 1922)
• July 27 - Hilaire Beloc[?] (+ 1953)
• December 18 - Saki (+ 1916)

Deaths

• June 9 - Charles Dickens, British novelist
• June 11 - William Gilmore Simms[?], author
• July 20 - Jules de Goncourt[?], Prix Goncourt
• November 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer
• December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, père, author

Awards