1871 in literature

Events

New Books

• The Adventures of Harry Richmond[?] - George Meredith
• The Coming Race[?] - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• The Descent of Man[?] - Charles Darwin
• Erewhon - Samuel Butler
• Eye Openers[?] - Mark Twain
• Fenton's Quest[?] - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• La Fortune des Rougon - Emile Zola
• A Leaf on Vrony's Grave[?] - Johanna Spyri
• Little Men[?] - Louisa May Alcott
• Middlemarch - George Eliot
• Screamers - Mark Twain
• Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
• Watch and Ward[?] - Henry James

Births

• March 27 - Heinrich Mann, narrator, dramatist and essayist (+ 1950)
• June 17 - James Weldon Johnson (+ 1938)
• July 10 - Marcel Proust (+ 1922)
• August 27 - Theodore Dreiser (+ 1945)
• September 27 - Grazia Deledda, (Italian) writer - Nobel prize winner, (1926)
• November 1 - Stephen Crane (+ 1900)

Deaths

• March 17 - Robert Chambers, Scottish writer, publisher

Awards