1872 in literature

Events

New Books

• At His Gates[?] - Margaret Oliphant[?]
• Beauty and The Beast, and Tales of Home[?] - Bayard Taylor[?]
• Création et Rédemption[?] - Alexandre Dumas, père
• Demons[?] - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Dark Diamonds[?] - Mór Jókai[?]
• The Gold Man[?] - Mór Jókai[?]
• The Golden Lion of Granpere[?] - Anthony Trollope
• Good-bye, sweetheart![?] - Rhoda Broughton
• In a Glass Darkly[?] - Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Maid of Sker[?] - Richard Doddridge Blackmore[?]
• The Parisians[?] - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• Poor Miss Finch[?] - Wilkie Collins
• Poor Pretty Bobby[?] - Rhoda Broughton
• The Runaway[?] - Elizabeth Anna Hart[?]
• Tartarin de Tarascon - Alphonse Daudet
• To the Bitter End[?] - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Under the Greenwood Tree[?] - Thomas Hardy

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)

Deaths

• June 1 - Charles Lever, novelist
• December 23 - Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist

Awards