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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1862.

Events

  • February – Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons (Отцы и дети – old spelling Отцы и дѣти, , literally "Fathers and Children") is published by Russkiy Vestnik in Moscow.
  • March 30 or 31 – The first two volumes of Victor Hugo's epic historical novel Les Misérables appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October.
  • April 6 – Two months after joining the staff of General William Babcock Hazen, Ambrose Bierce joins in the Battle of Shiloh, later the subject of a memoir. Among those on the opposite side is the future journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who will also record his experiences.
  • April 28 – Thomas Hardy becomes an assistant to architect Arthur Blomfield.
  • June – Nikolai Chernyshevsky is imprisoned in Saint Petersburg and begins his novel What Is To Be Done?
  • June 4 – Henry Morton Stanley, now a "Galvanized Yankee", joins the Union Army; he is discharged 18 days later because of illness.
  • July – George Eliot's historical novel Romola begins serialization in Cornhill Magazine, the first time she has published a full-length book in this format. George Murray Smith of the publishers Smith, Elder & Co. has agreed a £7,000 advance for it.
  • July 1 – Moscow's first free public library opens as The Library of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumiantsev Museum, predecessor of the Russian State Library.
  • July 4 – Charles Dodgson (better known as by his later pseudonym Lewis Carroll) extemporises a story for 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a rowing trip on The Isis from Oxford to Godstow. The story becomes a manuscript titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground and is published in 1865 as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

thumb|Illustration from the cover of [[Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems, by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti]]

  • September 23 – Leo Tolstoy marries Sophia (Sonya) Andreevna Behrs, 16 years his junior, in Moscow, having given her a diary detailing his previous sexual relations.
  • November 26 – Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell.
  • November 29 – Serialization of The Notting Hill Mystery by "Charles Felix" (probably Charles Warren Adams) commences in Once A Week (London), with illustrations by George du Maurier; it is seen as the first full-length detective novel in English.
  • December – Louisa May Alcott becomes a nurse at the Union hospital in Georgetown
  • December 24 – William Dean Howells marries Elinor Mead at the American Embassy in Paris.

Uncertain dates

  • James Russell Lowell begins writing for The North American Review.
  • Karl Heinrich Ulrichs begins writing about homosexuality under the pseudonym of "Numa Numantius".

New books

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Fiction

  • William Harrison Ainsworth – The Lord Mayor of London
  • José de Alencar – Lucíola
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Lady Audley's Secret
  • Camilo Castelo Branco – Amor de Perdição
  • Wilkie Collins – No Name
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky – The House of the Dead (‹Записки из Мёртвого дома›, Zapiski iz Myortvogo doma, book publication)
  • George Eliot – Romola (serialization)
  • Gustave Flaubert – Salammbo
  • Eugène Fromentin – Dominique
  • The Goncourt brothers (Edmond and Jules de Goncourt) – Sister Philomene (Sœur Philomène)
  • Victor Hugo – Les Misérables
  • Henry Kingsley – Ravenshoe
  • George MacDonald – David Elginbrod
  • Watts Phillips – The Honour of the Family
  • Fritz Reuter – From My Farming Days
  • John Skelton – Thalatta, or the Great Commoner
  • Elizabeth Drew Stoddard – The Morgesons
  • William Makepeace Thackeray – The Adventures of Philip
  • Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy – Prince Serebrenni (‹Князь Серебряный›)
  • Anthony Trollope
  • Orley Farm (publication completed)
  • The Small House at Allington (serialization begins)
  • Ivan Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
  • Mrs. Henry Wood – The Channings

Children and young people

  • Frances Freeling Broderip – Tale of the Toys, Told by Themselves
  • Catherine Crowe – The Adventures of a Monkey
  • F. W. Farrar – St. Winifred's or The World of School
  • Henrietta Keddie (as Sarah Tytler) – Papers for Thoughtful Girls, with illustrative sketches of some girls' lives
  • Charlotte Yonge
  • Countess Kate
  • The Stokesley Secret

Drama

  • Émile Augier – Le Fils de Giboyer
  • María Bibiana Benítez – La Cruz del Morro (The Cross of El Morro)
  • Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson – Sigurd Slembe (Sigurd the Bastard, trilogy, published)
  • Henrik Ibsen – Love's Comedy (Kjærlighedens Komedie, first published)
  • Watts Phillips – His Last Victory
  • Edmund Yates – Invitations

Poetry

  • Pavlo Chubynsky – "Shche ne vmerla Ukraina" (Ukraine's glory has not perished, later the text of the Ukrainian national anthem)
  • Henrik Ibsen – Terje Vigen
  • George Meredith – Modern Love
  • Christina Rossetti – Goblin Market and other poems

Non-fiction

  • John Hill Burton – The Book-Hunter
  • Thomas De Quincey – Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets
  • John William Draper – The History of the Intellectual Development of Europe
  • Theodor Fontane – Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg, volume 1, Die Grafschaft Ruppin
  • Julia Kavanagh
  • English Women of Letters
  • French Women of Letters
  • George Perkins Marsh – The Origin and History of the English Language
  • John Ruskin – Unto This Last
  • Elizabeth Missing Sewell – Impressions of Rome, Florence, and Turin
  • John Skelton – Nugæ Criticæ
  • Samuel Smiles – Lives of the Engineers (5 volumes)
  • Leo Tolstoy – "The School at Yasnaya Polyana"

Births

  • January 24 – Edith Wharton, American novelist (died 1937)
  • February 17 – Mori Ōgai (森 鷗外), Japanese army surgeon, poet, translator and realist fiction writer (died 1922)
  • April 11 – Lurana W. Sheldon, American author and newspaper editor (died 1945)
  • May 1 – Marcel Prévost, French dramatist (died 1941)
  • May 9 – Hugh Stowell Scott (Henry Seton Merriman), English novelist (died 1903)
  • May 15 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist and novelist (died 1931)
  • June 6 – Henry Newbolt, English poet (died 1938)
  • June 18 – Carolyn Wells, American novelist and poet (died 1942)
  • July 16 – Ida B. Wells, American journalist and novelist (died 1931)
  • August 1 – Montague Rhodes James, English scholar and short story writer (died 1936)
  • August 2 – Paul Bujor, Romanian politician, zoologist and short story writer (died 1952)
  • August 6 – Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, English historian (died 1932)
  • August 21 – Emilio Salgari, Italian adventure novelist (died 1911)
  • August 29 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright (died 1949)
  • September 2 – Okakura Kakuzō (岡倉 覚三), Japanese writer on the arts (died 1913)
  • September 27 – Francis Adams, Anglo-Australian poet, novelist and dramatist (died 1893)
  • October 13 – Mary Kingsley, English travel writer (died 1900)
  • November 15 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, novelist and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1946)
  • December 8 – Georges Feydeau, French farceur (died 1921)
  • December 16 – John Fox, Jr., American novelist and journalist (died 1919)
  • December 23 – Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (died 1935)
  • date unknown — Jessie King, Scottish essayist, poet, journalist (year of death unknown)

Deaths

  • January 11 – Jean Philibert Damiron, French philosopher (born 1794)
  • February 24 – Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Danish novelist and poet (born 1789)
  • February 27 (February 16 O.S.) – Constantin Sion, Moldavian polemicist, genealogist and literary forger (born 1795)
  • April 6 – Fitz James O'Brien, Irish-American science fiction pioneer (born 1828)
  • May 6 – Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher (born 1817)
  • May 25 – Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist (born 1801)
  • August 27 – Thomas Jefferson Hogg, English biographer (born 1792)
  • November 26 – Julia Pardoe, English novelist and historian (born 1806)
  • November 30 – James Sheridan Knowles, Irish dramatist and actor (born 1784)
  • December 17 – Katherine Thomson, writing as Grace Wharton, English novelist and historian (born 1797)

Awards

  • Gaisford Prize – Robert William Raper (Trinity) for comic iambic verse: Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II, Act 4, Sc. 3
  • Newdigate Prize – Arthur C. Auchmuty, "Julian the Apostate"

References