See also: 1866 in literature, other events of 1867, 1868 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents

1 Events 2 New books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

New books

• The Castle of Fratta - Ippolito Nievo
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - Mark Twain
• Circe - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Cometh Up as a Flower - Rhoda Broughton
• Jessica's First Prayer - Hesba Stretton
• The Legend of Tyl Ulensp - Charles Theodore Henri de Coster
• The Life and Death of Jason - William Morris
• Manette Salomon - Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
• The Mystery of Orcival - Emile Gaboriau
• Not Wisely, But Too Well - Rhoda Broughton
• Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen
• The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• St. Elmo - Augusta Evans
• Smoke - Ivan Turgenev
• Teresa Raquin - Emile Zola
• Under Two Flags - Ouida

Births

• January 18 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet (d. 1916)
• February 7 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American novelist (d. 1957)
• February 18 - Hedwig Courths-Mahler , novelist (d. 1950)
• May 27 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
• October 31 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist/novelist.(d. 1911)

Deaths

• May 27 - Thomas Bulfinch, American author
• July 31 - Catharine Maria Sedgwick, American novelist
• August 8 - Sarah Austin, historian
• August 31 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet and writer

Awards