1867 in literature

The year 1867 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

New books

• Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Circe
• Rhoda Broughton
• Cometh Up as a Flower
• Not Wisely, But Too Well
• Charles Theodore Henri de Coster - The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Possessed
• Augusta Evans - St. Elmo
• Emile Gaboriau - The Mystery of Orcival
• Edmond & Jules de Goncourt - Manette Salomon
• Thomas Hardy - The Poor Man and the Lady (Hardy's first novel - unpublished)
• William Morris - The Life and Death of Jason
• Ippolito Nievo - The Castle of Fratta
• Ouida - Under Two Flags
• Hesba Stretton - Jessica's First Prayer
• Anthony Trollope - The Last Chronicle of Barsetshire
• Mark Twain - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• Ivan Turgenev - Smoke
• Emile Zola - Thérèse Raquin

New drama

• Henrik Ibsen - Peer Gynt

New poetry

• Henry Timrod - "Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867"

Non-fiction

• Walter Bagehot - The English Constitution
• William Thomson - Treatise on Natural Philosophy

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 Baudelaire, French poet and writer
• 7 October - Henry Timrod, Confederate poet

Awards