1867 in literature

The year 1867 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * Three new American periodicals for children &mdash; Oliver Optic's Magazine, Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly, and the Riverside Magazine for Young People &mdash; all begin publishing.

New books

 * 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
 * Augusta Evans - St. Elmo
 * Émile 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 * Thomas Hardy - The Poor Man and the Lady (Hardy's first novel - unpublished)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 (first published)
 * Thomas William Robertson - Caste

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 8 - Margarete Böhme, German novelist (d. 1939)
 * May 27 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
 * October 31 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and 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