1876 in literature

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The year 1876 in literature involved some significant new books.

New books

• William Harrison Ainsworth
  • Chetwynd Calverley
  • The Leaguer of Lathom
• Louisa May Alcott - Rose in Bloom
• Machado de Assis - Helena
• Rhoda Broughton - Joan
• Robert Buchanan - The Shadow of the Sword
• Wilkie Collins - The Two Destinies
• Alphonse Daudet - Jack
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - A Gentle Creature
• George Eliot - Daniel Deronda
• Benito Pérez Galdós - Doña Perfecta
• John Habberton - Helen's Babies
• Thomas Hardy - The Hand of Ethelberta
• Joris-Karl Huysmans - Martha
• Herman Melville - Clarel
• Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Jules Verne - Michael Strogoff
• Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Three Brides
• Emile Zola - Son Excellence Eugène Rougon

New drama

• Émile Augier - Madame Caverlet
• W. S. Gilbert - Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith
• Henrik Ibsen - Peer Gynt (first performed)

Poetry

Main article: 1876 in poetry

• Lewis Carroll - The Hunting of the Snark

Non-fiction

• Søren Kierkegaard - Judge for Yourselves!
• Robert's Rules of Order

Births

• January 12 - Jack London (d. 1916)
• February 16 - G. M. Trevelyan, historian (d. 1962)
• March 4 - Léon-Paul Fargue, poet (d. 1947)
• April 13 - Sidney Bradshaw Fay (d. 1967)
• April 22 - Ole Edvart Rolvaag, Norwegian-American writer (d. 1931)
• May 10 - Ivan Cankar, dramatist and poet (d. 1918)
• July 12 - Max Jacob, poet (d. 1944)
• September 13 - Sherwood Anderson (d. 1941)
• November 1 - Anne de Noailles, French writer (d. 1933)

Deaths

• January 7 - Juste Olivier, poet (b. 1807)
• January 19 - George Julius Poulett Scrope, political economist (b. 1797)
• February 3 - Gino Capponi, historian (b. 1792)
• February 27 - Afanasy Shchapov, historian (b. 1830)
• March 2 - Johannes Falke, historian (b. 1823)
• May 7 - William Buell Sprague, biographer (b. 1795)
• May 24 - Henry Kingsley, novelist (b. 1830)
• May 26 - František Palacký, historian (b. 1798)
• June 8 - George Sand, French novelist (b. 1804)
• June 27 - Harriet Martineau, philosopher and feminist writer (b. 1802)
• July 14 - James Henry, poet (b. 1798)
• July 24 - John William Kaye, military historian (b. 1814)
• July 25 - Robert Caesar Childers, orientalist (b. 1838)
• October 7 - Georg Heinrich Pertz, historian (b. 1795)
• October 18 - Francis Preston Blair, journalist (b. 1791)
• November 24 - Maria Francesca Rossetti, writer and sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti (b. 1827)
• December 30 - Christian Winther, lyric poet (b. 1796)
• date unknown
  • Catherine Crowe, novelist and children's writer (b. c. 1803)
  • Joshua Hobson, pamphleteer (b. 1810)