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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), Ottsy i dety, 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 are published in Brussels followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes following on May 15.
• April 6 – Two months after joining the staff of General William Babcock Hazen, Ambrose Bierce participates in the Battle of Shiloh, later the subject of a memoir.^[1] Among those on the opposite side is future journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who will also record his experiences.^[2]
• June – Nikolai Chernyshevsky is imprisoned in Saint Petersburg and begins his novel What Is To Be Done?^[3]
• June 4 – Henry Morton Stanley, now a "Galvanized Yankee", joins the Union Army; he is discharged 18 days later because of illness.^[4]
• 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.^[5]
• 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 boat trip on The Isis from Oxford to Godstow. The story becomes the manuscript Alice's Adventures Underground and is published in 1865 as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.^[6]

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.^[7]
• November 29 – Serialization of The Notting Hill Mystery by "Charles Felix" (probably Charles Warren Adams) commences in Once A Week (London); it is considered the first full-length detective novel in English.^[8][9]
• December – Louisa May Alcott becomes a nurse at the Union hospital in Georgetown, D.C.
• December 24 – William Dean Howells marries Elinor Mead at the American embassy in Paris.
• date unknown
  • 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

Fiction

• 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
• Elizabeth Stoddard – The Morgesons
• William Makepeace Thackeray – The Adventures of Philip
• Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy – Prince Serebrenni (Князь Серебряный)
• Anthony Trollope – Orley Farm (publication completed)
• Ivan Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
• Mrs. Henry Wood – The Channings

Children and young people

• Frances Freeling Broderip – Tale of the Toys, Told by Themselves
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• Leo Tolstoy – "The School at Yasnaya Polyana"

Births

• January 24 – Edith Wharton, American novelist (died 1937)
• 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)
• 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 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)

Deaths

• January 11 – Jean Philibert Damiron, French philosopher (born 1794)
• February 24 – Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Danish novelist and poet (born 1789)
• 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)^[10]

Awards

• Gaisford Prize – Robert William Raper (Trinity) for comic iambic verse: Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II, Act 4, Sc. 3^[11]
• Newdigate Prize – Arthur C. Auchmuty, "Julian the Apostate"

References

1. Cozzens, Peter (April 1996). "The Tormenting Flame: What Ambrose Bierce Saw in a Fire-Swept Thicket at Shiloh Haunted Him for the rest of his Life". Civil War Times Illustrated. XXXV (1): 44–54.
2. Arnold, James (1998). Shiloh 1862 – the death of innocence. London: Osprey Publishing. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-85532-606-4.
3. Simpkin, John (1997–2013). "Nikolai Chernyshevsky". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
4. Gallop, Alan (2004). Mr Stanley, I presume – the life and explorations of Henry Morton Stanley. Stroud: Sutton. p. 61. ISBN 978-0750930932.
5. Spittles, Brian (1993). George Eliot: Godless Woman. Basingstoke; London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 0-333-57218-1.
6. Richard Cavendish: The Alice in Wonderland story first told. History Today Vol. 62/7 Retrieved 1 May 2016.
7. Davies, Mark J. (2010). Alice in Waterland: Lewis Carroll and the River Thames in Oxford. Oxford: Signal Books. ISBN 978-1904955726.
8. Collins, Paul (2011-01-07). "Before Hercule or Sherlock, There Was Ralph". The New York Times Book Review.
9. Symons, Julian (1972). Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel. London: Faber and Faber. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-571-09465-3. There is no doubt that the first detective novel, preceding Collins and Gaboriau, was The Notting Hill Mystery.
10. Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1863. p. 694.
11. Raper, Robert W. (1862). Gaisford Prize: Greek Iambics Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, July 2, MDCCCLXII Oxford: T. and G. Shrimpton, online at books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-08-14.