1877 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1877.

Events

July – The ending of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is published in Russkiy vestnik.^[1]
October 15 – Edward L. Wheeler's first story featuring Deadwood Dick, set on the American frontier, opens the first number of Beadle's Half-Dime Library, published in New York.^[2]
November 14 – Henrik Ibsen's first contemporary realist drama The Pillars of Society is premièred at the Odense Teater (having been first published on October 11 in Copenhagen).^[3]
November 24 – Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty, his grooms and companions: the autobiography of a horse "translated from the equine" is published by Jarrolds of Norwich in England. Her only book, published five months before her death arising from long-standing illness, it rapidly establishes its position as an all-time best-seller, going on to sell fifty million copies^[4] and becoming the sixth best seller in the English language.^[5]
December 30 – Swedish dramatist August Strindberg marries his mistress, the divorced actress Siri von Essen, a member of the Finnish-Swedish minor nobility.
Mitchell Library established in Glasgow.
Robert Louis Stevenson publishes the first of the stories that will make up the New Arabian Nights.

Helena Blavatsky – Isis Unveiled
Amelia Edwards – A Thousand Miles up the Nile
Kenneth Mackenzie – Royal Masonic Cyclopedia
Lewis H. Morgan – Ancient Society
Shen Fu (沈復) – Six Records of a Floating Life (autobiography; first printed edition)

January 4 – Sextil Pușcariu, Romanian linguist, philologist and journalist (died 1948)
February 7 – Alfred Williams, English "hammerman poet" (died 1930)
April 29 – Henri Stahl, Romanian historian, short story writer, memoirist and stenographer (died 1942)
June 11 – Renée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn, English-born French-language Symbolist poet (died 1909)
July 2 – Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (died 1962)
August 27 – Lloyd C. Douglas, American novelist and pastor (died 1951)
September 1 – Rex Beach, American novelist and playwright (died 1949)
September 9 – James Agate, English diarist and critic (died 1947)
Unknown date – Donald Maxwell, English travel writer and illustrator (died 1936)

↑ Stenbock-Fermor, Elizabeth (1975). The Architecture of Anna Karenina. B.R. Grüner. ISBN 1588116751.
↑ Johannsen, Albert (1950). "Wheeler, Edward L.". The House of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels: the story of a vanished literature. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Libraries. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
↑ Hanssen, Jens-Morten (2001-08-10). "Facts about Pillars of Society". Ibsen.net. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
↑ "Fifty million copies of Black Beauty have been sold in the years since Anna Sewell's publisher paid her £20 for the story". The Times. London. 29 February 2008.
↑ Wells, E. B.; Grimshaw, A., eds. (1989). The annotated "Black Beauty".

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