1863 in literature

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The year 1863 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.

Events

June 13 - Samuel Butler's dystopian article "Darwin among the Machines" is published (as by "Cellarius") in The Press newspaper in Christchurch, New Zealand; it will be incorporated into his novel Erewhon (1872).
December 29 - An estimated 7000 people attend the funeral of William Makepeace Thackeray at Kensington Gardens, and nearly 2000 are at his burial in Kensal Green Cemetery.^[1]
Establishment in Iași of the Romanian Junimea literary society, a group which will exercise a major influence on Romanian culture until the 1910s.

Lizzie Doten - Poems from the Inner Life (alleged to have been dictated by the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe)^[4]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Tales of a Wayside Inn, including "Paul Revere's Ride"

February 9 - Anthony Hope, adventure novelist (died 1933)
March 3 - Arthur Machen, novelist and short story writer (died 1947)
March 12 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet (died 1938)
April 9 - Henry De Vere Stacpoole, novelist (died 1951)
April 29
- Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet (died 1933)
- William Randolph Hearst, newspaper proprietor (died 1951)
August 7 - Gene Stratton Porter, American novelist and naturalist (died 1924)
September 8 - W. W. Jacobs, short story writer (died 1943)
September 22 - Ferenc Herczeg, dramatist (died 1954)
November 1 - Arthur Morrison, writer (died 1945)
November 21 - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, novelist (died 1944)
December 16 - George Santayana, novelist and poet (died 1952)

May 13 - August Hahn, German Protestant theologian (born 1792)
July 3 - William Barksdale, Confederate journalist and general (born 1821; killed in action at the Battle of Gettysburg)"^[6]
July 10 - Clement Clarke Moore, "Night Before Christmas" poet (born 1779)
September 17 - Alfred de Vigny, poet, dramatist and novelist (born 1797)
September 20 - Jacob Grimm, philologist and fairy-tale author (born 1785)
October 6 - Frances Trollope, novelist (born 1779)
October 8 - Richard Whately, theologian (born 1787)
December 13 - Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and daramatist (born 1813)
December 17 - Émile Saisset, philosopher (born 1814)
December 24 - William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (born 1811; stroke)

^ Victorian Web: Grave of William Makepeace Thackeray. Accessed 8 March 2013
^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 283–284. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Leavis, Q.D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^ Poems from the Inner Life by Lizzie Doten. Accessed 8 March 2013
^ ^a ^b Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1863". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
^ William Barksdale biography, Sons of Confederate Veterans

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