1863 in literature
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See also: 1862 in literature, other events of 1863, 1864 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- First reunions of the Romanian Junimea literary society, a group which was to exercise a major influence on Romanian culture until the 1910s.
[edit] New books
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Aurora Floyd
- Eleanor's Victory
- George Eliot - Romola
- Elizabeth Gaskell - Sylvia's Lovers
- Theophile Gauthier - Capitan Fracassa
- Edward Everett Hale - The Man Without a Country
- Mary Jane Holmes - Marian Grey
- Julia Kavanagh - Queen Mab
- Charles Kingsley - The Water-Babies
- Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Churchyard
- Leo Tolstoy - The Cossacks
- John Townsend Trowbridge - Cudjo's Cave
- Jules Verne - Five Weeks in a Balloon
[edit] New drama
- W. S. Gilbert - Uncle Baby
[edit] Poetry
- Lizzie Doten - Poems from the Inner Life (alleged to have been dictated by the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Tales of a Wayside Inn, including "Paul Revere's Ride"
[edit] Non-fiction
- William Barnes - Glossary of Dorset Dialect
- William Wells Brown - The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements
- Francis James Child - Observations on the Language of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Charles Lyell - Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man
- Ernest Renan - The Life of Jesus
[edit] Births
- February 9 - Anthony Hope, adventure novelist
- March 3 - Arthur Machen, novelist and short story writer
- March 12 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet
- April 9 - Henry De Vere Stacpoole, novelist
- April 29
- Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet
- William Randolph Hearst, newspaper proprietor
- August 7 - Gene Stratton Porter, American novelist and naturalist
- September 8 - W. W. Jacobs, short story writer
- September 22 - Ferenc Herczeg, dramatist
- November 1 - Arthur Morrison
- November 21 - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, novelist
[edit] Deaths
- May 13 - August Hahn, theologian
- July 3 - William Barksdale, Confederate journalist and general
- July 10 - Clement Clarke Moore, poet
- September 17 - Alfred de Vigny, poet
- September 20 - Jacob Grimm, fairy-tale author
- October 6 - Frances Trollope, novelist
- October 8 - Richard Whately, theologian
- December 17 - Émile Saisset, philosopher
- December 24 - William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist
