1869 in literature
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See also: 1868 in literature, other events of 1869, 1870 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- Alone in London - Hesba Stretton
- The Chaplet of Pearls - Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Culture and Anarchy -- Matthew Arnold
- Erling the Bold - RM Ballantyne
- Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott
- The Knight of Sainte-Hermine -- Alexandre Dumas, père
- L'Homme Qui Rit - Victor Hugo
- The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain
- Leaves from Australian Forests (poetry) - Henry Kendall
- Lorna Doone - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Luck and Pluck - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Madame Gervaisais - Edmond de Goncourt & Jules de Goncourt
- Monsieur Lecocq - Emile Gaboriau
- Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
- Romain Kalbris - Hector Malot
- A Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
- Struggles and Triumphs - P. T. Barnum
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- The Wyvern Mystery - Sheridan Le Fanu
Births
- March 14 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (+ 1951)
- July 29 - Booth Tarkington (+ 1946)
- August 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar (+ 1943)
- November 22 - André Gide, author (+ 1951)
- December 30 - Stephen Leacock
Deaths
- January 20 - Carl Wilhelm Göttling, classical commentator
- February 28 - Alphonse de Lamartine, poet
- July 19 - Victor Aimé Huber, travel writer and literary historian
- October 18 - Simon Jenko, poet
- November 3 - Andreas Kalvos, dramatist
