1870 in literature
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See also: 1869 in literature, other events of 1870, 1871 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- The Caged Lion - Charlotte Mary Yonge
- The Eternal Husband - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Lothair - Benjamin Disraeli
- Man and Wife - Wilkie Collins
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens
- An Old Fashioned Girl - Louisa May Alcott
- Red as a rose is she - Rhoda Broughton
- The Story of a Bad Boy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- The Terrible Sights of London - Thomas Archer
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
- The Vicar of Bullhampton - Anthony Trollope
Births
- March 5 - Frank Norris (d. 1902)
- June 25 - Erskine Childers (d. 1922)
- July 27 - Hilaire Belloc (d. 1953)
- December 18 - Saki (d. 1916)
Deaths
- June 9 - Charles Dickens, British novelist
- June 11 - William Gilmore Simms, author
- July 20 - Jules de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt
- September 12 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author and explorer
- November 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer
- December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, père, author
