1872 in literature
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See also: 1871 in literature, other events of 1872, 1873 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- At His Gates - Margaret Oliphant
- Beauty and The Beast, and Tales of Home - Bayard Taylor
- Création et Rédemption - Alexandre Dumas, père
- Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Erewhon - Samuel Butler
- The Dark Diamonds - Mór Jókai
- The Gold Man - Mór Jókai
- The Golden Lion of Granpere - Anthony Trollope
- Good-bye, sweetheart! - Rhoda Broughton
- In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Maid of Sker - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- The Parisians - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
- Poor Miss Finch - Wilkie Collins
- Poor Pretty Bobby - Rhoda Broughton
- The Runaway - Elizabeth Anna Hart
- Tartarin de Tarascon - Alphonse Daudet
- To the Bitter End - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy
Births
- January 31 - Zane Grey (+ 1939)
- May 31 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist/illustrator (+ 1944)
- June 27 - Paul Laurence Dunbar (+ 1906)
- August 24 - Max Beerbohm (+ 1956)
Deaths
- June 1 - Charles Lever, novelist
- December 23 - Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist
