1862 in literature

See also: 1861 in literature, other events of 1862, 1863 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• November 26 – Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.

New books

• David Elginbrod – George MacDonald
• Dominique – Eugène Fromentin
• Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
• Lady Audley's Secret – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
• No Name – Wilkie Collins
• Ravenshoe – Henry Kingsley
• Salammbo – Gustave Flaubert
• Sister Philomene – Edmond & Jules de Goncourt

Births

• January 24 – Edith Wharton (+ 1937)
• August 29 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright (+ 1949)
• October 13 – Mary Kingsley, travel writer (+ 1900)
• December 8 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (+ 1921)

Deaths

• May 6 – Henry David Thoreau

Awards