1864 in literature

See also: 1863 in literature, other events of 1864, 1865 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New books

• Apologia Pro Vita Sua – John Henry Cardinal Newman
• Brother Jacob – George Eliot
• Chevalier Destouches  – Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
• Clara Vaughan – Richard Doddridge Blackmore
• Dramatis Personae (Poetry) – Robert Browning
• Enoch Arden – Alfred Tennyson
• Henry Dunbar: the Story of an Outcast – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• A Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
• Notes from The Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Renée Mauperin – Edmond de Goncourt & Jules de Goncourt
• Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
• Wives and Daughters – Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Wylder's Hand – Sheridan Le Fanu

Births

• February 14 – Israel Zangwill, English novelist and playwright, (d. 1926)

Deaths

• March 16 – Robert Smith Surtees, writer

Awards