1865 in literature

See also: 1864 in literature, other events of 1865, 1866 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• July 4 – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published.
• November 18 – Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.

New books

• Alec Forbes of Howglen – George MacDonald
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
• From the Earth to the Moon – Jules Verne
• Germinie Lacerteux – Edmond de Goncourt
• Guy Deverell – Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Humbugs of the World – P. T. Barnum
• Iracema – José de Alencar
• The Life of Charlotte Bronte – Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Lighthouse – RM Ballantyne
• Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds – Robert Smith Surtees
• Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens

Births

• March 15 – Edith Maude Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (+ 1914)
• December 30 – Rudyard Kipling (+ 1936)
• June 13 – William Butler Yeats (+ 1939)

Deaths

• February 25 – Otto Ludwig, German novelist/playwright
• November 12 – Elizabeth Gaskell, writer

Awards