1870 in literature

See also: 1869 in literature, other events of 1870, 1871 in literature, list of years in literature.

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

Awards