1872 in literature
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
Awards
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