1867 in literature

Events

• By February – The first blue plaque is erected in London by the Society of Arts on the birthplace of poet Lord Byron.
• October 3 – Anthony Trollope resigns from a senior administrative position in the British General Post Office, to write full-time.
• November – The Leipzig publisher Reclam launches its Universal-Bibliothek series of cheap reprints with an edition of Goethe's Faust following the lifting of copyright restrictions in the new North German Confederation for authors dead for more than 30 years.
• December 2 – Charles Dickens begins a U.S. reading tour in New York City.
• December – After publication of Leo Tolstoy's 1805, an early version of War and Peace, concludes in The Russian Messenger, an advertisement appears for the revised complete novel.
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• *The première of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's historical drama The Death of Ivan the Terrible is held at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, the first of a trilogy.
• *Mrs. Henry Wood purchases and begins editing the U.K. fiction magazine Argosy.
• *Three American periodicals for children – Oliver Optic's Magazine, Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly, and the Riverside Magazine for Young People – are launched.

  New books

Fiction

• Horatio Alger, Jr. – Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Circe
• Rhoda Broughton
• *Cometh Up as a Flower
• *Not Wisely, But Too Well
• Charles Theodore Henri de Coster – The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak
• John William De Forest – Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty
• Anna Hanson Dorsey – Coaina: The Rose of the Algonquins
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The Gambler
• Augusta Jane Evans – St. Elmo
• Émile Gaboriau – The Mystery of Orcival
• Goncourt brothers – Manette Salomon
• Jorge Isaacs – María
• Ippolito Nievo – Le confessioni di un ottagenario
• Caroline Norton – Old Sir Douglas
• Ouida – Under Two Flags
• Anthony Trollope
• *The Last Chronicle of Barset
• *Phineas Finn
• Ivan Turgenev – Smoke
• Mark Twain – The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• Émile Zola – Thérèse Raquin

  Children and young people

• Ada Cambridge – Little Jenny
• George Manville Fenn – Hollowdell Grange
• G. A. Henty – A Search for a Secret
• Hesba Stretton – Jessica's First Prayer

  Drama

• Erckmann-Chatrian – Le Juif Polonais
• W. S. Gilbert – Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren
• Henrik Ibsen – Peer Gynt
• Navalram Pandya – Bhatnu Bhopalu
• Thomas William Robertson – Caste

  Poetry

• Matthew Arnold – New Poems, including "Dover Beach"
• William Morris – The Life and Death of Jason
• Jan Neruda – Knihy veršů
• Piet Paaltjens – Snikken en grimlachjes: poëzie uit den studententijd
• Henry Timrod – ""

  Non-fiction

• Walter Bagehot – The English Constitution
• Augusta Theodosia Drane – Christian Schools and Scholars
• Edward Augustus Freeman – The History of the Norman Conquest of England
• William Carew Hazlitt – Handbook to the Popular, Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain, from the Invention of Printing to the Restoration
• Francis Marrash – Rihlat Baris
• Karl Marx – Das Kapital
• Henry Maudsley – The Physiology and Pathology of Mind
• Marius Nygaard – Kortfattet Fremstilling af det norske Landsmaals Grammatik
• William Makepeace Thackeray – The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: a series of lectures
• William Thomson – Treatise on Natural Philosophy

  Births

• January 18 – Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet
• February 7 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American novelist
• February 18 – Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German novelist
• February 27 – George Diamandy, Romanian journalist, dramatist, and political figure
• May 1 – Harry Leon Wilson, American author and playwright
• May 7 – Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel laureate
• May 8 – Margarete Böhme, German novelist
• May 27 – Arnold Bennett, English novelist
• June 8 – Dagny Juel, Norwegian writer
• August 9 – H. E. Marshall, Scottish history writer for children
• August 23 – Marcel Schwob, French writer
• September 25 – Katharine Glasier, English writer and socialist
• October 2 – Timrava, Slovak novelist, short story writer and playwright
• October 31 – David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist
• November 1 – Mulshankar Mulani, Gujarati playwright
• December 24 – Tevfik Fikret, Ottoman Turkish poet and journalist.
• December 25 – Alfred Kempner, German-Jewish theatre critic

  Deaths

• April 12 – Robert Bell, British man of letters
• May 27 – Thomas Bulfinch, American collector of myths and legends
• July 31 – Catharine Sedgwick, American novelist
• August 8 – Sarah Austin, English editor and translator
• August 31 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet, critic and translator
• October 7 – Henry Timrod, American poet
• October 29 – Frederick Chamier, English novelist and Royal Navy captain
• November 19 – Fitz-Greene Halleck, American poet
• unknown date – Charlotte Barton, Australian children's author

  Awards

• Newdigate Prize – Robert Campbell Moberly