The year 1866 in literature involved some significant new books.
[edit] Events
- Ludwig Anzengruber returns to Vienna after working as a travelling actor.
- Luigi Capuana becomes theatre critic for Italian newspaper The Nation.
- Two new American magazines for children, The Little Corporal and Children's Hour, publish their first issues.
[edit] New books
[edit] New drama
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
[edit] Births
- January 29 - Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author, (+ 1944)
- February 24 - Cyril Arthur Pearson, publisher (+ 1921)
- July 28 - Beatrix Potter, Children's author (+ 1943)
- May 2 - Paul Kretschmer, linguist (+ 1956)
- September 7 - Tristan Bernard, writer (+ 1947)
- August 31 - Elizabeth von Arnim, novelist (+ 1941)
- September 21 - H. G. Wells, science fiction and romantic novelist (+ 1946)
- November 21 - Dusé Mohamed Ali, political activist, journalist and dramatist (+ 1945)
- date unknown - Dora Sigerson Shorter, poet (+ 1918)
[edit] Deaths
- January 23 - Thomas Love Peacock, satirist
- February 2 - Francois Xavier Garneau, poet and historian
- March 6 - William Whewell, philosopher and theologian
- March 29 - John Keble, poet
- June 16 - Joseph Méry, satirist and librettist
- August 1 - Luigi Carlo Farini, historian
- August 12 - Philip Stanhope Worsley, poet
- September 10 - Charles Maclaren, first editor of The Scotsman
- September 14 - Léon Gozlan, novelist and dramatist
- September 19 - Christian Hermann Weisse, philosopher
[edit] Awards