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The year 1871 in literature involved some significant new books.
Contents |
Events
New books
- Louisa May Alcott - Little Men
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Fenton's Quest
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Coming Race
- Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass
- George Eliot - Middlemarch
- Henry James - Watch and Ward
- George Meredith - The Adventures of Harry Richmond -
- Johanna Spyri - A Leaf on Vrony's Grave
- Mark Twain
- Eye Openers
- Screamers
- Emile Zola - La Fortune des Rougon
Non-fiction
Births
- March 27 - Heinrich Mann, narrator, dramatist and essayist (+ 1950)
- June 17 - James Weldon Johnson (+ 1938)
- July 10 - Marcel Proust (+ 1922)
- August 27 - Theodore Dreiser (+ 1945)
- September 27 - Grazia Deledda, (Italian) writer - Nobel prize winner, (1926)
- November 1 - Stephen Crane (+ 1900)
Deaths
- March 17 - Robert Chambers, Scottish writer, publisher
