1866 in literature 

Events

New Books

• L'Affaire Clemenceau[?] - Alexandre Dumas, fils
• Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood[?] - George MacDonald
• Armadale[?] - Wilkie Collins
• Chandos[?] - Ouida
• Cradock Nowell[?] - Richard Doddridge Blackmore[?]
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Felix Holt, The Radical[?] - George Eliot
• The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Hereward the Wake - Charles Kingsley
• Kapalkundala[?] - Bankim Chatterjee[?]
• The Lerouge Affair[?] - Emile Gaboriau
• Miss Ravenel's Conversion[?] - John William De Forest[?]
• The Negro in the American Rebellion[?] - William Wells Brown[?]
• Surry of Eagle's-Nest[?] - John Esten Cooke[?]
• The Toilers of the Sea[?] - Victor Hugo

Births

• January 29 - Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author, (+ 1944)
• July 28 - Beatrix Potter, Children's author (+ 1943)
• September 7 - Tristan Bernard, writer (+ 1947)
• September 21 - H. G. Wells, science fiction novelist (+ 1946)

Deaths

Awards

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