1866 in literature

See also: 1865 in literature, other events of 1866, 1867 in literature, list of years 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
• Les Travailleurs de la Mer - 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