1872 in literature

See also: 1871 in literature, other events of 1872, 1873 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• At His Gates - Margaret Oliphant
• Beauty and The Beast, and Tales of Home - Bayard Taylor
• Création et Rédemption - Alexandre Dumas, père
• Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Erewhon - Samuel Butler
• The Dark Diamonds - Mór Jókai
• The Gold Man - Mór Jókai
• The Golden Lion of Granpere - Anthony Trollope
• Good-bye, sweetheart! - Rhoda Broughton
• In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Maid of Sker - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
• The Parisians - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• Poor Miss Finch - Wilkie Collins
• Poor Pretty Bobby - Rhoda Broughton
• The Runaway - Elizabeth Anna Hart
• Tartarin de Tarascon - Alphonse Daudet
• To the Bitter End - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy

Births

• January 31 - Zane Grey (+ 1939)
• May 31 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist/illustrator (+ 1944)
• June 27 - Paul Laurence Dunbar (+ 1906)
• August 24 - Max Beerbohm (+ 1956)

Deaths

• June 1 - Charles Lever, novelist
• December 23 - Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist

Awards