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The year 1876 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

New books

• William Harrison Ainsworth
  • Chetwynd Calverley
  • The Leaguer of Lathom
• Louisa May Alcott - Rose in Bloom
• Machado de Assis - Helena
• Rhoda Broughton - Joan
• Robert Buchanan - The Shadow of the Sword
• Wilkie Collins - The Two Destinies
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - A Gentle Creature
• George Eliot - Daniel Deronda
• Thomas Hardy - The Hand of Ethelberta
• Joris-Karl Huysmans - Martha
• Herman Melville - Clarel -
• Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Jules Verne - Michael Strogoff
• Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Three Brides
• Emile Zola - Son Excellence Eugène Rougon

New drama

• Émile Augier - Madame Caverlet

Poetry

• Lewis Carroll - The Hunting of the Snark

Non-fiction

• Søren Kierkegaard - Judge for Yourselves!
• Robert's Rules of Order

Births

• January 12 - Jack London (+ 1916)
• February 16 - G. M. Trevelyan, historian (+ 1962)
• March 4 - Léon-Paul Fargue, poet (+ 1947)
• April 13 - Sidney Bradshaw Fay (+ 1967)
• May 10 - Ivan Cankar, dramatist and poet (+ 1918)
• July 12 - Max Jacob, poet (+ 1944)
• September 13 - Sherwood Anderson (+ 1941)
• November 1 - Anne de Noailles, French writer (d. 1933)

Deaths

• January 7 - Juste Olivier, poet
• January 19 - George Julius Poulett Scrope, political economist
• February 3 - Gino Capponi, historian
• February 27 - Afanasy Shchapov, historian
• March 2 - Johannes Falke, historian
• May 7 - William Buell Sprague, biographer
• May 24 - Henry Kingsley, novelist
• May 26 - František Palacký, historian
• June 8 - George Sand, French novelist
• June 27 - Harriet Martineau, philosopher and feminist writer
• July 14 - James Henry, poet
• July 24 - John William Kaye, military historian
• July 25 - Robert Caesar Childers, orientalist
• October 7 - Georg Heinrich Pertz, historian
• October 18 - Francis Preston Blair, journalist
• November 24 - Maria Francesca Rossetti, writer and sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti
• December 30 - Christian Winther, lyric poet
• date unknown
  • Catherine Crowe, novelist and children's writer
  • Joshua Hobson, pamphleteer

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