1871 in literature

See also: 1870 in literature, other events of 1871, 1872 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New books

• The Adventures of Harry Richmond - George Meredith
• The Coming Race - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• The Descent of Man - Charles Darwin
• Eye Openers - Mark Twain
• Fenton's Quest - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• La Fortune des Rougon - Emile Zola
• A Leaf on Vrony's Grave - Johanna Spyri
• Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
• Middlemarch - George Eliot
• Screamers - Mark Twain
• Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
• Watch and Ward - Henry James

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

Awards