This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1867.
Events
By February – The first blue plaque is erected in London by the Society of Arts on the birthplace (1788) of poet Lord Byron (later demolished). October 3 – Anthony Trollope resigns from a senior administrative position in the British General Post Office, to write full-time. November – The Leipzig publisher Reclam launches its Universal-Bibliothek series of cheap reprints with an edition of Goethe's Faust following the lifting of copyright restrictions in the new North German Confederation for authors dead for more than 30 years. December 2 – Charles Dickens begins a U.S. reading tour in New York City. December – After publication of Leo Tolstoy's 1805, an early version of War and Peace, concludes in The Russian Messenger, an advertisement appears for the revised complete novel. unknown dates The première of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's historical drama The Death of Ivan the Terrible (, written in 1863 and first published in 1866) is held at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, the first of a trilogy. Mrs. Henry Wood purchases and begins editing the U.K. fiction magazine Argosy. Three American periodicals for children – Oliver Optic's Magazine, Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly, and the Riverside Magazine for Young People – are launched.
New books
Fiction
Horatio Alger, Jr. – Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks (serialization in Student and Schoolmate) Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Circe Rhoda Broughton Cometh Up as a Flower Not Wisely, But Too Well Charles Theodore Henri de Coster – The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak (La Légende et les aventures héroïques, joyeuses et glorieuses d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak au pays de Flandres et ailleurs) John William De Forest – Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty Anna Hanson Dorsey – Coaina: The Rose of the Algonquins Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The Gambler («Игрок», Igrok, novella) Augusta Jane Evans – St. Elmo Émile Gaboriau – The Mystery of Orcival (Le Crime d'Orcival) Goncourt brothers – Manette Salomon Jorge Isaacs – María Ippolito Nievo – Le confessioni di un ottagenario (translated as The Castle of Fratta) Caroline Norton – Old Sir Douglas (serialization concluded) Ouida – Under Two Flags Anthony Trollope The Last Chronicle of Barset (sixth of the Chronicles of Barsetshire; serial publication concludes July 6; book publication in 2 vols, March–July) Phineas Finn (second of the Palliser novels; serialization begins in Saint Paul's Magazine, October) Ivan Turgenev – Smoke («Дым», Dym) Mark Twain – The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (collected short stories) Émile Zola – Thérèse Raquin
Children and young people
Ada Cambridge – Little Jenny
George Manville Fenn – Hollowdell Grange
G. A. Henty – A Search for a Secret
Hesba Stretton – Jessica's First Prayer
Drama
Erckmann-Chatrian – Le Juif Polonais
W. S. Gilbert – Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren
Henrik Ibsen – Peer Gynt (first published) Navalram Pandya – Bhatnu Bhopalu Thomas William Robertson – Caste
Poetry
Matthew Arnold – New Poems, including "Dover Beach" William Morris – The Life and Death of Jason Jan Neruda – Knihy veršů (Books of Verses) Piet Paaltjens (François Haverschmidt) – Snikken en grimlachjes: poëzie uit den studententijd ("Sobs and Bitter Grins: poetry of student days") Henry Timrod – "Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867"
Non-fiction
Walter Bagehot – The English Constitution (in book form) Augusta Theodosia Drane – Christian Schools and Scholars Edward Augustus Freeman – The History of the Norman Conquest of England (completed in six volumes in 1879) William Carew Hazlitt – Handbook to the Popular, Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain, from the Invention of Printing to the Restoration Francis Marrash – Rihlat Baris Karl Marx – Das Kapital Henry Maudsley – The Physiology and Pathology of Mind Marius Nygaard – Kortfattet Fremstilling af det norske Landsmaals Grammatik (Brief introduction to Norwegian Landsmål Grammar) William Makepeace Thackeray – The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: a series of lectures William Thomson – Treatise on Natural Philosophy