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The year 1870 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events
- Thomas Hardy meets his first wife, Emma.
- Friedrich Engels moves to London.
New books
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich - The Story of a Bad Boy
- Thomas Archer - The Terrible Sights of London
- Rhoda Broughton - Red as a rose is she
- Wilkie Collins - Man and Wife
- Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Dickens last and un-finished novel)
- Benjamin Disraeli - Lothair
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Eternal Husband
- Aleksis Kivi - Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä)
- William Morris - The Earthly Paradise
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Venus in Furs (Venus im Pelz)
- Anthony Trollope - The Vicar of Bullhampton
- Jules Verne
- Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Caged Lion
New drama
- James Albery - Two Roses
- Pietro Cossa - Nero
Poetry
- Lewis Carroll - The Hunting of the Snark
- Bret Harte - The Heathen Chinee
- Giovanni Marradi - Canzone moderne
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The House of Life
Non-fiction
- Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1st edition)
Births
- March 5 - Frank Norris (d. 1902)
- June 25 - Erskine Childers (d. 1922)
- July 27 - Hilaire Belloc (d. 1953)
- December 18 - Saki (d. 1916)
- date unknown - Gerald Duckworth, publisher (died 1937)
Deaths
- February 25 - Henrik Hertz, Danish poet
- June 9 - Charles Dickens, British novelist
- June 11 - William Gilmore Simms, author
- July 20 - Jules de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt
- July 24 - Anders Abraham Grafström, Swedish poet and historian
- September 12 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author and explorer
- November 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer
- December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, père, author