This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1872.
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young adults
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- January 31 â Zane Grey, American Western novelist (died 1939)
- March 31 â Mary Lewis Langworthy, American pageant writer (died 1949)
- April 4
- Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaàâ Romanian art historian, ethnographer and journalist (died 1952)
- Frida Uhl â Austrian writer (died 1943)
- May 2 â IchiyÃ
 Higuchi, Japanese writer (died 1896)
- May 21 (May 9 O.S.) â Teffi, born Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya, Russian-born humorist (died 1952)
- May 31 â W. Heath Robinson, English cartoonist and illustrator (died 1944)
- June 27 â Paul Laurence Dunbar, African American poet, novelist and playwright (died 1906)
- August 24 â Max Beerbohm, English essayist and parodist (died 1956)
- September 15 â Frances Garnet Wolseley, English horticulturist and garden writer (died 1936)
- September 22 â Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, American fiction writer and poet (died 1958)
- October 8 â John Cowper Powys, Anglo-Welsh novelist (died 1963)
- October 10 â Arthur Talmage Abernethy, American theologian and poet (died 1956)
- October 18 (October 6 O.S.) â Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet, novelist and composer (died 1936)
- October 20 â F. M. Mayor, English novelist (died 1932)
- November 23 â Eraclie Sterian, Romanian science writer and playwright (died 1948)
- December 28 â PÃÂo Baroja, Spanish novelist (died 1956)
Deaths
- January 21 â Franz Grillparzer, Austrian poet and dramatist (born 1791)
- February 6 â Sir Thomas Phillipps, English book collector (born 1792)
- March 4 â Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (born 1790)
- March 10 â Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian philosopher, journalist and politician (born 1805)
- March 11 â Emily Taylor, English author, poet and hymn writer (born 1795)
- April 1 â Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian (born 1805)
- April 13 â Samuel Bamford, English essayist and poet (born 1788)
- April 20 â Ljudevit Gaj, Croatian linguist and journalist (born 1809)
- May 13 â Moritz Hartmann, German poet (born 1821)
- May 29 â Frank Key Howard, American journalist and memoirist (born 1826)
- June 1 â Charles Lever, Irish novelist (born 1806)
- July 25 â Gregorio Gutiérrez González, Colombian poet (born 1826)
- August 8 â Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (born 1809)
- September 11 â Countess Dash, French writer (born 1804)
- September 18 â Herbert Haines, English historian and Anglican theologian (born 1826)
- September 22 â Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (born 1801)
- October 10 â Fanny Fern, American journalist, novelist and children's writer (born 1811)
- October 21 â Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, Swiss historian (born 1794)
- November 16 â William Gilham, American military writer (born 1818)
- December 23 â Théophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (born 1811)
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