1865 in literature
See also: 1864 in literature, other events of 1865, 1866 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- July 4 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published.
- November 18 - Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
New books
- Alec Forbes of Howglen - George MacDonald
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne
- Germinie Lacerteux - Edmond de Goncourt
- Guy Deverell - Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Humbugs of the World - P. T. Barnum
- Iracema - José de Alencar
- The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Lighthouse - RM Ballantyne
- Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds - Robert Smith Surtees
- Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
Births
- March 15 - Edith Maude Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (+ 1914)
- December 30 - Rudyard Kipling (+ 1936)
- June 13 - William Butler Yeats (+ 1939)
Deaths
- February 25 - Otto Ludwig, German novelist/playwright
- November 12 - Elizabeth Gaskell, writer