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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1862. ==Events== *February - Ivan Turgenev's novel ''Fathers and Sons'' (Отцы и дети (old spelling Отцы и дѣти), ''Ottsy i dety'', literally "Fathers and Children") is published by ''Russkiy Vestnik'' in Moscow. *March 30 or 31 - The first two volumes of Victor Hugo's epic historical novel ''Les Misérables'' are published in Brussels followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes following on May 15. *April 6 - Two months after joining the staff of General William Babcock Hazen, Ambrose Bierce participates in the Battle of Shiloh, later the subject of a memoir. Among those on the opposite side is future journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who will also record his experiences. *June - Nikolai Chernyshevsky is imprisoned in Saint Petersburg and begins his novel ''What Is To Be Done?'' *June 4 - Henry Morton Stanley, now a "Galvanized Yankee", joins the Union Army; he is discharged 18 days later because of illness. *July - George Eliot's historical novel ''Romola'' begins serialization in ''Cornhill Magazine'', the first time she has published a full-length book in this format. George Murray Smith of the publishers Smith, Elder & Co. has agreed a £7,000 advance for it. *July 1 - Moscow's first free public library opens as The Library of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumiantsev Museum, predecessor of the Russian State Library. *July 4 - Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) extemporises the story that becomes ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' for 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a rowing boat trip on The Isis from Oxford to Godstow. *September 23 - Leo Tolstoy marries Sophia ("Sonya") Andreevna Behrs, 16 years his junior, in Moscow, having given her a diary detailing his previous sexual relations. *November 26 - Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of ''Alice's Adventures Underground'' to Alice Liddell. *November 29 - Serialization of ''The Notting Hill Mystery'' by "Charles Felix" (probably Charles Warren Adams) commences in ''Once A Week'' (London); it is considered the first full-length detective novel in English. *December - Louisa May Alcott becomes a nurse at the Union hospital in Georgetown, D.C. *December 24 - William Dean Howells marries Elinor Mead at the American embassy in Paris. *''date unknown'' * *James Russell Lowell begins writing for ''The North American Review''. * *Karl Heinrich Ulrichs begins writing about homosexuality under the pseudonym of "Numa Numantius". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1862 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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