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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1863. ==Events== *January 1 - Essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorates today's Emancipation Proclamation in the United States by composing "Boston Hymn" and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with its debut reading at Boston Music Hall. *January 31 - Jules Verne's novel ''Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen'' (''Cinq semaines en ballon'') is published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in Paris; it will be the first of Verne's ''Voyages Extraordinaires''. *February 3 - Mark Twain at the ''Territorial Enterprise'': Samuel Langhorne Clemens, signing a humorous letter to the ''Territorial Enterprise'' newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada, first uses the pen name Mark Twain. *June 12 - The Arts Club is founded by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Frederic Leighton and others in London's Mayfair as a social meeting place for those involved or interested in the creative arts. *June 13 - Samuel Butler's dystopian article "Darwin among the Machines" is published (as by "Cellarius") in ''The Press'' newspaper in Christchurch, New Zealand; it will be incorporated into his novel ''Erewhon'' (1872). *December 29 - An estimated 7000 people attend the funeral of William Makepeace Thackeray at Kensington Gardens in London, and nearly 2000 are at his burial in Kensal Green Cemetery.〔(Victorian Web: Grave of William Makepeace Thackeray ). Accessed 8 March 2013〕 *Mendele Mocher Sforim publishes his first Yiddish language story, "Dos Kleine Menshele" ("The Little Man"), in the Odessa weekly ''Kol Mevasser''. *Establishment in Iași of the Romanian ''Junimea'' literary society, a group which will exercise a major influence on Romanian culture until the 1910s. *''Elvira, or the Love of a Tyrant'', a novel by the Neapolitan author Giuseppe Folliero de Luna, becomes the first to be published in the Maltese language, as ''Elvira Jew Imħabba ta’ Tirann''. *Publication of ''The Works of William Shakespeare'' (the "Cambridge Shakespeare"), edited by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, published by Macmillan and printed by Cambridge University Press, begins in Britain. 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「1863 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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