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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1869. ==Events== *February 3 - Booth's Theatre opens on Manhattan with the owner, Edwin Booth, playing the male lead in Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet''. *May 22 - Serial publication of Anthony Trollope's novel ''He Knew He Was Right'' concludes and it is issued in London as a book, the first to include a fictional private investigator, ex-policeman Samuel Bozzle (in a case of marital breakdown). *August * *Ambrose Bierce, writing a satirical column for the San Francisco ''News Letter'', begins to produce the cynical definitions which will eventually become ''The Devil's Dictionary''. * *Macmillan Publishing opens its first American office in New York City, headed by George Edward Brett. *October 5 - Model, poet and artist Elizabeth Siddal (d. 1862) is exhumed at Highgate Cemetery in London in order to recover the manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's ''Poems'' buried with her. *December - Publication of Leo Tolstoy's novel ''War and Peace'' («Война и миръ», ''Voyna i mir'') complete in book form concludes. It is printed in Moscow and sold by the author on subscription. 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「1869 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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