Calendar of Literary Facts
1872
- George MacDonald publishes The Princess and Curdie
- George Eliot publishes Middlemarch Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century
- Bertrand Russell is born
- Eadweard Maybridge captures the first primitive motion picture, that of a horse in motion
- Lewis Carroll publishes Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
- Leonora Speyer is born (November 7)
- Theophile Gautier dies (October 23)
- Max Beerbohm is born (August 24)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar is born (June 27)
- Pío Baroja is born (December 28)
- Zane Grey is born (January 31)
