1880 in literature

1880 in literature

The year 1880 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*"Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi is published in Italy.

New books

*Henry Adams - "" (published anonymously)
*Rhoda Broughton - "Second Thoughts"
*Wilkie Collins - "Jezebel's Daughter"
*Carlo Collodi - "Pinocchio"
*Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield - "Endymion"
*Fyodor Dostoevsky - "The Brothers Karamazov"
*Evelyn Everett-Green - "Tom Tempest's Victory"
*George Gissing - "Workers in the Dawn"
*Percy Greg - "Across The Zodiac"
*Ouida - "Moths"
*Johanna Spyri - "Heidi's Formative Years"
*Anthony Trollope - "Ayala's Angel"
*Mark Twain - "A Tramp Abroad"
*Jules Verne - "The Steam House"
*Lew Wallace - ""
*Emile Zola - "Nana"

Births

*February 21 - Waldemar Bonsels, writer (+ 1952)
*March 13 - Frank Thiess, writer (+ 1977)
*March 30 - Sean O'Casey, dramatist (+ 1964)
*June 17 - Carl Van Vechten, writer (+ 1964)
*July 10 - Greye La Spina, writer (+ 1969)
*November 6 - Robert Musil, novelist (+ 1942)

Deaths

*February 12 - Karl Eduard von Holtei, poet and dramatist
*February 17 - James Lenox, bibliophile
*April 16 - Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, poet
*May 8 - Gustave Flaubert, novelist
*June 7 - Karl Christian Planck, philosopher
*July 7 - Lydia Maria Child, writer, activist
*July 12 - Tom Taylor, dramatist and journalist
*September 23 – Geraldine Jewsbury, British author
*November 8 - Arthur Freeman, journalist (suicide)
*December 22 - George Eliot, author
*"date unknown"
**Louis Edmond Duranty, novelist and critic
**James Planché, dramatist

Awards

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