1879 in literature

1879 in literature

The year 1879 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* The Rabelais Club is founded in London, holding a literary dinner once every two months. High-profile members included novelists Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walter Besant, and George du Maurier.

New books

*William Harrison Ainsworth - "Beau Nash"
*Louisa May Alcott - ""
*Ethel Lynn Beers - ""All Quiet Along The Potomac" and Other Poems"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon
**"The Cloven Foot"
**"Vixen"
*Wilkie Collins
**"The Fallen Leaves"
**"A Rogue's Life"
*Alphonse Daudet - "Kings in Exile"
*Joris-Karl Huysmans - "Les Soeurs Vatard"
*Henry James - "Daisy Miller"
*Pierre Loti - "Aziyadé"
*George Meredith - "The Egoist"
*John Boyle O'Reilly - "Moondyne"
*Samuel Vedanayakam Pillai - "Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram"
*August Strindberg
**"The Red Room"
**"Roda Rummet"
*Anthony Trollope
**"Cousin Henry"
**"The Duke's Children"
**"John Caldigate"
*Jules Verne
**"The Begum's Fortune"
**"Tribulations of a Chinaman in China"

New drama

*James Herne - "Hearts of Oak"
*Henrik Ibsen - "A Doll's House"
*George Robert Sims - "Crutch and Toothpick"

Non-fiction

*Lewis Carroll - "Euclid and his Modern Rivals"
*Gottlob Frege - "Begriffsschrift"
*Robert Louis Stevenson - "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes"

Births

*January 1 - E. M. Forster (d. 1970)
*April 14 - James Branch Cabell, (d. 1958)
*October 2 - Wallace Stevens, poet (d. 1955)
*December 24 - Émile Nelligan, poet (d. 1941)

Deaths

*February 11 - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author
*March 3 - Annie Keary, novelist
*March 9 - Mark Prager Lindo, historian
*March 19 - Claire Clairmont, lover of Lord Byron
*April 8 - Anthony Panizzi, librarian
*April 21 - George Hadfield, Radical author and politician
*April 25 - Charles Tennyson Turner, poet
*July 4 - Sarah Dorsey, novelist and historian
*July 30 - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, poet and journalist
*September 23 - Francis Kilvert, diarist
*October 13 - Henry Charles Carey, economist
*October 28 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, political economist
*October 31
**Jacob Abbott, writer
**John Baldwin Buckstone, dramatist

Awards

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