1861 in literature

1861 in literature

The year 1861 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*October 20 - Poet and dramatist Apollo Korzeniowski is arrested for his political activities and placed in the infamous Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel.
*Sheridan Le Fanu becomes editor of "Dublin University Magazine".
*Gottfried Keller becomes municipal secretary of his home town of Zurich.
*John Edward Taylor the younger becomes editor of the "Manchester Guardian".
*"The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce" becomes "The Times of India".
*Frederick James Furnivall becomes editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

New books

*Mary Elizabeth Braddon
**"The Black Band"
**"The Octoroon"
*Frances Browne - "My Share of the World"
*Charles Dickens - "Great Expectations"
*Fyodor Dostoevsky - "The Insulted and Humiliated"
*George Eliot - "Silas Marner"
*Harriet Ann Jacobs - "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
*George Sand - "Consuelo"
*Walter Chalmers Smith - "The Bishop's Walk"
*Anthony Trollope - "Orley Farm"
*George J. Whyte-Melville - "Market Harborough"
*Mrs Henry Wood - "East Lynne"
*Charlotte Mary Yonge - "The Young Step-Mother"

New drama

*Léon Gozlan - "La Pluie et le beau temps"

Poetry

*Charles Baudelaire - "Les fleurs du mal", 2nd edition
*"Kalevipoeg" (Estonian national epic)

Non-fiction

*Isabella Beeton - "Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management"
*Michael Faraday - "The Chemical History of a Candle"
*Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - "Writings on the U.S. Civil War"

Births

* April 15 - Bliss Carman, poet (d. 1929)
*September 20 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
* October 16 - J. B. Bury, historian (d. 1927)
* May 13 - Margaret Marshall Saunders, author (d. 1947)
*"date unknown" - Sir John Edward Lloyd, historian (d. 1947)

Deaths

*January 28 - Henri Murger, novelist and poet
*January 29, Catherine Gore, author
*February 20 - Eugène Scribe, dramatist
*April 1 - Lady Charlotte Bury, novelist
*May 23 - Edward Cardwell, theologian
*June 7 - Patrick Brontë, father of the Brontë sisters
*June 29 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
*July 6 - Sir Francis Palgrave, historian
*November 13 - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet
*November 30
**Alexander Gilchrist, biographer
**Theodor Mundt, novelist and critic

Awards

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