- 1859 in literature
The year 1859 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
* The book "
Adam Bede ", byGeorge Eliot , was accused of being the "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind" in theUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and was consequently withdrawn from libraries.
* On30 April ,Charles Dickens 's new weekly magazine "All the Year Round " is published for the first time, succeeding "Household Words ".New books
*R M Ballantyne -"
The World of Ice "
*Charles Dickens - "A Tale of Two Cities "
*Fyodor Dostoevsky - "The Village of Stepanchikovo "
*George Eliot
**"Adam Bede "
**"The Lifted Veil "
*Ivan Goncharov - "Oblomov "
*Mary Jane Holmes - "Dora Deane "
*Hector Malot - "Les Amants "
*George Meredith - "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel "
*Viktor Rydberg - "The Last Athenian"
*Harriet Beecher Stowe - "The Minister's Wooing
*Leo Tolstoy - "Family Happiness "
*Ivan Turgenev - "Home of the Gentry (Дворянское гнездо)"
*Harriet E. Wilson - "Our Nig"Poetry
*Edward Fitzgerald -"
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám "
*Alfred Tennyson - "Idylls of the King "Non-fiction
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Charles Darwin - "On the Origin of Species"
*William Henry Harvey - "Phycologia Australica "
*Washington Irving - "The Life ofGeorge Washington , Volume 5"
*Søren Kierkegaard - "The Point of View of My Work as an Author " (published posthumously; first full publication)
*Karl Marx - " Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy"
*John Stuart Mill - "On Liberty "Births
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March 8 -Kenneth Grahame (+1932 )
*March 26 -A. E. Housman , poet (+1936 )
*May 2 -Jerome K. Jerome , humorous writer (+1927 )
*May 22 -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (+1930 )
*June 8 –Mary Cholmondeley , English writer (d.1925 )
*August 4 -Knut Hamsun , Nobel-Prize-winning author
*October 18 -Henri Bergson , French philosopher and winner of the 1927Nobel Prize in literature
*December 15 -L. L. Zamenhof , Russo-Polish initiator ofEsperanto Deaths
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January 20 -Bettina von Arnim , novelist
*January 21 -Henry Hallam , historian
*February 13 -Eliza Acton , cookbook author
*April 14 -Lady Morgan , novelist
*April 16 -Alexis de Tocqueville , historian and political author
*April 29 -Dionysius Lardner , scientific writer
*July 23 -Marceline Desbordes-Valmore , poet
*September 2 -Delia Bacon , Shakespearean scholar
*October 4 -Karl Baedeker , publisher
*November 7 -Auguste Hilarion , politician and writer
*November 16 -William Spalding , literary critic
*November 20 -Mountstuart Elphinstone , historian
*November 28 -Washington Irving , author
*December 8 -Thomas de Quincey , opium-eating author
*December 16 -Wilhelm Grimm , collector of fairy-tales
*December 28 -Thomas Macaulay , poet, historian and politicianAwards
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