1859 in literature

1859 in literature

The year 1859 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* The book "Adam Bede", by George Eliot, was accused of being the "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind" in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and was consequently withdrawn from libraries.
* On 30 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

*Charles Darwin - "On the Origin of Species"
*William Henry Harvey - "Phycologia Australica"
*Washington Irving - "The Life of George 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

* 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 1927 Nobel Prize in literature
* December 15 - L. L. Zamenhof, Russo-Polish initiator of Esperanto

Deaths

*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 politician

Awards

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