- 1858 in literature
The year 1858 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
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Henrik Ibsen marries and becomes creative director ofOslo 's National Theater.
*Charles Baudelaire 's study onThéophile Gautier is published in "Revue contemporaine".
*John Ruskin meetsRose la Touche .
*The thirdRoyal Opera House inCovent Garden , designed byEdward Middleton Barry , opens on May 15. It was rebuilt after the fire of 1856 destroyed the second theatre (as the fire of 1808 had destroyed the first).New books
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - "Arne"
*George Eliot - "The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton "
*Ernest-Aimé Feydeau - "Fanny"
*Catherine Gore - "Heckington "
*Catharine Maria Sedgwick - "Memoir of Joseph Curtis "
*Anthony Trollope - "Doctor Thorne "New drama
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Tom Taylor - "Our American Cousin "Poetry *
Matthew Arnold - "Merope"
*Alphonse Daudet - "Les Amoureuses"
*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - "The Courtship of Miles Standish "
*William Morris - "The Defence of Guinevere, and other Poems"Non-fiction
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William H. Prescott - "History of Philip II", volume 3
*Alfred Russel Wallace - "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type"
*Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table "Births
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January 22 -Beatrice Webb , political writer, wife and collaborator ofSidney Webb
*March 12 -Adolph Ochs , newspaper publisher
*April 15 -Émile Durkheim , sociologist
*June 25 –Georges Courteline , dramatist and novelist (d.1929 )
*July 24 -Wolfgang Kapp , journalist
*August 3 -Paul Sabatier , religious writer
*November 20 -Selma Lagerlöf Swedish writer (+1940 )
*"date unknown" - SirOwen Morgan Edwards , historian and educator (+ 1920)
*"date unknown" - William Watson, poetDeaths
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January 15 -Louisa Cranstoun Nisbett ("Miss Mordaunt"), actress
*February 13 -Hermann Heinrich Gossen , economist
*February 26 -Thomas Tooke , economist
*May 3 -Julien Auguste Pélage Brizeux , poet
*May 12 -Georg Benedikt Winer , theologian
*May 17 - Frank Forester, novelist and sports writer
*June 3 -Edward Moxon , poet and publisher
*June 28 -Jane Marcet , author of science textbooks
*November 15 -Johanna Kinkel , writer and composer, wife ofGottfried Kinkel
*"date unknown" -Harriet Taylor Mill , philosopher
*"date unknown" -Robert Stephen Rintoul , journalistAwards
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