1856 in literature

1856 in literature

The year 1856 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Arthur Schopenhauer adds a chapter on "The Metaphysics of Sexual Love" to the third edition of his "The World as Will and Representation".
*Lewis Carroll takes up photography as a hobby.
*William Henry Smith first makes the claim that the author of Shakespeare's plays was Sir Francis Bacon.
*Richard Francis Burton serves in the army in the Crimean War and becomes engaged to Isabel Arundel.
*Alphonse Daudet begins his teaching career.
*On March 5, the second Royal Opera House at Covent Garden is destroyed by fire (as the first was in 1808).

New books

*José de Alencar - "Cinco minutos"
*R M Ballantyne -"The Young Fur-Traders"
*Fredrika Bremer - "Hertha"
*Wilkie Collins - "The Dead Secret"
*Caroline Lee Hentz - "Ernest Linwood"
*Geraldine Jewsbury - "The Sorrows of Gentility"
*Gottfried Keller - "Die Leute von Seldwyla"
*Herman Melville
**"The Piazza Tales"
**"I and My Chimney"
*Eduard Mörike - "Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag"
*Charles Reade - "It's Never Too Late to Mend"
*Harriet Beecher Stowe - ""
*Leo Tolstoy - "Youth"
*Ivan Turgenev - "Rudin"
*Charlotte Mary Yonge - "The Daisy Chain"

New drama

*Henrik Ibsen - "Olaf Liljekrans"

Poetry

*Elizabeth Barrett Browning - "Aurora Leigh"
*Victor Hugo - "Les Contemplations"

Non-fiction

*Lord Dufferin -"Letters From High Latitudes"
*J. A. Froude - "History of England"
*Washington Irving - "The Life of George Washington, Volume 3"
*Rudolf Lotze - "Mikrokosmos"
*William Ridley - "gurre kamilaroi"
*Alexis de Tocqueville - "L'Ancien régime et la révolution"

Births

*February 14 - Frank Harris, journalist, publisher and memoirist (+ 1931)
* April 5 - Booker T. Washington (+ 1915)
* May 15 - L. Frank Baum, "Wizard of Oz" author (+ 1919)
* July 25 - Charles Major (+ 1913)
* July 26 - George Bernard Shaw, dramatist (+ 1950)
* "date unknown" - Maria Cederschiöld, journalist

Deaths

*January - James Baillie Fraser, travel writer
*February 17 - Heinrich Heine, poet
*June 11 - Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen, philologist
*June 26 - Max Stirner, philosopher
*June 27 - Joseph Meyer, publisher
*July 21 - Emil Aarestrup, poet
*July 29 - Karel Havlíček Borovský, poet, critic and publisher
*August 24 - William Buckland, antiquarian
*August 30 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, humorous writer
*October 13 - Robert Christie, historian and journalist
*November 10 - Johann Kaspar Zeuss, historian
*"date unknown" - Pyotr Chaadaev, philosopher
*"date unknown" - Josef Kajetán Tyl, dramatist and author of the Czech national anthem

Awards

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