1855 in literature

1855 in literature

The year 1855 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* July 4 - In Brooklyn, New York, Walt Whitman's first edition of his book of poem's titled "Leaves of Grass" is published.
*Thomas Babington Macaulay's best-selling "History of England" in four volumes is completed.
*Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Little Dorrit (in installments through 1857).
*The "Daily Telegraph" newspaper begins publication.

New books

*Gustav Freytag - "Debit and Credit"
*Elizabeth Gaskell - "North and South"
*Mary Virginia Hawes - "The Hidden Path"
*Caroline Lee Hentz - "Robert Graham"
*Washington Irving - "Wolfert's Roost"
*Charles Kingsley - "Westward Ho!"
*Herman Melville
**"Israel Potter"
**"The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids"
*Gérard de Nerval - "Aurelia"
*Ann Sophia Stephens - "The Old Homestead"
*William Makepeace Thackeray - "The Newcomes"
*Leo Tolstoy - "Sebastopol Sketches"
*Anthony Trollope - "The Warden"

New drama

*Émile Augier - "Ménage d'Olympe"
*Léon Gozlan - "Le Gâteau des reines"
*Henrik Ibsen - "The Feast at Solhaug"
*Ivan Turgenev - "A Month in the Country"

Poetry

*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - "The Song of Hiawatha"
*Walt Whitman - "Leaves of Grass"

Non-fiction

*David Brewster - "Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton"
*Washington Irving - "The Life of George Washington, Volumes 1 and 2"
*Eliphas Levi - "Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie"
*George Sand - "The Story of My Life"
*Alfred Russel Wallace - "On the Law Which has Regulated the Introduction of Species"

Births

*May 1 - Marie Corelli (Mary Mackay) (+ 1924)
*May 21 - Emile Verhaeren, Symbolist poet (+ 1916)
*May 24 - Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, dramatist (+ 1934)
*July 7 - Ludwig Ganghofer, novelist (+ 1920)
*September 12 - William Sharp, poet and biographer (+ 1905)
*November 4 - William Ritchie Sorley, philosopher (+ 1935)
*December 15 - Maurice Bouchor, poet and sculptor (+ 1929)
*December 28 - Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, poet
*"date unknown" - Solomon Cleaver, storyteller and novelist

Deaths

* January 10 - Mary Russell Mitford, English writer
*January 25 - Dorothy Wordsworth, poet and diarist, sister of William Wordsworth
*January 26 - Gérard de Nerval, poet and essayist
*February 4 - Gottfried Christian Friedrich Lücke, theologian
*March 31 - Charlotte Brontë, novelist and poet
*June 29 - Delphine de Girardin, poet and novelist
*November 11 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher
*November 26 - Adam Mickiewicz, Poland's greatest poet
*"date unknown" - Robert Montgomery, poet

Awards

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