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1855 in literature
See also:
1854 in literature
,
other events of 1855
,
1856 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
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 finished.
Charles Dickens
publishes the first installment of
Little Dorritt[?]
(in installments through 1857).
New Books
Aurelia[?]
-
Gerard Nerval[?]
Debit and Credit[?]
-
Gustav Freytag[?]
The Hidden Path[?]
-
Mary Virginia Hawes[?]
Israel Potter[?]
-
Herman Melville
Leaves of Grass
(poetry) -
Walt Whitman
A Month in the Country[?]
-
Ivan Turgenev
The Old Homestead[?]
-
Ann Sophia Stephens[?]
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids[?]
-
Herman Melville
Robert Graham[?]
-
Caroline Lee Hentz[?]
Song of Hiawatha[?]
(poetry) -
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Story of My Life[?]
-
George Sand
The Warden[?]
-
Anthony Trollope
Westward Ho![?]
-
Charles Kingsley
Births
May 1
-
Marie Corelli
(Mary Mackay) (+
1924
)
Deaths
January 10
-
Mary Russell Mitford[?]
, English writer
March 31
-
Charlotte Bronte
, author
November 26
-
Adam Mickiewicz
, Poland's greatest poet
Awards
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