1856 in literature

See also: 1855 in literature, other events of 1856, 1857 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

New Books

• Adam Bede[?] - George Eliot
• Aurora Leigh[?] (poetry) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Benito Cereno[?] - Herman Melville
• The Daisy Chain[?] - Charlotte Mary Yonge
• The Dead Secret[?] - Wilkie Collins
• Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp[?] - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Ernest Linwood[?] - Caroline Lee Hentz[?]
• I and My Chimney[?] - Herman Melville
• The Young Fur-Traders[?] - RM Ballantyne

Births

• April 5 - Booker T. Washington (+ 1915)
• May 15 - L. Frank Baum (+ 1919)
• July 26 - George Bernard Shaw (+ 1950)

Deaths

Awards