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1859 in literature
See also:
1858 in literature
,
other events of 1859
,
1860 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
Events
The book,
Adam Bede[?]
by
George Eliot
, was accused of being the "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind" in
Britain
and was consequently withdrawn from libraries.
New Books
Adam Bede[?]
-
George Eliot
Les Amants[?]
-
Hector Malot[?]
Dora Deane[?]
-
Mary Jane Holmes[?]
The Idylls of the King[?]
-
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Last Athenian[?]
-
Viktor Rydverg[?]
Oblomov[?]
-
Ivan Goncharov[?]
On the Origin of Species
-
Charles Darwin
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel[?]
-
George Meredith
Rocambole[?]
-
Pierre Ponson[?]
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám[?]
(poetry) -
Edward Fitzgerald
A Tale of Two Cities
-
Charles Dickens
The World of Ice[?]
-
RM Ballantyne
Births
Mary Cholmondeley[?]
, British writer (+
1925
)
March 8
-
Kenneth Grahame
(+
1932
)
May 22
-
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(+
1930
)
October 18
-
Henri Bergson
, French philosopher and winner of the 1927
Nobel Prize in literature
December 15
-
L. L. Zamenhof
, Ruso-Polish initiator of
Esperanto
Deaths
November 28
-
Washington Irving
, author
December 28
-
Thomas Macaulay
, poet, historian and politician
Awards
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