1861 in literature

See also: 1860 in literature, other events of 1861, 1862 in literature, list of years in literature.

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

Events

New Books

• The Black Band[?] - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Cloister and the Hearth[?] - Charles Reade
• Framely Parsonage[?] - Anthony Trollope
• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl[?] - Harriet Ann Jacobs[?]
• Market Harborough[?] - George J Whyte-Melville[?]
• The Octoroon[?] - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Orley Farm[?] - Anthony Trollope
• Silas Marner[?] - George Eliot
• The Young Step-Mother[?] - Charlotte Mary Yonge

Births

• April 15 - Bliss Carman, poet (+ 1929)

Deaths

• January 29, Catherine Gore[?], author
• June 29 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet

Awards