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Overview of the events of 1859 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1859 .
Events
1st ed.
c. January –
Tidskrift för hemmet (Home Review), the first women's magazine in the Nordic countries, is founded by
Sophie Leijonhufvud and
Rosalie Olivecrona in
Stockholm (Sweden).
February 1 –
George Eliot 's
Adam Bede , her first full-length novel, is published by
John Blackwood in the United Kingdom.
[1] Contemporary reviews are largely positive, describing it as "of the highest class".
[2] and "first-rate";
[3] However, it is also accused of being "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind"
[4] and circulating libraries refuse to stock it or will supply it only under the counter.
[4]
February 4 –
German scholar
Constantin von Tischendorf identifies portions of the mid-4th century
Codex Sinaiticus (an
uncial manuscript of the
Greek
Bible ) at
Saint Catherine's Monastery on
Mount Sinai in the
Khedivate of Egypt and arranges for its presentation to his patron, Tsar
Alexander II of Russia at
Saint Petersburg .
April 30 –
Charles Dickens 's weekly magazine
All the Year Round is published for the first time in London, succeeding
Household Words and containing the first serial installment of his historical novel
A Tale of Two Cities .
June–July –
Frances Harper 's "The Two Offers", the first English-language short story by an African American author, is published in the first volume of The Anglo-African Magazine (New York).
September – Twenty three-year-old
Isabella Beeton 's
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management begins publication as a
partwork supplement to
The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine , published by her husband
Samuel Orchart Beeton in London.
November 26 –
Wilkie Collins 's
The Woman in White , an early example of
mystery fiction , begins serialisation in All the Year Round .
unknown date – The first translation of
Adam Mickiewicz 's
Polish epic poem
Pan Tadeusz (
1834 ) into another language,
Belarusian , is made by the writer and dramatist
Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich , in
Vilnius ,
[5] but pressure from the authorities of the ruling
Russian Empire means he is able to publish only the first two chapters.
New books
Fiction
1st ed.
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 29 –
Ethel Hillyer Harris , author (died
1931 )
March 8 –
Kenneth Grahame , Scottish-born children's author (died
1932 )
March 16 –
Jennie M. Bingham , American author (died
1933 )
March 26 –
A. E. Housman , English poet (died
1936 )
May 1 –
Alexandru Philippide , Romanian linguist and polemicist (died
1933 )
May 2 –
Jerome K. Jerome , English humorous writer (died
1927 )
May 6 –
Willem Kloos , Dutch poet and critic (died
1938 )
May 22
June 8 —
Mary Cholmondeley , English writer (died
1925 )
June 10 —
Jacques Perk , Dutch poet (died
1881 )
July 8 —
Annie S. Swan , Scottish novelist (died
1943 )
July 13 —
Marion Manville Pope , American poet and author of juvenile literature (died
1930 )
August 4 –
Knut Hamsun , Norwegian Nobel Prize–winning author (died
1952 )
August 8 –
Henry Gauthier-Villars , French writer (died
1931 )
September 24 –
S. R. Crockett , Scottish novelist (died
1914 )
September 26 –
Irving Bacheller , American journalist and writer (died
1950 )
October 3 –
Dumitru Theodor Neculuță , Romanian poet (died
1904 )
October 18 –
Henri Bergson , French philosopher and winner of the 1927
Nobel Prize in literature (died
1941 )
[11]
November 2 –
Augusta Peaux , Dutch poet (died
1944 )
November 23 –
Clara H. Hazelrigg , American author, educator and reformer (died
1937 )
December 5 –
Sidney Lee (Solomon Lee), English biographer (died
1926 )
December 15 –
L. L. Zamenhof , Russo-Polish initiator of
Esperanto (died
1917 )
December 24 –
Olive E. Dana , American author (died
1904 )
Deaths
January 20 –
Bettina von Arnim , German novelist (born
1785 )
[12]
January 21 –
Henry Hallam , English historian (born
1777 )
January 28 –
William H. Prescott , American historian (born
1796 )
February 13 –
Eliza Acton , English cookery writer and poet (born
1799 )
[13]
February 27 –
Thomas Kibble Hervey , Scottish-born poet and critic (born
1799 )
April 14 –
Lady Morgan , Irish novelist (born c. 1781)
April 16 –
Alexis de Tocqueville , French historian and political author (tuberculosis, born
1805 )
April 29 –
Dionysius Lardner , Irish scientific writer (born
1793 )
July 23 –
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore , French poet (born
1786 )
September 2 –
Delia Bacon , American playwright and Shakespeare scholar (born
1811 )
September 27 –
Marițica Bibescu , Wallachian poet and literary patron (cancer, born
1815 )
October 4 –
Karl Baedeker , German guidebook publisher (born
1801 )
November 7 –
Auguste Hilarion , French politician and writer (born
1769 )
November 16 –
William Spalding , Scottish writer and scholar (born
1809 )
November 20 –
Mountstuart Elphinstone , Scottish historian (born
1779 )
November 28 –
Washington Irving , American fiction writer, biographer and historian (born
1783 )
[14]
December 1 –
John Austin , English legal philosopher (born
1790 in literature )
December 8 –
Thomas de Quincey , English essayist (born
1785 )
December 16 –
Wilhelm Grimm , German collector of folk tales (born
1786 )
December 28 –
Thomas Babington Macaulay , English-born poet, historian and politician (heart attack; born
1800 )
[15]
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