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Overview of the events of 1859 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1859 .
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.
1st ed.
Children and young people
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 )
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]