1859 in literature
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See also: 1858 in literature, other events of 1859, 1860 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- The book, Adam Bede by George Eliot, was accused of being the "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind" in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and was consequently withdrawn from libraries.
[edit] New books
- Adam Bede - George Eliot
- Les Amants - Hector Malot
- Dora Deane - Mary Jane Holmes
- The Last Athenian - Viktor Rydverg
- The Lifted Veil - George Eliot
- Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
- The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - George Meredith
- Rocambole - Pierre Ponson
- A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- The World of Ice - RM Ballantyne
- The Minister's Wooing - Harriet Beecher Stowe
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species
- Karl Marx - Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
- John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
[edit] Births
- March 8 - Kenneth Grahame (+ 1932)
- May 2 - Jerome K. Jerome, humorous writer (+ 1927)
- May 22 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (+ 1930)
- June 8 – Mary Cholmondeley, English writer (d. 1925)
- August 4 - Knut Hamsun, Nobel-Prize-winning author
- October 18 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher and winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in literature
- December 15 - L. L. Zamenhof, Russo-Polish initiator of Esperanto
[edit] Deaths
- January 20 - Bettina von Arnim, novelist
- January 21 - Henry Hallam, historian
- February 13 - Eliza Acton, cookbook author
- March 26 - A. E. Housman, poet
- April 14 - Lady Morgan, novelist
- April 16 - Alexis de Tocqueville, historian and political author
- April 29 - Dionysius Lardner, scientific writer
- July 23 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, poet
- September 2 - Delia Bacon, Shakespearean scholar
- October 4 - Karl Baedeker, publisher
- November 7 - Auguste Hilarion, politician and writer
- November 16 - William Spalding, literary critic
- November 20 - Mountstuart Elphinstone, historian
- November 28 - Washington Irving, author
- December 8 - Thomas de Quincey, opium-eating author
- December 16 - Wilhelm Grimm, collector of fairy-tales
- December 28 - Thomas Macaulay, poet, historian and politician
