1859 In Literature

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the "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind" in the United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland and was consequently withdrawn from libraries.

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

POETRY

Edward Fitzgerald - '' The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám ''

Alfred Tennyson - '' The Idylls Of The King ''

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 ''

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

DEATHS

January 20 - Bettina Von Arnim , novelist

January 21 - Henry Hallam , historian

February 13 - Eliza Acton , cookbook author

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

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