1859 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1859.
Contents
Events
- 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 the "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 Biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf identifies substantial portions of the mid-4th century Codex Sinaiticus at Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai and arranges for its presentation to his patron, Tsar Alexander II of Russia at Saint Petersburg.
- April 30 – Charles Dickens's new weekly magazine All the Year Round is published for the first time in London, succeeding Household Words.
- September – 23-year-old Isabella Beeton's compilation 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) shortly after the birth of her second son.
- November 26 – Wilkie Collins's sensation novel The Woman in White, an early example of mystery fiction, begins serialization in All the Year Round.
- The beginning of the Tidskrift för hemmet, the first women's magazine in the Nordic countries.
New books
- R. M. Ballantyne – The World of Ice
- Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Village of Stepanchikovo («Село Степанчиково и его обитатели», Selo Stepanchikovo i evo obitateli)
- George Eliot
- Augusta Jane Evans – Beulah
- Ivan Goncharov – Oblomov («Обломов»)
- Mary Jane Holmes – Dora Deane
- Charles Lever – Davenport Dunn : a man of our day
- Hector Malot – Les Amants ("The Lovers")
- George Meredith – The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
- Viktor Rydberg – Den siste Atenaren ("The Last Athenian")
- George Sand
- Elle et lui
- L'Homme de neige
- Jean de la Roche
- Narcisse
- Harriet Beecher Stowe – The Minister's Wooing
- Leo Tolstoy – Family Happiness («Семейное счастье», Semeynoye Schast'ye; published in Russkiy vestnik)
- Ivan Turgenev – Home of the Gentry («Дворянское гнездо», Dvorjanskoe gnezdo; published in Sovremennik, January)
- Harriet E. Wilson – Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
New drama
- Dion Boucicault – The Octoroon
- Dinabandhu Mitra – Nil Darpan
- Alexander Ostrovsky – The Storm
- Watts Phillips – The Dead Heart
- Aleksey Pisemsky – A Bitter Fate (Горькая судьбина, Gorkaya sudbina)
Poetry
- See also 1859 in poetry
- Edward Fitzgerald – The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- Alfred Tennyson – Idylls of the King
Non-fiction
- Charles Darwin – On the Origin of Species
- William Henry Harvey – Phycologia Australica
- Washington Irving – The Life of George Washington, Volume 5
- Søren Kierkegaard – The Point of View of My Work as an Author (published posthumously; first full publication)
- Karl Marx – Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
- John Stuart Mill – On Liberty
- Samuel Smiles – Self Help
Births
- March 8 – Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-born children's author (died 1932)
- March 26 – A. E. Housman, English poet (died 1936)
- May 2 – Jerome K. Jerome, English humorous writer (died 1927)
- May 22
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish-born physician and prolific writer (died 1930)
- Tsubouchi Shōyō (Tsubouchi Yūzō, 坪内 雄蔵), Japanese writer (died 1935)
- June 8 — Mary Cholmondeley, English writer (died 1925)
- July 8 — Annie Shepherd Swan, Scottish novelist (died 1943)
- August 4 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian Nobel Prize–winning author (died 1952)
- September 24 – S. R. Crockett, Scottish novelist (died 1914)
- September 26 – Irving Bacheller, American journalist and writer (died 1950)
- October 18 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher and winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in literature (died 1941)
- December 5 – Sidney Lee (Solomon Lee), English biographer (died 1926)
- December 15 – L. L. Zamenhof, Russo-Polish initiator of Esperanto (died 1917)
Deaths
- January 20 – Bettina von Arnim, German novelist (born 1785)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- December 8 – Thomas de Quincey, English essayist (born 1785)
- December 16 – Wilhelm Grimm, German collector of folk tales (born 1786)
- December 28 – Thomas Macaulay, English-born poet, historian and politician (heart attack, born 1800)
