Overview of the events of 1859 in literature
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. New books [ edit ] Fiction [ edit ] 1st ed. Children and young people [ edit ] Non-fiction [ edit ] 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] References [ edit ]