1855 in literature
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The year 1855 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- July 4 - In Brooklyn, New York, Walt Whitman's first edition of his book of poems titled Leaves of Grass is published.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay's best-selling History of England in four volumes is completed.
- Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Little Dorrit (in installments through 1857).
- The Daily Telegraph newspaper begins publication.
[edit] New books
- Gustav Freytag - Debit and Credit
- Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
- Mary Virginia Hawes - The Hidden Path
- Caroline Lee Hentz - Robert Graham
- Washington Irving - Wolfert's Roost
- Charles Kingsley - Westward Ho!
- Herman Melville
- Gérard de Nerval - Aurelia
- Ann Sophia Stephens - The Old Homestead
- William Makepeace Thackeray - The Newcomes
- Leo Tolstoy - Sebastopol Sketches
- Anthony Trollope - The Warden
[edit] New drama
- Émile Augier - Ménage d'Olympe
- Léon Gozlan - Le Gâteau des reines
- Henrik Ibsen - The Feast at Solhaug
- Ivan Turgenev - A Month in the Country
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- David Brewster - Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton
- Washington Irving - The Life of George Washington, Volumes 1 and 2
- Eliphas Levi - Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie
- George Sand - The Story of My Life (Histoire de ma vie)
- Alfred Russel Wallace - On the Law Which has Regulated the Introduction of Species
[edit] Births
- May 1 - Marie Corelli (Mary Mackay) (+ 1924)
- May 21 - Emile Verhaeren, Symbolist poet (+ 1916)
- May 24 - Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, dramatist (+ 1934)
- July 7 - Ludwig Ganghofer, novelist (+ 1920)
- September 12 - William Sharp, poet and biographer (+ 1905)
- October 30 - Pyotr Gnedich, writer and poet (+ 1925)
- November 4 - William Ritchie Sorley, philosopher (+ 1935)
- December 15 - Maurice Bouchor, poet and sculptor (+ 1929)
- December 28 - Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, poet
- date unknown - Solomon Cleaver, storyteller and novelist
[edit] Deaths
- January 10 - Mary Russell Mitford, English writer
- January 25 - Dorothy Wordsworth, poet and diarist, sister of William Wordsworth
- January 26 - Gérard de Nerval, poet and essayist
- February 4 - Gottfried Christian Friedrich Lücke, theologian
- March 31 - Charlotte Brontë, novelist and poet
- June 29 - Delphine de Girardin, poet and novelist
- November 11 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher
- November 26 - Adam Mickiewicz, Poland's greatest poet
- date unknown - Robert Montgomery, poet
