1879 in literature
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The year 1879 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- The Rabelais Club is founded in London, holding a literary dinner once every two months. High-profile members included novelists Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walter Besant, and George du Maurier.
[edit] New books
- William Harrison Ainsworth - Beau Nash
- Louisa May Alcott - Jack and Jill: A Village Story
- Ethel Lynn Beers - "All Quiet Along The Potomac" and Other Poems
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Cloven Foot
- Edward William Cole - Cole's Funny Picture Book
- Wilkie Collins - The Fallen Leaves
- Alphonse Daudet - Kings in Exile
- Joris-Karl Huysmans - Les Soeurs Vatard
- Henry James - Daisy Miller
- Pierre Loti - Aziyadé
- George Meredith - The Egoist
- John Boyle O'Reilly - Moondyne
- Samuel Vedanayakam Pillai - Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram
- August Strindberg - The Red Room (Roda Rummet)
- Anthony Trollope - Cousin Henry
- Jules Verne - The Begum's Fortune
[edit] New drama
We must come to a final settlement, Torvald. During eight whole years. . . we have never exchanged one serious word about serious things.
Nora, in Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879)
- James Herne - Hearts of Oak
- Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House
- George Robert Sims - Crutch and Toothpick
[edit] Non-fiction
- Lewis Carroll - Euclid and his Modern Rivals
- Gottlob Frege - Begriffsschrift
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
[edit] Births
- January 1 - E. M. Forster (d. 1970)
- April 14 - James Branch Cabell, novelist (d. 1958)
- October 2 - Wallace Stevens, poet (d. 1955)
- December 24 - Émile Nelligan, poet (d. 1941)
[edit] Deaths
- February 11 - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author
- March 3 - Annie Keary, novelist (b. 1825)
- March 9 - Mark Prager Lindo, historian (b. 1819)
- March 19 - Claire Clairmont, lover of Lord Byron (b. 1798)
- April 8 - Anthony Panizzi, librarian (b. 1797)
- April 21 - George Hadfield, Radical author and politician (b. 1787)
- April 25 - Charles Tennyson Turner, poet (b. 1808)
- July 4 - Sarah Dorsey, novelist and historian (b. 1829)
- July 30 - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, poet and journalist (b. 1818)
- September 23 - Francis Kilvert, diarist (b. 1840)
- October 13 - Henry Charles Carey, economist (b. 1793)
- October 28 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, political economist
- October 31 - Jacob Abbott, writer (b. 1803)
- John Baldwin Buckstone, dramatist (b. 1802)
