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Overview of the events of 1855 in literature
Overview of the events of 1855 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1855 .
Events January – Samuel Orchart Beeton 's weekly The Boys' Own Magazine
January 5 – Anthony Trollope 's novel The Warden Chronicles of Barsetshire Longman as he begins to write the second, Barchester Towers June 29 – The Daily Telegraph July 4 – Walt Whitman 's first edition of his book of poems titled Leaves of Grass Brooklyn, New York .September 27 – Alfred Tennyson reads from his new book Maud and other poems Robert and Elizabeth Browning in London. Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a sketch of him doing so.[1] October – Victor Hugo moves to Hauteville House , Saint Peter Port , Guernsey , in the Channel Islands , accompanied by his mistress, Juliette Drouet .
December
Alexander Afanasyev begins publication of his collection of Narodnye russkie skazki ' [National Russian Tales].John Camden Hotten opens a bookselling business in London, which is the origin of the publisher Chatto & Windus .[3] Faris al-Shidyaq publishes the metafiction Sâq 'ala al-sâq (Leg over Leg), the first modern Arabic novel, in Paris .The first Luxembourg novel in French, Marc Bruno, profil d'artiste , is published shortly after the death of its author, Félix Thyes (born 1830). The comedy De Scholtschäin , by Edmond de la Fontaine writing as Dicks , becomes the first play to be performed in the language of Luxembourg .
Belarusian writer Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich publishes «Гапон» (Hapon ) in the Russian Empire , the first poem written wholly in modern Belarusian .New books Fiction Children Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births February 21 – Elizabeth Robins Pennell , American biographer and critic based in London (died 1936 )April 4 – Manonmaniam Sundaram Pillai , Indian dramatist (died 1897 )April 27 – Margaret Wolfe Hungerford , Irish novelist (died 1897 )May 1 – Marie Corelli (Mary Mackay), English novelist (died 1924 )May 21 – Emile Verhaeren , Belgian Symbolist poet writing in French (died 1916 )May 24 – Sir Arthur Wing Pinero , English dramatist (died 1934 )July 7 – Ludwig Ganghofer , German novelist (died 1920 )July 19 – Alexander Ertel , Russian novelist and short story writer (died 1908 )August 7 – Stanley J. Weyman , English novelist (died 1928 )September 12 – William Sharp , Scottish poet and biographer (died 1905 )September 22 – Alice Zimmern , English writer, translator and suffragist (died 1939 )October 30 – Pyotr Gnedich , Russian writer and poet (died 1925 )November 4 – William Ritchie Sorley , Scottish philosopher (died 1935 )December 15 – Maurice Bouchor , French poet and sculptor (died 1929 )December 28 – Juan Zorrilla de San Martín , Uruguayan poet (died 1931 )Unknown date – Solomon Cleaver , Canadian story teller, novelist and pastor (died 1939 )Deaths January 3 – János Majláth , Hungarian poet and historian (born 1786 )January 10 – Mary Russell Mitford , English dramatist and novelist (born 1787 )January 25 – Dorothy Wordsworth , English poet and diarist (born 1771 )January 26 – Gérard de Nerval (Gérard Labrunie), French poet and essayist (suicide, born 1808 )[5] February 4 – Gottfried Christian Friedrich Lücke , German theologian (born 1791 )March 31 – Charlotte Brontë , English novelist and poet (born 1816 )[6] June 29 – Delphine de Girardin , French poet and novelist (born 1804 )July 12 – Karl Spindler , German novelist, (born 1796 )September 4 – Emma Tatham , English poet (born 1829 )September 27 – John Adamson , English antiquary and scholar of Portuguese (born 1787 )November 11 – Søren Kierkegaard , Danish philosopher (born 1813 )November 19 – Mihály Vörösmarty , Hungarian poet and dramatist (born 1800 )November 26 – Adam Mickiewicz , Poland's national poet (cholera, born 1798 )December 3 – Robert Montgomery , English poet (born 1807 )Unknown date – Sunthorn Phu , Thai poet (born 1786 )References 
