1855 in literature
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[edit] Events
- July 4 - In Brooklyn, New York, Walt Whitman's first edition of his book of poem's 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
- Aurelia - Gérard de Nerval
- Debit and Credit - Gustav Freytag
- The Hidden Path - Mary Virginia Hawes
- Israel Potter - Herman Melville
- Leaves of Grass (poetry) - Walt Whitman
- A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev
- The Old Homestead - Ann Sophia Stephens
- The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids - Herman Melville
- Robert Graham - Caroline Lee Hentz
- The Story of My Life - George Sand
- The Warden - Anthony Trollope
- Westward Ho! - Charles Kingsley
[edit] New drama
- Émile Augier - Ménage d'Olympe
- Léon Gozlan - Le Gâteau des reines
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- David Brewster - Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton
- 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)
- 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
