1858 in literature
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See also: 1857 in literature, other events of 1858, 1859 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Henrik Ibsen marries and becomes creative director of Oslo's National Theater.
- Charles Baudelaire's study on Théophile Gautier is published in Revue contemporaine.
- John Ruskin meets Rose la Touche.
[edit] New books
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Arne
- George Eliot - The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton
- Ernest-Aimé Feydeau - Fanny
- Catherine Gore - Heckington
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Memoir of Joseph Curtis
- Harriet Beecher Stowe - The Minister's Wooing
- Anthony Trollope - Doctor Thorne
- Ivan Turgenev - A House of Gentlefolk
[edit] Poetry
- Matthew Arnold - Merope
- Alphonse Daudet - Les Amoureuses
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Courtship of Miles Standish
- William Morris - The Defence of Guinevere, and other Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- William H. Prescott - History of Philip II, volume 3
- Alfred Russel Wallace - On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
[edit] Births
- January 22 - Beatrice Webb, political writer, wife and collaborator of Sidney Webb
- March 12 - Adolph Ochs, newspaper publisher
- April 15 - Émile Durkheim, sociologist
- June 25 – Georges Courteline, dramatist and novelist (d. 1929)
- July 24 - Wolfgang Kapp, journalist
- August 3 - Paul Sabatier, religious writer
- November 20 - Selma Lagerlöf Swedish writer (+ 1940)
- date unknown - Sir Owen Morgan Edwards, historian and educator (+ 1920)
- date unknown - William Watson, poet
[edit] Deaths
- January 15 - Louisa Cranstoun Nisbett ("Miss Mordaunt"), actress
- February 13 - Hermann Heinrich Gossen, economist
- February 26 - Thomas Tooke, economist
- May 3 - Julien Auguste Pélage Brizeux, poet
- May 12 - Georg Benedikt Winer, theologian
- May 17 - Frank Forester, novelist and sports writer
- June 3 - Edward Moxon, poet and publisher
- June 28 - Jane Marcet, author of science textbooks
- November 15 - Johanna Kinkel, writer and composer, wife of Gottfried Kinkel
- date unknown - Harriet Taylor Mill, philosopher
- date unknown - Robert Stephen Rintoul, journalist
