1878 in literature
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See also: 1877 in literature, other events of 1878, 1879 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- January 28 - The Yale News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
- Guy de Maupassant becomes an employee of the Ministry of Public Instruction.
[edit] New books
- William Harrison Ainsworth - Beatrice Tyldesley
- Walter Besant and James Rice - The Monks of Thelema
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - An Open Verdict
- Wilkie Collins - The Haunted Hotel
- Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native
- Henry James - Daisy Miller
- William Hurrell Mallock - The New Republic
- Hector Malot - Sans Famille
- Margaret Oliphant - The Primrose Path
- José Maria Eça de Queirós - O Primo Basílio
- Anne Eliza Smith - Seola
- Harriet Beecher Stowe - Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives
- Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
- Émile Zola - Une Page d'amour
[edit] Non-fiction
- Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1st edition
- Friedrich Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches)
- Robert Louis Stevenson - An Inland Voyage
[edit] Births
- January 6 - Carl Sandburg, poet, historian (+ 1967)
- January 12 - Ferenc Molnár, writer (+ 1952)
- June 1 - John Masefield, poet (+ 1967)
- June 12 - James Oliver Curwood, American author (d. 1927)
- September 20 - Upton Sinclair (+ 1968)
[edit] Deaths
- February 1 - George Cruikshank, book illustrator
- April 24 - Heinrich Leo, historian
- April 25 - Anna Sewell, novelist
- July 1 - Catherine Winkworth, translator
- August 13
- George Gilfillan, poet and author
- Elizabeth Prentiss, poet and hymn-writer
- November 17 - Karl Theodor Keim, theologian
- date unknown - George Whyte-Melville, novelist
[edit] Awards
Masoud Torabi born, to become famous director.
Motion picture "The Vengeance" directed by Masoud Torabi takes place.
