1861 in literature

List of years in literature (table)
… 1851 ^. 1852 ^. 1853 ^. 1854 ^. 1855 ^. 1856 ^. 1857 … 1858 1859 1860 -1861- 1862 1863 1864 … 1865 ^. 1866 ^. 1867 ^. 1868 ^. 1869 ^. 1870 ^. 1871 … In poetry: 1858 1859 1860 -1861- 1862 1863 1864
Related time period or subjects
… 1858 ^. 1859 ^. 1860 - 1861 - 1862 ^. 1863 ^. 1864 … … 1830s ^. 1840s ^. 1850s -1860s- 1870s ^. 1880s ^. 1890s … 18th century ^. 19th century ^. 20th century …
Art ^. Archaeology ^. Architecture ^. Literature ^. Music ^. Science +...

The year 1861 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

October 20 - Poet and dramatist Apollo Korzeniowski is arrested for his political activities and placed in the infamous Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel.
Sheridan Le Fanu becomes editor of the Dublin University Magazine.
Gottfried Keller becomes municipal secretary of his home town of Zurich.
John Edward Taylor the younger becomes editor of the Manchester Guardian.
The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce becomes The Times of India.
Frederick James Furnivall becomes editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

January 28 - Henri Murger, novelist and poet
January 29, Catherine Gore, author
February 20 - Eugène Scribe, dramatist
April 1 - Lady Charlotte Bury, novelist
May 23 - Edward Cardwell, theologian
June 7 - Patrick Brontë, father of the Brontë sisters
June 29 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
July 6 - Sir Francis Palgrave, historian
November 13 - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet
November 30
- Alexander Gilchrist, biographer
- Theodor Mundt, novelist and critic