1859 in literature

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The year 1859 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

February 1 - George Eliot's Adam Bede, her first full-length novel, is published by John Blackwood in the United Kingdom.^[1] Contemporary reviews are largely positive, describing it as "of the highest class"^[2] and "first-rate";^[3] however, it is also accused of being the "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind"^[4] and commercial circulating libraries refuse to stock it.^[5]
February 4 - German Biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf identifies substantial portions of the mid-4th century Codex Sinaiticus at Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai and arranges for its presentation to his patron, Tsar Alexander II of Russia at Saint Petersburg.
April 30 - Charles Dickens's new weekly magazine All the Year Round is published for the first time, succeeding Household Words.
September - 23-year-old Isabella Beeton's compilation Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management begins publication as a partwork supplement to The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (published by her husband Samuel Orchart Beeton in London) shortly after the birth of her second son.
November 26 - Wilkie Collins' sensation novel The Woman in White, an early example of mystery fiction, begins serialization in All the Year Round.

R. M. Ballantyne - The World of Ice
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Village of Stepanchikovo (Село Степанчиково и его обитатели, Selo Stepanchikovo i evo obitateli)
George Eliot
- Adam Bede
- The Lifted Veil
Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov (Обломов)
Mary Jane Holmes - Dora Deane
Hector Malot - Les Amants ("The Lovers")
George Meredith - The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Viktor Rydberg - Den siste Atenaren ("The Last Athenian")
George Sand
- Elle et lui
- L'Homme de neige
- Jean de la Roche
- Narcisse
Harriet Beecher Stowe - The Minister's Wooing
Leo Tolstoy - Family Happiness (Семейное счастье, Semeynoye Schast'ye; published in Russkiy vestnik)
Ivan Turgenev - Home of the Gentry (Дворянское гнездо, Dvorjanskoe gnezdo; published in Sovremennik, January)
Harriet E. Wilson - Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

March 8 - Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-born children's author (died 1932)
March 26 - A. E. Housman, English poet (died 1936)
May 2 - Jerome K. Jerome, English humorous writer (died 1927)
May 22
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish-born physician and prolific writer (died 1930)
- Tsubouchi Shōyō, born Tsubouchi Yūzō (坪内雄蔵), Japanese writer (died 1935)
June 8 - Mary Cholmondeley, English writer (died 1925)
August 4 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian Nobel-Prize-winning author (died 1952)
September 26 - Irving Bacheller, American journalist and writer (died 1950)
October 18 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher and winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in literature (died 1941)
December 5 - Sidney Lee, born Solomon Lee, English biographer (died 1926)
December 15 - L. L. Zamenhof, Russo-Polish initiator of Esperanto (died 1917)

January 20 - Bettina von Arnim, novelist, 73
January 21 - Henry Hallam, historian, 81
February 13 - Eliza Acton, cookbook author, 59
April 14 - Lady Morgan, novelist, 78
April 16 - Alexis de Tocqueville, historian and political author, 53 (tuberculosis)
April 29 - Dionysius Lardner, scientific writer, 66
July 23 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, poet, 73
September 2 - Delia Bacon, Shakespearean scholar, 48
October 4 - Karl Baedeker, publisher, 57
November 7 - Auguste Hilarion, politician and writer, 89
November 16 - William Spalding, literary critic, 50
November 20 - Mountstuart Elphinstone, historian, 80
November 28 - Washington Irving, short story writer, essayist, biographer and historian, 76
December 8 - Thomas de Quincey, "opium-eating" essayist, 74
December 16 - Wilhelm Grimm, collector of fairy-tales, 73
December 28 - Thomas Macaulay, poet, historian and politician, 59 (heart attack)

↑ "Adam Bede". SparkNotes. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
↑ The Athenæum.
↑ "Adam Bede". The Times (23278) (London). 1859-04-12. p. 5.
↑ Merkle, Denise (2009). "Viztelly & Company as (ex)change agent". In Milton, John; Bandia, Paul Fadio (ed). Agents of Translation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. p. 91. ISBN 9789027216908.
↑ "Banned books list". Bromley House Library.

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