1878 in literature

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The year 1878 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.

Events

January 28 - The Yale News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
June - Robert Louis Stevenson's three linked detective fiction short stories The Suicide Club featuring Prince Florizel begin publication in The London Magazine.
June 10 - Konrad Korzeniowski, the future English-language novelist Joseph Conrad, sets foot on British soil for the first time, at Lowestoft from the SS Mavis.
August 3 - Guy de Maupassant writes to Gustave Flaubert, complaining about the monotony of his life and his new job as an employee of the Ministry of Public Instruction in France.^[1]
October - The Peabody Institute Library (later George Peabody Library) opens to the public in Baltimore, Maryland.^[2]
December 30 - Henry Irving's production of Hamlet, with himself in the title rôle playing opposite Ellen Terry as Ophelia, opens at the Lyceum Theatre, London (of which they have taken over the management).^[3]
Undated
- The Johns Hopkins University Press is established in Baltimore, Maryland, as the "University Publication Agency", making it the oldest continuously operating university press in the United States.^[4]
- The Remington No. 2 typewriter, the first with a shift key enabling production of lower as well as upper case characters, is introduced in the United States.

January 6 – Carl Sandburg, American poet, historian (died 1967)
January 12 – Ferenc Molnár (Ferenc Neumann), Hungarian playwright and novelist (died 1952)
March 14 – Victor Bridges, English novelist, playwright and poet (died 1972)
June 1 – John Masefield, English poet (died 1967)
June 12 – James Oliver Curwood, American author (died 1927)
September 20 – Upton Sinclair, American novelist (died 1968)
November 25 – Georg Kaiser, German dramatist (died 1945

January 19 – Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (born 1814)
February 1 – George Cruikshank, English illustrator (born 1792)
April 24 – Heinrich Leo, Prussian historian (born 1799)
April 25 – Anna Sewell, English novelist (born 1820)
May 28 – Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier, Lithuanian novelist (born 1790)
July 1 – Catherine Winkworth, English translator (born 1827)
August 13
- George Gilfillan, Scottish poet and author (born 1813)
- Elizabeth Prentiss, American poet and hymnist (born 1818)
November 17 – Karl Theodor Keim, German theologian (born 1825)
December 5 – George Whyte-Melville, Scottish-born novelist (hunting accident, born 1821)
December 19 – Bayard Taylor, American poet (born 1825)

↑ Julian Barnes, "On We Sail", London Review of Books, 5 November 2009. Accessed 5 January 2014
↑ "History". The George Peabody Library. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University. 2005. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
↑ Shearer, Moira (1998). Ellen Terry. Pocket Biographies. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. p. 69. ISBN 0-7509-1526-9.
↑ Camhi, Jeff (2013). A Dam in the River: Releasing the Flow of University Ideas. New York: Algora Publishing. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-87586-989-6. Retrieved 2013-08-31.
↑ Theodor Fontane: Vor dem Sturm. Roman aus dem Winter 1812 auf 13. Hrsg. von Christine Hehle. Berlin 2011 (Große Brandenburger Ausgabe, Das erzählerische Werk, Bd. 1 und 2). ISBN 978-3-351-03114-5 (German)
↑ Piero Gondolo della Riva. Bibliographie analytique de toutes les œuvres de Jules Verne. Tome I. Société Jules Verne. 1977.
↑ id=jD2gHAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y Oscar Wilde, "Ravenna". Accessed 5 January 2014