1880 in literature

List of years in literature (table)
... 1870 ^. 1871 ^. 1872 ^. 1873 ^. 1874 ^. 1875 ^. 1876 ... 1877 1878 1879 -1880- 1881 1882 1883 ... 1884 ^. 1885 ^. 1886 ^. 1887 ^. 1888 ^. 1889 ^. 1890 ... In poetry: 1877 1878 1879 -1880- 1881 1882 1883

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The year 1880 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

April - Publication in France of Les Soirées de Médan, a collection of six Naturalist short stories set during the Franco-Prussian War by six authors who frequent Zola's home, including Guy de Maupassant's first, Boule de Suif, which launches his career.
October - Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady begins serial publication in Macmillan's Magazine (U.K.) and The Atlantic Monthly (U.S.)
December 15 - First performance of a play by Henrik Ibsen in English, The Pillars of Society (under the title Quicksands) at the Gaiety Theatre, London.^[1]
Karl May begins publishing his Orient Cycle in Deutschen Hausschatz, where he also publishes Deadly Dust: Ein Abenteuer aus dem nordamerikanischen Westen.
In the United States, the publishing business of Henry Oscar Houghton and George H. Mifflin is reconstructed as Houghton, Mifflin and Company.

Henry Adams (anonymously) - Democracy: An American Novel
Rhoda Broughton - Second Thoughts
Wilkie Collins - Jezebel's Daughter
Carlo Collodi - The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio)
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield - Endymion
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov (Братья Карамазовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy)
Amelia Edwards - Lord Brackenbury
Evelyn Everett-Green - Tom Tempest's Victory
Theodor Fontane
- Grete Minde
- Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg
George Gissing - Workers in the Dawn
Walter T. Gray (Metta Victoria Fuller Victor) - A Bad Boy's Diary
Percy Greg - Across the Zodiac
Anna Katharine Green - A Strange Disappearance
Thomas Hardy - The Trumpet-Major
Alexander Kielland - Garman og Worse
Pierre Loti - Le Mariage de Loti (as Rarahu)
Ouida - Moths
Louisa Parr - Adam and Eve
Johanna Spyri - Heidi
Anthony Trollope - Ayala's Angel
Mark Twain - A Tramp Abroad
Giovanni Verga - Vita dei campi ("The life of the fields", short stories, including Cavalleria rusticana ("Rustic chivalry"))
Jules Verne - The Steam House (La maison à vapeur)
Lew Wallace - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Émile Zola - Nana

February 21 – Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (died 1952)
March 13 – Frank Thiess, German writer (died 1977)
March 21 – E. H. Young, English novelist (died 1949)
March 30 – Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (died 1964)
June 17 – Carl Van Vechten, American writer (died 1964)
July 4 – Anne Beffort, Luxembourg literary writer and biographer (died 1966)
July 10 – Greye La Spina, American writer (died 1969)
September 12 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist and English language scholar (died 1956)
November 1 – Grantland Rice, American sports writer (died 1954)
November 6 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (died 1942)
November 25 – Elsie J. Oxenham (Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley), English story writer for girls (died 1960)

February 12 – Karl Eduard von Holtei, German poet and dramatist (born 1798)
February 17 – James Lenox, American bibliophile (born 1800)
April 9 – Louis Edmond Duranty, French novelist and critic (born 1833)
April 16 – Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, Irish writer and barrister (born 1819)
May 6 – Ivan Surikov, Russian poet (born 1841)
May 8 – Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (born 1821)
May 30 – James Planché, English dramatist (born 1796)
June 7 – Karl Christian Planck, German philosopher (born 1819)
July 7 – Lydia Maria Child, American writer and abolitionist (born 1802)
July 12 – Tom Taylor, English dramatist and journalist (born 1817)
September 23 – Geraldine Jewsbury, English novelist and woman of letters (born 1812)
December 22 – George Eliot (Mary Anne Cross), English novelist (born 1819)