Overview of the events of 1861 in literature
Overview of the events of 1861 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1861.
January 5 – The first issue of the Weekly Budget magazine is published by James Henderson .[1]
January 11 – Thirty-one-year-old John Edward Taylor the younger becomes sole editor and proprietor of the Manchester Guardian .[2]
March – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's monthly Vremya (Вре́мя, Time) begins publication in Saint Petersburg under the nominal editorship of his brother Mikhail . Fyodor's novel The House of the Dead (Записки из Мёртвого дома, Zapiski iz Myortvogo doma ) is first published in it this year.
April 23 – Herbert Coleridge , first editor of what will become the Oxford English Dictionary , dies aged 30 of tuberculosis in London. Frederick James Furnivall is appointed to succeed him.
May/July – The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce becomes The Times of India .
June 29 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies aged 55 in the arms of her husband and fellow poet Robert Browning in Florence ; on July 1 she is buried in the Protestant cemetery there. Robert leaves the city soon afterwards.
July – Sheridan Le Fanu becomes editor and proprietor of the Dublin University Magazine .[3] From October he begins in it the serialization of his novel The House by the Churchyard .
July 19 –24 – Rev. James Long is tried in Calcutta for defamation in distributing a translation of Dinabandhu Mitra 's play Nil Darpan .
August 3 – Serialization of Charles Dickens 's Bildungsroman Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round is concluded; in October it is published complete in three volumes by Chapman & Hall in London.
September 14 – Gottfried Keller becomes municipal secretary of his home town of Zürich .
September 19 – Mrs. Henry Wood 's 'sensation novel ' East Lynne is published in London in three volumes , as its serialisation is concluded in The New Monthly Magazine . This year also sees its first theatrical adaptation, as Edith, or The Earl's Daughter , staged in New York City .[4]
October 20 – Poet and dramatist Apollo Korzeniowski is arrested for his political activities and placed in the infamous Tenth Pavilion of Warsaw Citadel.
unknown date – The first modern New Zealand novel, Henry Butler Stoney's Taranaki: A Tale of the War , is published.
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January 6 – János Zsupánek , Slovene-Hungarian author and poet (died 1951 )
January 23 – Katharine Tynan , Irish-born novelist, poet and writer (died 1931 )
February 5 – Lulah Ragsdale , American poet, novelist, and actor (died 1953 )
February 22 — Mabelle Biggart , American elocutionist and writer (unknown year of death)
March 1 – Henry Harland , American novelist and editor (died 1905 )
March 10 – Pauline Johnson , Canadian poet (died 1913 )
April ? – Herminie Templeton Kavanagh , née McGibney, Anglo-Irish-American short story writer (died 1933 )
April 15 – Bliss Carman , Canadian-born poet (died 1929 )
May 5 – Sir John Edward Lloyd , Welsh historian (died 1947 )
May 7 – Rabindranath Tagore , Bengali poet and novelist (died 1941 )
May 13 – Margaret Marshall Saunders , Canadian author (died 1947 )
May 25 – Julia Boynton Green , American author and poet (died 1957 )
September 2 – Mircea Demetriade , Romanian poet and actor (died 1914 )
September 20 – Herbert Putnam , American Librarian of Congress (died 1955 )
October 16 – J. B. Bury , Irish historian (died 1927 )
November 8 – William Price Drury , English novelist, playwright and Royal Marines officer (died 1949 )
November 10 – Amy Levy , English novelist and essayist (died 1889 )
December 19 – Constance Garnett , née Black, English translator (died 1946 )
January 28 – Henri Murger , French novelist and poet (born 1808 )
January 29 – Catherine Gore , English novelist and dramatist (born 1798 )
February 20 – Eugène Scribe , French dramatist (born 1791 )
March 10 (February 26 O. S. ) – Taras Shevchenko , Ukrainian poet and artist (born 1814 )
April 1 – Lady Charlotte Bury , English novelist and diarist (born 1755 )
April 28 – Frances Mary Richardson Currer , English heiress and bibliophile (born 1785 )
May 23 – Edward Cardwell , English theologian (born 1787 )
June 7 – Patrick Brontë , Irish-born writer and cleric (born 1777 )
June 29 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning , English poet (born 1806 )
July 6 – Sir Francis Palgrave , English historian (born 1788 )
November 8 or November 9 - Maria da Felicidade do Couto Browne , early Portuguese woman poet (born 1797 )
November 13 – Arthur Hugh Clough , English poet (malaria; born 1819 )[7]
November 30
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