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Overview of the events of 1856 in literature
Overview of the events of 1856 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1856 .
Events January 1 – M. H. Gill, printer to Dublin University , purchases the publishing and bookselling business of James McGlashan, renaming it McGlashan & Gill, the predecessor of Gill & Macmillan .[1] March – Charles Dickens buys Gads Hill Place in Kent (England) from fellow novelist Eliza Lynn . March 1 – Lewis Carroll chooses his pseudonym; on May 1 he takes up photography as a hobby.March 5 – The second Royal Opera House in Covent Garden , London, is destroyed by fire, as the first was in 1808.May – John Ruskin praises Henry Wallis 's painting of The Death of Chatterton George Meredith modelled for the painting.[2] July 19 –26 – Wilkie Collins ' "Anne Rodway", a story in diary form about a needlewoman and her fiancé investigating the murder of a friend, appears in Household Words [3] September 13 – Richard Francis Burton , while serving in the British Army in the Crimean War and engaged to Isabel Arundel, receives permission to set off on an expedition to the African Great Lakes .[4] September 29 – English actor Henry Irving makes his stage début at Sunderland as Gaston, Duke of Orleans, in Bulwer Lytton 's play Richelieu .October – Marian Evans, who has yet to adopt the pseudonym George Eliot , publishes an anonymous article, "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists", in the Westminster Review [5] October 1 –December 15 – Gustave Flaubert 's Madame Bovary: Mœurs de province Revue de Paris [1] November 6 – The first of George Eliot 's Scenes of Clerical Life Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine G. H. Lewes for anonymous publication.[6] November 18 – English-born actress Laura Keene opens her own theatre in New York City .November 20 – Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville spend time together while Hawthorne is United States consul in Liverpool .[7] unknown dates New books Fiction Children and young people Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births Sigmund freud ,(Austrian neurologist, father of psychoanalysis) [died 1939] January 9 – Lizette Woodworth Reese , American poet (died 1935 )[9] January 13 – Henrietta Stannard , English novelist (writing as John Strange Winter, died 1911 )February 14 – Frank Harris , Irish-born American journalist and memoirist (died 1931 )March 4 – Toru Dutt , multilingual Indian Bengali poet, novelist and translator (died 1877 )April 4 – Eva Allen Alberti , American dramatics teacher (died 1938 )April 5 – Booker T. Washington , African-American educator, author and orator (died 1915 )May 15 – L. Frank Baum , American children's writer, novelist and poet (died 1919 )[10] June 28 – Constantin Dobrescu-Argeș , Romanian journalist, playwright, and peasant activist (died 1903 )June 29 – Maria Cederschiöld , Swedish journalist and suffragette (died 1935 )June 6 – Kate Simpson Hayes , Canadian playwright and legislative librarian (died 1945 )July 25 – Charles Major , American novelist and lawyer (died 1913 )July 26 – George Bernard Shaw , Irish dramatist and critic (died 1950 )[11] August 8 – Thomas Anstey Guthrie (F. Anstey), English comic novelist and journalist (died 1934 )[12] August 20 – Jakub Bart-Ćišinski , Upper Sorbian poet, writer, playwright and translator (died 1909 )August 27 (August 15 O.S. ) – Ivan Franko , Ukrainian writer, translator and political activist (died 1916 )September 28 – Kate Douglas Wiggin , American children's writer and educator (died 1923 )October 14 – Vernon Lee , born Violet Paget, French-born English writer (died 1935 )October 17 – Jane Barlow , Irish novelist and poet (died 1917 )November 17 – Evelyn Everett-Green , English novelist and children's writer (died 1932 )December 21 – Tomas O'Crohan , Irish Gaelic writer and fisherman (died 1937 )unknown date – Anne Elliot , English novelist (died 1941 )Deaths January – James Baillie Fraser , Scottish travel writer (born 1783 ) February 17 – Heinrich Heine , German poet (born 1797 )April 26 – Pyotr Chaadaev , Russian philosopher (born 1794 )June 11 – Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen , German philologist (born 1780 )June 26 – Max Stirner , German philosopher (born 1806 )June 27 – Joseph Meyer , German publisher and encyclopedist (born 1796 )July 11 – Josef Kajetán Tyl , Czech dramatist and author of national anthem (born 1808 )July 21 – Emil Aarestrup , Danish poet (born 1800 )July 29 – Karel Havlíček Borovský , Czech poet, critic and publisher (tuberculosis, born 1821 )August 24 – William Buckland , English theologian and antiquary (born 1784 )August 30 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett , English humorist (typhoid, born 1811 )October 13 – Robert Christie , Canadian historian and journalist (born 1787 )November 10 – Johann Kaspar Zeuss , German historian and philologist (born 1806 )[13] Awards References 
