1879 in literature

1879 in literature
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List of years in literature (table)
… 1869 ^. 1870 ^. 1871 ^. 1872 ^. 1873 ^. 1874 ^. 1875 … 1876 1877 1878 -1879- 1880 1881 1882 … 1883 ^. 1884 ^. 1885 ^. 1886 ^. 1887 ^. 1888 ^. 1889 … In poetry: 1876 1877 1878 -1879- 1880 1881 1882
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The year 1879 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Non-fiction
5 Births
6 Deaths
7 Awards

Events

The Rabelais Club is founded in London, holding a literary dinner once every two months. High-profile members included novelists Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walter Besant, and George du Maurier.

New books

William Harrison Ainsworth - Beau Nash
Louisa May Alcott - Jack and Jill: A Village Story
Ethel Lynn Beers - "All Quiet Along The Potomac" and Other Poems
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- The Cloven Foot
- Vixen
Wilkie Collins
- The Fallen Leaves
- A Rogue's Life
Alphonse Daudet - Kings in Exile
Joris-Karl Huysmans - Les Soeurs Vatard
Henry James - Daisy Miller
Pierre Loti - Aziyadé
George Meredith - The Egoist
John Boyle O'Reilly - Moondyne
Samuel Vedanayakam Pillai - Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram
August Strindberg
- The Red Room
- Roda Rummet
Anthony Trollope
- Cousin Henry
- The Duke's Children
- John Caldigate
Jules Verne
- The Begum's Fortune
- Tribulations of a Chinaman in China

New drama

James Herne - Hearts of Oak
Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House
George Robert Sims - Crutch and Toothpick

Non-fiction

Births

January 1 - E. M. Forster (d. 1970)
April 14 - James Branch Cabell, (d. 1958)
October 2 - Wallace Stevens, poet (d. 1955)
December 24 - Émile Nelligan, poet (d. 1941)

Deaths

February 11 - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author
March 3 - Annie Keary, novelist
March 9 - Mark Prager Lindo, historian
March 19 - Claire Clairmont, lover of Lord Byron
April 8 - Anthony Panizzi, librarian
April 21 - George Hadfield, Radical author and politician
April 25 - Charles Tennyson Turner, poet
July 4 - Sarah Dorsey, novelist and historian
July 30 - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, poet and journalist
September 23 - Francis Kilvert, diarist
October 13 - Henry Charles Carey, economist
October 28 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, political economist
October 31
- Jacob Abbott, writer
- John Baldwin Buckstone, dramatist

Awards

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