1861 in literature
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The year 1861 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
- Sheridan Le Fanu becomes editor of Dublin University Magazine.
- Gottfried Keller becomes municipal secretary of his home town of Zurich.
- John Edward Taylor the younger becomes editor of the Manchester Guardian.
- The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce becomes The Times of India.
- Frederick James Furnivall becomes editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
New books
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- The Black Band
- The Octoroon
- Frances Browne - My Share of the World
- Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Insulted and Humiliated
- George Eliot - Silas Marner
- Harriet Ann Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- George Sand - Consuelo
- Walter Chalmers Smith - The Bishop's Walk
- Anthony Trollope - Orley Farm
- George J. Whyte-Melville - Market Harborough
- Mrs Henry Wood - East Lynne
- Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Young Step-Mother
New drama
- Léon Gozlan - La Pluie et le beau temps
Poetry
- Charles Baudelaire - Les fleurs du mal, 2nd edition
Non-fiction
- Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - Writings on the U.S. Civil War
Births
- April 15 - Bliss Carman, poet (d. 1929)
- September 20 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
- October 16 - J. B. Bury, historian (d. 1927)
- May 13 - Margaret Marshall Saunders, author (d. 1947)
- date unknown - Sir John Edward Lloyd, historian (d. 1947)
Deaths
- January 28 - Henri Murger, novelist and poet
- January 29, Catherine Gore, author
- February 20 - Eugène Scribe, dramatist
- April 1 - Lady Charlotte Bury, novelist
- May 23 - Edward Cardwell, theologian
- June 7 - Patrick Brontë, father of the Bronte sisters
- June 29 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
- July 6 - Sir Francis Palgrave, historian
- November 13 - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet
- November 30
- Alexander Gilchrist, biographer
- Theodor Mundt, novelist and critic
Awards
16th century in literature – 1590s 15th century in literature 14th century in literature – Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer 13th century in literature – Parzival – Wolfram von Eschenbach
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