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Books - 1858 in literature


See also: 1857 in literature
, other events of 1858, 1859 in literature
, list of years in literature.

Events

  • Henrik Ibsen marries and becomes creative director of Oslo's National Theater.

New books

  • Arne - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
  • Doctor Thorne
    - Anthony Trollope
  • Fanny - Ernest-Aimé Feydeau
  • Heckington - Catherine Gore
  • A House of Gentlefolk - Ivan Turgenev
  • Memoir of Joseph Curtis - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
  • The Minister's Wooing
    - Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton - George Eliot

Poetry

  • Matthew Arnold - Merope
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Courtship of Miles Standish
  • William Morris - The Defence of Guinevere, and other Poems

Births

  • January 22 - Beatrice Webb, political writer, wife and collaborator of Sidney Webb
  • March 12 - Adolph Ochs, newspaper publisher
  • June 25 – Georges Courteline, dramatist and novelist (d. 1929)
  • July 24 - Wolfgang Kapp, journalist
  • August 3 - Paul Sabatier, religious writer
  • November 20 - Selma Lagerlöf Swedish writer (+ 1940)
  • date unknown - Sir Owen Morgan Edwards, historian and educator (+ 1920)
  • date unknown - William Watson, poet

Deaths

  • February 26 - Thomas Tooke, economist
  • May 3 - Julien Auguste Pélage Brizeux, poet
  • May 12 - Georg Benedikt Winer, theologian
  • May 17 - Frank Forester, novelist and sports writer
  • June 3 - Edward Moxon, poet and publisher
  • June 28 - Jane Marcet, author of science textbooks
  • date unknown - Harriet Taylor Mill, philosopher
  • date unknown - Robert Stephen Rintoul, journalist

Awards

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