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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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