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

Contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

New Books

• Arne - Bjornstjerne Bjornson
• The Courtship of Miles Standish (poetry) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Defence of Guenevere (poetry) - William Morris
• Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope
• 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

Births

• June 25 – Georges Courteline, dramatist and novelist (d. 1929)
• November 20 - Selma Lagerlof Swedish writer (+ 1940)

Deaths

Awards