1858 in literature

none 1858 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1858. Events thumb|Edward Sothern as Lord Dundreary January 3 – The English critic John Ruskin first meets at her London home 10-year-old Rose La Touche, who becomes his muse.Robert Hewison Robert Hewison Ruskin, John (1819–1900) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 Online http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24291 2014-03-19 10.1093/ref:odnb/24291 April 29 – Charles Dickens embarks on his first professional tour giving readings from his works. This will involve 129 appearances in 49 towns throughout the British Isles.A Reader's Guide to Charles Dickens Hobsbaum Philip Philip Hobsbaum Syracuse University Press 1998 1972 978-0-8156-0475-4 https://archive.org/details/readersguidetoch00hobs registration 2012-04-20 https://archive.org/details/readersguidetoch00hobs/page/270] May 15 – The third Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, designed by Edward Middleton Barry, opens, having been rebuilt after its second destruction by fire in 1856. June 18 – Henrik Ibsen marries Suzannah Thoresen, in the same year that he becomes creative director of Oslo's National Theater. September – Charles Baudelaire's study on Théophile Gautier is published in Revue contemporaine. October 15 – The farce Our American Cousin by the English playwright Tom Taylor is first performed at Laura Keene's Theatre in New York City, with the American Joe Jefferson in the title rôle and the English actor Edward Askew Sothern as Lord Dundreary.Theater Week https://books.google.com/books?id=UCAIAQAAMAAJ 1994 That New Magazine, Incorporated 19 unknown date – Khachatur Abovian's historical novel Wounds of Armenia: Lamentation of a Patriot (Վերք Հայաստանի. ողբ հայրենասերի, Verk Hayastani), written in the Yerevan dialect in 1841, appears in Tiflis a decade after the author's presumed death; it is seen as the first Armenian novelHacikyan Agop Jack Agop Jack Hacikyan Basmajian Gabriel Franchuk Edward S. Ouzounian Nourhan The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the eighteenth century to modern times 2005 Wayne State University Press Detroit 9780814332214 213 and the first modern Eastern Armenian literary work.Nichanian Marc Writers of Disaster: Armenian Literature in the Twentieth Century 2002 Gomidas Institute Princeton, NJ 9781903656099 87Kazanjian David Loss: The Politics of Mourning 2003 University of California Press Los Angeles 9780520232365 144 New books Fiction William Harrison Ainsworth – The Life and Adventures of Mervyn Clitheroe Élie Berthet – La Bête du Gévaudan Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson – Arne Robert Barnabas Brough – The Life of Sir John Falstaff (novel) Edward Bulwer-Lytton – What Will He Do With It? George Eliot – Scenes of Clerical Life (January; first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine the previous year as three short stories) Octave Feuillet – Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre (Novel of a poor young man) Paul Féval – Le Bossu (The hunchback) Ernest-Aimé Feydeau – Fanny Elizabeth Gaskell – My Lady Ludlow Ivan Goncharov – Frigate "Pallada" («Фрегат "Паллада"») Catherine Gore – Heckington Bernardo Guimarães – Inspirações da Tarde Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville – Robert Emuret George MacDonald – Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women Abraham Mapu – Ayit Tzavua (Hypocrite Eagle) Aleksey Pisemsky Boyarschina One Thousand Souls Thomas Mayne Reid – Oceola John Hovey Robinson – Nick Whiffles or The Trapper Guide. A Tale of the North West Catharine Maria Sedgwick – Memoir of Joseph Curtis Anthony Trollope – Doctor Thorne Children and young people Frederic Farrar – Eric, or, Little by Little Annie Keary – The Rival Kings Countess of Ségur – Sophie's Misfortunes (Les Malheurs de Sophie) Charlotte Mary Yonge – The Christmas Mummers and other stories Drama Dion Boucicault – Jessie Brown; or the Relief of Lucknow (premiers on Feb.22)John Broderick Lynaugh The Forgotten Contributions and Comedies of Dion Boucicault https://books.google.com/books?id=0p_IAAAAMAAJ 1974 University of Wisconsin 234 William Wells Brown – The Escape; or, A Leap for FreedomLeo Hamalian James Vernon Hatch The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938 https://books.google.com/books?id=6PeI9RbmMDMC&pg=PA42 April 1992 Wayne State University Press 0-8143-2142-9 42 Thomas Holley Chivers – The Sons of Usna: a Tragic Apotheosis in Five Acts (published) Eugène Labiche – L'Avare en gants jaunesPronko, Leonard Cabell Eugene Labiche and Georges Feydeau https://books.google.com/books?id=2j9dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 1 April 1982 Macmillan International Higher Education 978-1-349-16731-9 47 John Oxenford – Porter's Knot Tom Taylor – Our American Cousin Poetry Matthew Arnold – Merope Alphonse Daudet – Les Amoureuses Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – The Courtship of Miles Standish William Morris – The Defence of Guinevere, and other Poems Non-fiction John Brown – Horas Subsecivae (Leisure Hours, three volumes) Gray's Anatomy, 1st edition William Carew Hazlitt – The History of the Origin and Rise of the Republic of Venice Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. – The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table William H. Prescott – History of Philip II, volume 3 Charles Piazzi Smyth – Teneriffe: An Astronomer's Experiment (illustrated by stereoscopic photographs) Dimitrie Ralet – Suvenire și impresii de călătorie în România, Bulgaria, Constantinopole (Souvenirs and Impressions of Travels in Romania, Bulgaria, Constantinople) Alfred Russel Wallace – On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type Births January 11 – Anna Braden, American author, editor, elocutionist (died 1939) January 21 – Anna Bowman Dodd, American author (died 1929) January 22 – Beatrice Webb (Beatrice Potter), English political writer (died 1943) January 24 – Constance Naden, English poet and philosopher (died 1889) January 27 – Neel Doff, Dutch-born French author (died 1942) February 19 – Charles Alexander Eastman, Native American author, physician, reformer, co-founder of Boy Scouts of America (died 1939)http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/studies_in_american_indian_literatures/v017/17.2ruoff.html Ruoff A. LaVonne Brown Eastman's Maternal Ancestry Studies in American Indian Literatures 2 17 2 10–17 2005 10.1353/ail.2005.0059 161273742 20 June 2022 subscription March 12 – Adolph Ochs, American newspaper publisher (died 1935) March 28 – Joséphin Péladan, French novelist (died 1918) April 1 – Gaetano Mosca, Italian political scientist and public servant (died 1941) April 15 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (died 1917) June 8 – Florence Hull Winterburn, American children's author (unknown year of death)Leonard John W. Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915 https://archive.org/details/womanswhoswhoam00leongoog 896 Public domain 1914 American commonwealth Company WINTERBURN, FLORENCE HULL June 20 – Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (died 1932) June 25 – Georges Courteline, French dramatist and novelist (died 1929) July 1 – Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor, and writer of prose and poetry (died 1924) July 24 – Wolfgang Kapp, Prussian journalist (died 1922) August 2 – William Watson, English poet (died 1935) August 3 – Paul Sabatier, French religious writer (died 1928) August 15 – E. Nesbit, English children's author (died 1924)E. Nesbit English author https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-Nesbit Encyclopedia Britannica 31 March 2019 en September 15 – Emma Augusta Sharkey, American writer, journalist, dime novelist (died 1902) October 2 – Emma A. Cranmer, American author, reformer, suffragist (died 1937) November 20 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer (died 1940)Selma Lagerlöf Swedish author https://www.britannica.com/biography/Selma-Lagerlof Encyclopedia Britannica 24 April 2020 en December 24 – Harriet Pritchard Arnold, American author (died 1901) December 26 – Owen Morgan Edwards, Welsh historian and educator (died 1920) Deaths January 8 – Caroline Cornwallis, English writer (born 1786)Cornwallis, Caroline Frances 12 February 13 – Hermann Heinrich Gossen, German economist (born 1810) February 26 – Thomas Tooke, English economist (born 1774) April 22 – Robert Stephen Rintoul, Scottish journalist (born 1787) May 3 – Auguste Brizeux, French poet (born 1803) May 12 – Georg Benedikt Winer, German theologian (born 1789) May 17 – Frank Forester, English novelist and sports writer (born 1807) June 3 – Edward Moxon, English poet and publisher (born 1801) June 28 – Jane Marcet, English writer of introductory science books (born 1769)Marcet, Jane 36 October 25 – Dimitrie Ralet, Moldavian essayist, dramatist, poet and propagandist (born 1816) November 3 – Harriet Taylor Mill, English philosopher (tuberculosis, born 1807)A. C. Grayling Andrew Pyle The Continuum encyclopedia of British philosophy https://books.google.com/books?id=nQgRAQAAMAAJ 2006 Thoemmes Continuum 978-1-84371-141-4 3121 November 15 – Johanna Kinkel, German writer and composer (born 1810)Monica Klaus Johanna Kinkel: Romantik und Revolution https://books.google.com/books?id=EIZclBPcO7YC&pg=PA322 2008 Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar 978-3-412-20175-3 322 de December 18 – Thomas Holley Chivers, American poet and physician (born 1809)Hugh Ruppersburg John C. Inscoe The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=JegLXYrq1bMC&pg=PA83 15 August 2011 University of Georgia Press 978-0-8203-4300-6 83 References 30em External links Published 1858 Books at Goodreads 1858 Books at Goodreads