1856 in literature
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See also: 1855 in literature, other events of 1856, 1857 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- Adam Bede - George Eliot
- Aurora Leigh (poetry) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Benito Cereno - Herman Melville
- Cinco Minutos - José de Alencar
- Les Contemplations - Victor Hugo
- The Daisy Chain - Charlotte Mary Yonge
- The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins
- Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Ernest Linwood - Caroline Lee Hentz
- I and My Chimney - Herman Melville
- The Sorrows of Gentility - Geraldine Jewsbury
- The Young Fur-Traders - RM Ballantyne
Births
- April 5 - Booker T. Washington (+ 1915)
- May 15 - L. Frank Baum (+ 1919)
- July 26 - George Bernard Shaw (+ 1950)