1858 in literature
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See also: 1857 in literature, other events of 1858, 1859 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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
- 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
Births
- June 25 – Georges Courteline, dramatist and novelist (d. 1929)
- November 20 - Selma Lagerlöf Swedish writer (+ 1940)