1859 in literature
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See also: 1858 in literature, other events of 1859, 1860 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- The book, Adam Bede by George Eliot, was accused of being the "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind" in Britain and was consequently withdrawn from libraries.
New books
- Adam Bede - George Eliot
- Les Amants - Hector Malot
- Dora Deane - Mary Jane Holmes
- The Idylls of the King - Alfred Lord Tennyson
- The Last Athenian - Viktor Rydverg
- Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
- On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
- The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - George Meredith
- Rocambole - Pierre Ponson
- The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (poetry) - Edward Fitzgerald
- A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- The World of Ice - RM Ballantyne
Births
- June 8 – Mary Cholmondeley, English writer (d. 1925)
- March 8 - Kenneth Grahame (+ 1932)
- May 22 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (+ 1930)
- October 18 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher and winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in literature
- December 15 - L. L. Zamenhof, Russo-Polish initiator of Esperanto
Deaths
- November 28 - Washington Irving, author
- December 28 - Thomas Macaulay, poet, historian and politician