1878 in literature

1878 in literature

The year 1878 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*January 28 - "The Yale News" becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
*Guy de Maupassant becomes an employee of the Ministry of Public Instruction.

New books

*William Harrison Ainsworth - "Beatrice Tyldesley"
*Walter Besant and James Rice - "The Monks of Thelema"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "An Open Verdict"
*Wilkie Collins - "The Haunted Hotel"
*Thomas Hardy - "The Return of the Native"
*Henry James - "Daisy Miller"
*William Hurrell Mallock - "The New Republic"
*Hector Malot - "Sans Famille"
*Margaret Oliphant - "The Primrose Path"
*José Maria de Eça de Queiroz - "O Primo Basílio"
*Anne Eliza Smith - "Seola"
*Harriet Beecher Stowe - ""
*Leo Tolstoy - "Anna Karenina"
*Jules Verne - "Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen"
*Émile Zola - "Une Page d'amour"

Non-fiction

*"Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", 1st edition
*Friedrich Nietzsche - "Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches)"
*Robert Louis Stevenson - "An Inland Voyage"

Births

*January 6 - Carl Sandburg, poet, historian (+ 1967)
*January 12 - Ferenc Molnár, writer (+ 1952)
*June 1 - John Masefield, poet (+ 1967)
*June 12 - James Oliver Curwood, American author (d. 1927)
*September 20 - Upton Sinclair (+ 1968)

Deaths

*February 1 - George Cruikshank, book illustrator
*April 24 - Heinrich Leo, historian
*April 25 - Anna Sewell, novelist
*July 1 - Catherine Winkworth, translator
*August 13
**George Gilfillan, poet and author
**Elizabeth Prentiss, poet and hymn-writer
*November 17 - Karl Theodor Keim, theologian
*"date unknown" - George Whyte-Melville, novelist

Awards

*Newdigate prize - Oscar Wilde


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