This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1855.
Events
- January – Samuel Orchart Beeton's weekly The Boys' Own Magazine, "an illustrated journal of fact, fiction, history and adventure", begins publication in London.[1]
- January 5 – Anthony Trollope's novel The Warden, the first of his Chronicles of Barsetshire, is published in London by Longman as he begins to write the second, Barchester Towers.
- February 25 – The comedy De Scholtschäin, by Edmond de la Fontaine writing as Dicks, becomes the first play to be performed in the language of Luxembourg.[2]
- June 29 – The Daily Telegraph newspaper begins publication in London.
- July 4 – Walt Whitman's first edition of his book of poems titled Leaves of Grass is published in Brooklyn, New York.
- September 27 – Alfred Tennyson reads from his new book Maud and other poems at a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning in London. Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a sketch of him doing so.[3]
- October – Victor Hugo moves to Hauteville House, Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, accompanied by his mistress, Juliette Drouet.
- December
- unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
- David Brewster – Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton
- John Brown – Slave Life in Georgia
- Washington Irving – The Life of George Washington, Volumes 1 and 2
- George Sand – Histoire de ma vie (The Story of My Life)
- William Smith – Latin–English Dictionary based upon the works of Forcellini and Freund
- Leo Tolstoy – Sevastopol Sketches (Севастопольские рассказы, Sevastopolskiye rasskazy)
- Alfred Russel Wallace – On the Law Which has Regulated the Introduction of Species
Births
- February 21 – Elizabeth Robins Pennell, American biographer and critic based in London (died 1936)
- April 4 – Manonmaniam Sundaram Pillai, Indian dramatist (died 1897)
- April 27 – Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Irish novelist (died 1897)[8]
- May 1 – Marie Corelli (Mary Mackay), English novelist (died 1924)
- May 21 – Emile Verhaeren, Belgian Symbolist poet writing in French (died 1916)
- May 24 – Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, English dramatist (died 1934)
- July 7 – Ludwig Ganghofer, German novelist (died 1920)
- July 19 – Alexander Ertel, Russian novelist and short story writer (died 1908)
- August 7 – Stanley J. Weyman, English novelist (died 1928)
- September 12 – William Sharp, Scottish poet and biographer (died 1905)
- September 22 – Alice Zimmern, English writer, translator and suffragist (died 1939)
- October 30 – Pyotr Gnedich, Russian writer and poet (died 1925)
- November 4 – William Ritchie Sorley, Scottish philosopher (died 1935)
- December 15 – Maurice Bouchor, French poet and sculptor (died 1929)
- December 28 – Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, Uruguayan poet (died 1931)[9]
- unknown date – Solomon Cleaver, Canadian story teller, novelist and pastor (died 1939)
Deaths
- January 3 – János Majláth, Hungarian poet and historian (born 1786)
- January 10 – Mary Russell Mitford, English dramatist and novelist (born 1787)
- January 25 – Dorothy Wordsworth, English poet and diarist (born 1771)
- January 26 – Gérard de Nerval (Gérard Labrunie), French poet and essayist (suicide, born 1808)[10]
- February 4 – Gottfried Christian Friedrich Lücke, German theologian (born 1791)
- March 31 – Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet (born 1816)[11]
- June 29 – Delphine de Girardin, French poet and novelist (born 1804)
- July 12 – Karl Spindler, German novelist, (born 1796)
- September 4 – Emma Tatham, English poet (born 1829)
- September 27 – John Adamson, English antiquary and scholar of Portuguese (born 1787)
- November 11 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (born 1813)
- November 19 – Mihály Vörösmarty, Hungarian poet and dramatist (born 1800)
- November 26 – Adam Mickiewicz, Poland's national poet (cholera, born 1798)
- December 3 – Robert Montgomery, English poet (born 1807)
- unknown date – Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (born 1786)
References
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