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The year 1859 in literature involved some significant new books.
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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the "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind" in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and was consequently withdrawn from libraries.
- On 30 April, Charles Dickens's new weekly magazine All the Year Round is published for the first time, succeeding Household Words.
New books
- R M Ballantyne -The World of Ice
- Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Village of Stepanchikovo
- George Eliot
- Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov
- Mary Jane Holmes - Dora Deane
- Hector Malot - Les Amants
- George Meredith - The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
- Viktor Rydberg - The Last Athenian
- Harriet Beecher Stowe - The Minister's Wooing
- Leo Tolstoy - Family Happiness
- Ivan Turgenev - Home of the Gentry (Дворянское гнездо)
- Harriet E. Wilson - Our Nig
Poetry
Non-fiction
- Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species
- William Henry Harvey - Phycologia Australica
- Washington Irving - The Life of George Washington, Volume 5
- Søren Kierkegaard - The Point of View of My Work as an Author (published posthumously; first full publication)
- Karl Marx - Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
- John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
- Samuel Smiles - Self Help
Births
- March 8 - Kenneth Grahame (d. 1932)
- March 26 - A. E. Housman, poet (d. 1936)
- May 2 - Jerome K. Jerome, humorous writer (d. 1927)
- May 22 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (d. 1930)
- June 8 – Mary Cholmondeley, English writer (d. 1925)
- August 4 - Knut Hamsun, Nobel-Prize-winning author (d. 1952)
- September 26 - Irving Bacheller, journalist and writer (d. 1950)
- October 18 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher and winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in literature (d. 1941)
- December 15 - L. L. Zamenhof, Russo-Polish initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917)
Deaths
- January 20 - Bettina von Arnim, novelist
- January 21 - Henry Hallam, historian
- February 13 - Eliza Acton, cookbook author
- April 14 - Lady Morgan, novelist
- April 16 - Alexis de Tocqueville, historian and political author
- April 29 - Dionysius Lardner, scientific writer
- July 23 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, poet
- September 2 - Delia Bacon, Shakespearean scholar
- October 4 - Karl Baedeker, publisher
- November 7 - Auguste Hilarion, politician and writer
- November 16 - William Spalding, literary critic
- November 20 - Mountstuart Elphinstone, historian
- November 28 - Washington Irving, author
- December 8 - Thomas de Quincey, opium-eating author
- December 16 - Wilhelm Grimm, collector of fairy-tales
- December 28 - Thomas Macaulay, poet, historian and politician
Awards
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