1880 IN LITERATURE

The year '1880 in literature' involved some significant new books.

Contents

Events

New books

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ ''Pinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi is published in Italy.

New books

★ Henry Adams - '' (published anonymously)

★ Rhoda Broughton - ''Second Thoughts''

★ Wilkie Collins - ''Jezebel's Daughter''

★ Carlo Collodi - ''Pinocchio''

★ Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield - ''Endymion''

★ Fyodor Dostoevsky - ''The Brothers Karamazov''

★ Evelyn Everett-Green - ''Tom Tempest's Victory''

★ George Gissing - ''Workers in the Dawn''

★ Percy Greg - ''Across The Zodiac''

★ Ouida - ''Moths''

★ Johanna Spyri - ''Heidi's Formative Years''

★ Anthony Trollope - ''Ayala's Angel''

★ Mark Twain - ''A Tramp Abroad''

★ Jules Verne - ''The Demon of Cawnpore''

★ Lew Wallace - ''Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ''

★ Emile Zola - ''Nana''

Births

★ February 21 - Waldemar Bonsels, writer (+ 1952)

★ March 13 - Frank Thiess, writer (+ 1977)

★ March 30 - Sean O'Casey, dramatist (+ 1964)

★ June 17 - Carl Van Vechten, writer (+ 1964)

★ July 10 - Greye La Spina, writer (+ 1969)

★ November 6 - Robert Musil, novelist (+ 1942)

Deaths

★ February 12 - Karl Eduard von Holtei, poet and dramatist

★ February 17 - James Lenox, bibliophile

★ April 16 - Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, poet

★ May 8 - Gustave Flaubert, novelist

★ June 7 - Karl Christian Planck, philosopher

★ July 7 - Lydia Child, writer, activist

★ July 12 - Tom Taylor, dramatist and journalist

★ September 23 – Geraldine Jewsbury, British author

★ November 8 - Arthur Freeman, journalist (suicide)

★ December 22 - George Eliot, author

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Louis Edmond Duranty, novelist and critic

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★ James Planché, dramatist

Awards

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