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The year 1856 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events[]
- Arthur Schopenhauer adds a chapter on "The Metaphysics of Sexual Love" to the third edition of his The World as Will and Representation.
- Lewis Carroll takes up photography as a hobby.
- William Henry Smith first makes the claim that the author of Shakespeare's plays was Sir Francis Bacon.
- Richard Francis Burton serves in the army in the Crimean War and becomes engaged to Isabel Arundel.
- Alphonse Daudet begins his teaching career.
- On March 5, the second Royal Opera House at Covent Garden is destroyed by fire (as the first was in 1808).
New books[]
- Anonymous - Tit for Tat
- José de Alencar - Cinco minutos
- R M Ballantyne -The Young Fur-Traders
- Fredrika Bremer - Hertha
- William M. Burwell - White Acre vs. Black Acre
- Wilkie Collins - The Dead Secret
- Caroline Lee Hentz - Ernest Linwood
- Geraldine Jewsbury - The Sorrows of Gentility
- Gottfried Keller - Die Leute von Seldwyla
- Herman Melville
- The Piazza Tales
- I and My Chimney
- Eduard Mörike - Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag
- Charles Reade - It's Never Too Late to Mend
- Harriet Beecher Stowe - Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
- Leo Tolstoy - Youth
- Ivan Turgenev - Rudin
- Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Daisy Chain
New drama[]
- Henrik Ibsen - Olaf Liljekrans
Poetry[]
- Main article: 1856 in poetry
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Aurora Leigh
- Victor Hugo - Les Contemplations
Non-fiction[]
- Lord Dufferin -Letters From High Latitudes
- J. A. Froude - History of England
- Washington Irving - The Life of George Washington, Volume 3
- Hermann Lotze - Mikrokosmos
- William Ridley - gurre kamilaroi
- Alexis de Tocqueville - L'Ancien régime et la révolution
- Henry Morley - Cornelius Agrippa: The Life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Doctor and Knight, Commonly known as a Magician.
Births[]
- January 9 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, poet (d. 1935)
- February 14 - Frank Harris, journalist, publisher and memoirist (d. 1931)
- April 5 - Booker T. Washington (d. 1915)
- May 15 - L. Frank Baum, Wizard of Oz author (d. 1919)
- July 25 - Charles Major (d. 1913)
- July 26 - George Bernard Shaw, dramatist (d. 1950)
- date unknown - Maria Cederschiöld, journalist
Deaths[]
- January - James Baillie Fraser, travel writer
- February 17 - Heinrich Heine, poet
- June 11 - Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen, philologist
- June 26 - Max Stirner, philosopher
- June 27 - Joseph Meyer, publisher
- July 21 - Emil Aarestrup, poet
- July 29 - Karel Havlíček Borovský, poet, critic and publisher
- August 24 - William Buckland, antiquarian
- August 30 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, humorous writer
- October 13 - Robert Christie, historian and journalist
- November 10 - Johann Kaspar Zeuss, historian
- date unknown - Pyotr Chaadaev, philosopher
- date unknown - Josef Kajetán Tyl, dramatist and author of the Czech national anthem
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