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            List of years in literature       (table)
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1875 1876 1877 -1878- 1879 1880 1881
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     In poetry: 1875 1876 1877 -1878- 1879 1880 1881     
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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
  • Anna Katharine Green - The Leavenworth Case
  • Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native
  • Henry James
    • Daisy Miller
    • The Europeans
  • William Hurrell Mallock - The New Paul and Virginia
    • - 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 - Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives
  • Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
  • Jules Verne - Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen
  • Émile Zola - Une Page d'amour

Poetry[]

Main article: 1878 in poetry

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

Deaths[]

  • February 1 - George Cruikshank, book illustrator (b. 1792)
  • April 24 - Heinrich Leo, historian (b. 1799)
  • April 25 - Anna Sewell, novelist (b. 1820)
  • July 1 - Catherine Winkworth, translator (b. 1827)
  • August 13 - George Gilfillan, poet and author (b. 1813)
  • November 17 - Karl Theodor Keim, theologian (b. 1825)
  • December 19 - Bayard Taylor, poet (b. 1825)
  • date unknown - George Whyte-Melville, novelist (b. 1821)

Awards[]

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