1861 in literature

See also: 1860 in literature, other events of 1861, 1862 in literature, list of years in literature. \n

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

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New Books

\n*The Black Band - Mary Elizabeth Braddon \n*The Cloister and the Hearth - Charles Reade\n*Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope\n*Great Expectations - Charles Dickens\n*Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Ann Jacobs\n*Market Harborough - George J Whyte-Melville\n*The Octoroon - Mary Elizabeth Braddon \n*Orley Farm - Anthony Trollope\n*Silas Marner - George Eliot\n*The Young Step-Mother - Charlotte Mary Yonge \n

Births

\n* April 15 - Bliss Carman, poet (d. 1929)\n* October 16 - J. B. Bury, historian (d. 1927)

Deaths

\n* January 29, Catherine Gore, author\n* June 29 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet \n

Awards

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