1856 in literature

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Events

Prose

• Harriet Beecher Stowe's second novel, Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp appears. In the letter that convinced abolitionist of the Great Dismal Swamp Maroons, dismissed or runaway slaves, who have settled in difficult conditions in the Great Dismal Swamp, a vast swamp in Virginia and North Carolina.
• Gustave Flaubert published the company 's novel Madame Bovary in the arts section of the Revue de Paris, giving him - even though the novel was published in censored form - immediately a process of " breach of good manners " enters. Among other things, it is " glorification of adultery " accused.

• In Vieweg Verlag the first five novels The people of Seldwyla appear in Gottfried Keller's novella cycle. The second volume will be published in 1874.
• Wilhelm Raabe published his first novel, The Chronicle of the Sperlingsgasse.
• Besides a further edition of the German fairy tale book Ludwig Bechstein published for the first time his new German fairy tale book.
• Fritz Reuter published the novel My father Stavenhagen.

Poetry

• The second edition of Walt Whitman's poetry collection Leaves of Grass ( grass ) already contains 34 poems. The first edition was published in the previous year consisted of only twelve poems.

Drama

• Gyges and his ring - Friedrich Hebbel
• The Feast at Solhoug - Henrik Ibsen

Periodicals

• Leopold sun man founded the Frankfurter Annual Report. The sheet changes in the same year his name in Frankfurt trade newspaper.
• In Leipzig, the first time the German Gymnastics newspaper is published. The sports magazine is founded as a press organ of the German Gymnastics Federation and initially edited by Ernst Keil. The DTZ is the first significant paper in Germany, which deals with questions of gymnastics.

Born

• January 3: Clara Anhuth, German writer and librarian ( † after 1920)
• JANUARY 25: Pierre Decourcelle, French writer († 1926)

• FEBRUARY 3: Georg Winter, German archivist and historian († 1912)
• FEBRUARY 14: Frank Harris, Irish- English writer and editor († 1931)
• FEBRUARY 20: Jean Fernand- Lafargue, French writer († 1903)
• February 25: Alfred Tuck, German literature historian († 1930)

• March 3: Gustav Davis, Austrian journalist and newspaper editor († 1951)
• March 9: Hermann Iseke, German poet († 1907)

• April 5: Booker T. Washington, American educator, author, social reformer and Schwarzenrechtler († 1915)
• April 15: Jean Moréas, French - Greek poet († 1910)

• June 6: George Lacy Hillier, English cyclist and author († 1941)
• June 22: Henry Rider Haggard, British writer († 1925)
• JULY 26: George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate in Literature († 1950)

• August 20: Jakub Bart - Cisinski, Sorbian poet († 1909)
• AUGUST 27: Ivan Franko, Ukrainian poet and writer († 1916)
• September 28: Kate Douglas Wiggin, American educator and author († 1923)

• November 22: Helene Böhlau, German writer († 1940)
• December 20: Ferdinand Avenarius, German poet († 1923)
• December 30: Conradine Stinde, German author († 1925)

Died