Editing 1861 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1861.

==Events==
*[[January 5]]  –  The first issue of the ''[[Weekly Budget]]'' magazine is published by [[James Henderson (publisher)|James Henderson]].<ref name=victorian>[http://www.victorianperiodicals.com/series3/single_sample.asp?id=126537  "North British Weekly Budget", ''Victorian Periodicals'']. Retrieved 22 November 2020</ref>  
*[[January 11]] – Thirty-one-year-old [[John Edward Taylor#Legacy|John Edward Taylor]] the younger becomes sole editor and proprietor of the ''[[The Guardian|Manchester Guardian]]''.<ref name="Commons1868">{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons|title=Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tCdcAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA10-PA18|year=1868|publisher=Ordered to be printed|pages=10–}}</ref>
*March – [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]]'s monthly ''[[Vremya (magazine)|Vremya]]'' (Вре́мя, Time) begins publication in [[Saint Petersburg]] under the nominal editorship of his brother [[Mikhail Dostoyevsky|Mikhail]]. Fyodor's novel ''[[The House of the Dead (novel)|The House of the Dead]]'' (Записки из Мёртвого дома, ''Zapiski iz Myortvogo doma'') is first published in it this year.
*[[April 23]] – [[Herbert Coleridge]], first editor of what will become the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', dies aged 30 of [[tuberculosis]] in London. [[Frederick James Furnivall]] is appointed to succeed him.
*May/July – ''The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce'' becomes ''[[The Times of India]]''.
*[[June 29]] – [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] dies aged 55 in the arms of her husband and fellow poet [[Robert Browning]] in [[Florence]]; on [[July 1]] she is buried in the Protestant cemetery there. Robert leaves the city soon afterwards.
*July – [[Sheridan Le Fanu]] becomes editor and proprietor of the ''[[Dublin University Magazine]]''.<ref>W. J. McCormack (1997), ''Sheridan Le Fanu.'' Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. {{ISBN|0-7509-1489-0}} pp. 198–199.</ref> From October he begins in it the serialization of his novel ''[[The House by the Churchyard]]''.
*[[July 19]]–[[July 24|24]] –  Rev. James Long is tried in [[Calcutta]] for defamation in distributing a translation of [[Dinabandhu Mitra]]'s play ''[[Nil Darpan]]''.
*[[August 3]] – Serialization of [[Charles Dickens]]'s ''[[Bildungsroman]]'' ''[[Great Expectations]]'' in his magazine ''[[All the Year Round]]'' is concluded; in October it is published complete in three volumes by [[Chapman & Hall]] in London.
*[[September 14]] – [[Gottfried Keller]] becomes municipal secretary of his home town of [[Zürich]].
*[[September 19]] – [[Mrs. Henry Wood]]'s '[[sensation novel]]' ''[[East Lynne]]'' is published in London [[three-volume novel|in three volumes]], as its serialisation is concluded in ''[[The New Monthly Magazine]]''. This year also sees its first theatrical adaptation, as ''Edith, or The Earl's Daughter'', staged in [[New York City]].<ref>[[Oxford World's Classics]] edition.</ref>
*[[October 20]] – Poet and dramatist [[Apollo Korzeniowski]] is arrested for his political activities and placed in the infamous Tenth Pavilion of [[Warsaw]] Citadel.
*''unknown date'' –  The first modern New Zealand novel, Henry Butler Stoney's ''Taranaki: A Tale of the War'', is published.

==New books==
===Fiction===
* [[William Harrison Ainsworth]] – ''[[The Constable of the Tower]]''
*[[Mary Elizabeth Braddon]]
**''The Black Band''
**''The Octoroon''
**"[[The Trail of the Serpent]]" 
*[[Frances Browne]] – ''My Share of the World''
*[[Charles Dickens]] – ''[[Great Expectations]]''
*[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] – ''[[Humiliated and Insulted]] (Униженные и оскорблённые, Unizhennye i oskorblyonye)''
*[[George Eliot]] – ''[[Silas Marner]]''
*[[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]] – ''[[Elsie Venner]]'' (previously serialized beginning in 1859)
*[[Josip Jurčič]] – ''Pripovedka o beli kači'' (The Tale of the White Snake)
*[[Balduin Möllhausen]] – ''Die Halbindianer'' (The Halfbreeds)
*[[Charles Reade]] – ''[[The Cloister and the Hearth]]''
*Seeley Regester ([[Metta Victoria Fuller Victor]]) – ''Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation "Children", or, Holiday-week on a Louisiana Estate: a Slave Romance''<ref>{{cite web |title=Metta Victor |url=http://chnm.gmu.edu/dimenovels/the-authors/metta-victor |publisher=American Women's Dime Novel Project |accessdate=2013-11-04}}</ref>
*[[George Sand]] – ''[[Consuelo (novel)|Consuelo]]''
*[[Walter Chalmers Smith]] – ''The Bishop's Walk''
*[[William Makepeace Thackeray]] – ''[[The Adventures of Philip]]''
*[[Anthony Trollope]]
**''[[Framley Parsonage]]'' (book form)
**''[[Orley Farm (novel)|Orley Farm]]'' (publication begins)
*[[George J. Whyte-Melville]] – ''Market Harborough''
*[[Ellen Wood (author)|Mrs Henry Wood]] – ''[[East Lynne]]''
*[[Charlotte M. Yonge]] – ''The Young Step-Mother''

===Children===
*[[R. M. Ballantyne]] – ''[[The Gorilla Hunters]]''
*[[Mary Louise Peebles]] (as Lynde Palmer) – ''The Little Captain''

===Drama===
*[[Henry James Byron]] – ''Aladdin, or, The Wonderful Scamp''
*[[Léon Gozlan]] – ''La Pluie et le beau temps'' (Rain and Fine Weather)
*[[Alexander Griboyedov]] (died 1829) – ''[[Woe from Wit]]'' (first full publication)
*[[Imre Madách]] – ''[[The Tragedy of Man]] (Az ember tragédiája)''

===Poetry===
*[[Charles Baudelaire]] – ''Les Fleurs du mal'', 2nd edition
*[[Michael Madhusudan Dutt]] – ''Meghnad Badh Kabya'' (''মেঘনাদবধ কাব্য'', Slaying of Meghnad)
*''[[Hymns Ancient and Modern]]''<ref>{{cite web |publisher=SCM-Canterbury Press |url=http://www.scm-canterburypress.co.uk/CorpHistory.asp |title=A History of Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd |accessdate=2011-01-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205070542/http://www.scm-canterburypress.co.uk/CorpHistory.asp |archive-date=2008-12-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald]] – ''[[Kalevipoeg]]'' ([[Estonia]]n national epic, publication begins)
*[[Francis Turner Palgrave|F. T. Palgrave]] – ''[[Palgrave's Golden Treasury|Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics]]'' (anthology)

===Non-fiction===
*[[Isabella Beeton]] – ''[[Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management]]''
*[[Michael Faraday]] – ''[[The Chemical History of a Candle]]''
*[[Harriet Jacobs]] (as Linda Brent) – ''[[Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl]]''
*[[Eliphas Lévi]] – ''La Clef des grands mystères'' (The Key to Great Mysteries)
*[[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] – ''Writings on the U.S. Civil War''
*[[Narmadashankar Dave]] – ''[[Narmakosh]]'' (vol. 1)
*[[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]] – ''La Guerre et la paix'' (War and Peace)

==Births==
*[[January 6]] – [[János Zsupánek]], Slovene-Hungarian author and poet (died [[1951 in literature|1951]])
*[[January 23]] – [[Katharine Tynan]], Irish-born novelist, poet and writer (died [[1931 in literature|1931]])
*[[February 5]] – [[Lulah Ragsdale]], American poet, novelist, and actor  (died [[1953 in literature|1953]])
*[[February 22]] — [[Mabelle Biggart]], American elocutionist and writer (unknown year of death)
*[[March 1]] – [[Henry Harland]], American novelist and editor (died [[1905 in literature|1905]])
*[[March 10]] – [[Pauline Johnson]], Canadian poet (died [[1913 in literature|1913]])
*April ? – [[Herminie Templeton Kavanagh]], née McGibney, Anglo-Irish-American short story writer (died [[1933 in literature|1933]])
*[[April 15]] – [[Bliss Carman]], Canadian-born poet (died [[1929 in literature|1929]])
*[[May 5]] – Sir [[John Edward Lloyd]], Welsh historian (died [[1947 in literature|1947]])
*[[May 7]] – [[Rabindranath Tagore]], Bengali poet and novelist (died [[1941 in literature|1941]])
*[[May 13]] – [[Margaret Marshall Saunders]], Canadian author (died [[1947 in literature|1947]])
*[[May 25]] – [[Julia Boynton Green]], American author and poet (died [[1957 in literature|1957]])
*[[September 2]] – [[Mircea Demetriade]], Romanian poet and actor (died [[1914 in literature|1914]])
*[[September 20]] – [[Herbert Putnam]], American Librarian of Congress (died [[1955 in literature|1955]])
*[[October 16]] – [[J. B. Bury]], Irish historian (died [[1927 in literature|1927]])
*[[November 8]] – [[William Price Drury]], English novelist, playwright and [[Royal Marines]] officer (died [[1949 in literature|1949]])
*[[November 10]] – [[Amy Levy]], English novelist and essayist (died [[1889 in literature|1889]])
*[[December 19]] – [[Constance Garnett]], née Black, English translator (died [[1946 in literature|1946]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 28]] – [[Henri Murger]], French novelist and poet (born [[1808 in literature|1808]])
*[[January 29]] – [[Catherine Gore]], English novelist and dramatist (born [[1798 in literature|1798]])
*[[February 20]] – [[Eugène Scribe]], French dramatist (born [[1791 in literature|1791]])
*[[March 10]] (February 26 [[Old Style and New Style dates|O. S.]]) – [[Taras Shevchenko]], Ukrainian poet and artist (born [[1814 in literature|1814]])
*[[April 1]] – [[Lady Charlotte Bury]], English novelist and diarist (born [[1775 in literature|1755]])
*[[April 28]] – [[Frances Mary Richardson Currer]], English heiress and bibliophile (born [[1785 in literature|1785]])
*[[May 23]] – [[Edward Cardwell]], English theologian (born [[1787 in literature|1787]])
*[[June 7]] – [[Patrick Brontë]], Irish-born writer and cleric (born [[1777 in literature|1777]])
*[[June 29]] – [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], English poet (born [[1806 in literature|1806]])
*[[July 6]] – Sir [[Francis Palgrave]], English historian (born [[1788 in literature|1788]])
*[[November 8]] or [[November 9]] - [[Maria da Felicidade do Couto Browne]], early Portuguese woman poet (born [[1797 in literature|1797]])
*[[November 13]] – [[Arthur Hugh Clough]], English poet (malaria; born [[1819 in literature|1819]])<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Clough, Arthur Hugh |first=Leslie|last= Stephen|volume=11|pages=127–128}}</ref>
*[[November 30]]
**[[Alexander Gilchrist]], English biographer (scarlet fever, born [[1828 in literature|1828]])
**[[Theodor Mundt]], German novelist and critic (born [[1808 in literature|1808]])

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