1856 in literature

See also: 1855 in literature, other events of 1856, 1857 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Adam Bede - George Eliot
• Aurora Leigh (poetry) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Benito Cereno - Herman Melville
• Les Contemplations - Victor Hugo
• The Daisy Chain - Charlotte Mary Yonge
• The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins
• Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Ernest Linwood - Caroline Lee Hentz
• I and My Chimney - Herman Melville
• The Young Fur-Traders - RM Ballantyne

Births

• April 5 - Booker T. Washington (+ 1915)
• May 15 - L. Frank Baum (+ 1919)
• July 26 - George Bernard Shaw (+ 1950)

Deaths

Awards