1861 in literature

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

Events

New Books

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

Births

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

Deaths

• January 29, Catherine Gore, author
• June 29 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet

Awards