This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1879.
Children and young people
Louisa May Alcott – Jack and Jill: A Village Story
E. W. Cole – Cole's Funny Picture Book
Evelyn Whitaker – Laddie
Vasile Alecsandri – Despot-Vodă
Émile Augier – Les Fourchambault
Edmond Gondinet – Les Tapageurs
James Herne – Hearts of Oak
Henrik Ibsen – A Doll's House
George Robert Sims – Crutch and Toothpick
Ethel Lynn Beers – All Quiet Along The Potomac and Other Poems
Kate Greenaway – Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children
Sir Edward Arnold – The Light of Asia
Lewis Carroll – Euclid and his Modern Rivals
Charles Darwin – The Life of Erasmus Darwin
Gottlob Frege – Begriffsschrift (Concept Writing)
Henry George – Progress and Poverty
George Grove (ed.) – A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1st edition begins publication
Yngvar Nielsen – Reisehaandbog over Norge (Travel Manual to Norway)
Robert Louis Stevenson – Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
January 1 – E. M. Forster, English novelist and critic (died 1970)
January 26 – Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, German-born English historian and political scientist (died 1957)
February 13 – Sarojini Naidu (née Chattopadhyay), Indian poet and politician (died 1949)
February 17 – Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American activist and novelist (died 1958)
March 14 – Harold Monro, English poet and promoter of poetry (died 1932)
April 14 – James Branch Cabell, American novelist (died 1958)
May 8 – Ioan C. Filitti, Romanian historian, political theorist and essayist (died 1945)
June 4 – Percy Lubbock, English essayist, critic and biographer (died 1965)
July 19 – Ferenc Móra, Hungarian children's writer and editor (died 1934)
July 20 – Claude Scudamore Jarvis, English writer, Arabist and naturalist (died 1953)
September 19 – Louis Joseph Vance, American novelist (died 1933)
October 2 – Wallace Stevens, American poet (died 1955)
December 3 – Kafū Nagai (永井 荷風), Japanese novelist (died 1959)
December 24 – Émile Nelligan, French Canadian poet (died 1941)
January 16 – Octave Crémazie, "the father of French Canadian poetry" (born 1827)
February 28 – Hortense Allart, French feminist novelist (born 1801)
March 3
William Howitt, English historical writer and poet (born 1792)
Annie Keary, English novelist, poet and children's writer (born 1825)
March 9 – Mark Prager Lindo, Dutch historian (born 1819)
March 19 – Claire Clairmont, English-born diarist and correspondent (born 1798)
April 8 – Anthony Panizzi, Italian-born English librarian (born 1797)
April 21 – George Hadfield, English radical author and politician (born 1787)
April 25 – Charles Tennyson Turner, English poet (born 1808)
April 30 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American novelist and poet (born 1788)
June 19 – George W. M. Reynolds, English popular novelist (born 1814)
July 4 – Sarah Dorsey, American novelist and historian (born 1829)
July 30 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet and journalist (born 1818)
September 20 – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, Canadian novelist and poet (born 1829)
September 23 – Francis Kilvert, English diarist and cleric (born 1840)
October 11 – Ethel Lynn Beers, American poet (born 1827)
October 13 – Henry Charles Carey, American economist (born 1793)
October 28 – Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French political economist (born 1799)
October 31
Jacob Abbott, American children's writer (born 1803)
John Baldwin Buckstone, English dramatist (born 1802)
December 27 – William Hepworth Dixon, English historian, traveller and journal editor (born 1821)
Newdigate Prize – Thomas Mosse Macdonald
1879 in literature Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
