1851 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1851.

Events

January 1 – The Georgian theatre company gives its first performance, under the direction of Giorgi Eristavi.
June 5 – Harriet Beecher Stow's's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin begins serialization in the American abolitionist weekly The National Era.
June – While waiting to cross the English Channel on honeymoon, Matthew Arnold probably begins to compose the poem "Dover Beach".^[1]
September 29 – Marian Evans, the future George Eliot, takes up her appointment as (assistant) editor of the Westminster Review, published by John Chapman, in which capacity she will meet G. H. Lewes.
November 14 – Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is published in full, in a single volume, for the first time, by Harper & Brothers in New York, having been previously issued on October 18 as The Whale in an abridged 3-volume edition by Richard Bentley in London.
December 2 – French coup d'état of 1851. Victor Hugo is a leader of the unsuccessful insurrection against it and is forced into exile, initially to Brussels.
December 24 – A fire at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroys 35,000 books, about two–thirds of the collection.
Albertus Willem Sijthoff establishes his own publishing business at Leiden.^[2]

February 21 – Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, Austrian writer and traveler (died 1918)
June 11 – Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs. Humphry Ward), Tasmanian-born English novelist (died 1920)
June 29 – Jane Dieulafoy, French archeologist, novelist and journalist (died 1916)
August 23 – Alois Jirásek, Czech novelist and playwright (died 1930)
September 14 – H. E. Beunke, Dutch writer (died 1925)
September 16 – Emilia Pardo Bazán, Galician Spanish novelist (died 1921)
December 10 – Melvil Dewey, born Melville Dewey, American librarian (died 1931)

↑ Published 1867. Allott, Kenneth, ed. (1965). The Poems of Matthew Arnold. London; New York: Longman Norton. p. 240. ISBN 0-393-04377-0.
↑ Maas, Norbert Maria Hubert (1996). "Altyt Waek Saem: De drukker-uitgever A.W. Sijthoff (1829-1913)". Nieuw Letterkundig Magazijn (in Dutch). pp. 35–41. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
↑ Bennett, Betty T. Introduction to Selected Letters, xxvii.

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