1855 in literature

Events

• July 4 - In Brooklyn, New York, Walt Whitman's first edition of his book of poem's titled Leaves of Grass is published.
• Thomas Babington Macaulay's best-selling History of England in four volumes is finished.
• Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Little Dorritt[?] (in installments through 1857).

New Books

• Aurelia[?] - Gerard Nerval[?]
• Debit and Credit[?] - Gustav Freytag[?]
• The Hidden Path[?] - Mary Virginia Hawes[?]
• Israel Potter[?] - Herman Melville
• Leaves of Grass (poetry) - Walt Whitman
• A Month in the Country[?] - Ivan Turgenev
• The Old Homestead[?] - Ann Sophia Stephens[?]
• The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids[?] - Herman Melville
• Robert Graham[?] - Caroline Lee Hentz[?]
• Song of Hiawatha[?] (poetry) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Story of My Life[?] - George Sand
• The Warden[?] - Anthony Trollope
• Westward Ho![?] - Charles Kingsley

Births

• May 1 - Marie Corelli (Mary Mackay) (+ 1924)

Deaths

• January 10 - Mary Russell Mitford[?], English writer
• March 31 - Charlotte Bronte, author
• November 26 - Adam Mickiewicz, Poland's greatest poet

Awards