1879 in literature

Events

• The Rabelais Club[?] founded in London, England, holding a literary dinner once every two months. High-profile members included novelists Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walter Besant[?], and George Du Maurier.

New Books

• Beau Nash[?] - William Harrison Ainsworth
• The Begum's Fortune[?] - Jules Verne
• The Cloven Foot[?] - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Daisy Miller[?] - Henry James
• The Egoist[?] - George Meredith
• The Fallen Leaves[?] - Wilkie Collins
• Jack and Jill: A Village Story[?] - Louisa May Alcott
• John Caldigate[?] - Anthony Trollope
• Kings in Exile[?] - Alphonse Daudet
• The Red Room[?] - August Strindberg
• Roda Rummet[?] - August Strindberg
• A Rogue's Life[?] - Wilkie Collins
• Les Soeurs Vatard[?] - Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Vixen[?] - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Births

• January 1 - E.M. Forster (+ 1970)
• April 14 - James Branch Cabell, (+ 1958)

Deaths

• February 11 - Willem J van Zeggelen[?], Dutch author
• October 31 - Jacob Abbott, writer

Awards