1880 in literature

Events

• Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi is published in Italy.

New Books

• Ayala's Angels[?] - Anthony Trollope
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ[?] - Lew Wallace
• The Brothers Karamazov[?] - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Demon Of Cawnpore[?] - Jules Verne
• Heidi's Formative Years[?] - Johanna Spyri
• Jezebel's Daughter[?] - Wilkie Collins
• Moths[?] - Ouida
• Nana[?] - Emile Zola
• Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
• Second thoughts[?] - Rhoda Broughton
• A Tramp Abroad[?] - Mark Twain
• Workers in the Dawn[?] - George Gissing[?]
• Democracy: An American Novel - Henry Adams (published anonymously)

Births

• February 21 - Waldemar Bonsels[?], writer (+ 1952)
• March 13 - Frank Thiess[?], writer (+ 1977)
• March 30 - Sean O'Casey[?], dramatist (+ 1964)
• November 6 - Robert Musil, novelist (+ 1942)

Deaths

• July 7 - Lydia Child[?], writer, activist
• December 22 - George Eliot, author

Awards