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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1879. ==Events== * January 1 - Benjamin Henry Blackwell opens the first Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford. * September 6 - First publication of a story by Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley" in ''Chambers's Journal''. * October 10 - American poet Ethel Lynn Beers' collected works ''All Quiet Along The Potomac and Other Poems'' (including her most well-known work "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight") are published; the following day she dies aged 52 at Orange, New Jersey. * December 21 - Henrik Ibsen's controversial drama ''A Doll's House'' premières at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen (having been first published on December 4 in the city). * Publication of the first complete edition of Georg Büchner's works as ''Georg Büchner's sämmtliche Werke'', edited by Karl Emil Franzos, is completed in Frankfurt, including the first printing of the play ''Wozzeck'', left unfinished on the writer's death in 1837. * English critic and poet Theodore Watts-Dunton takes the alcoholic poet Algernon Charles Swinburne into his permanent care at Watts' Putney home. * The Rabelais Club is founded in London, holding a literary dinner once every two months. High-profile members include novelists Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walter Besant, and George du Maurier. * The Swiss publisher Birkhäuser is founded. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1879 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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