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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1856. ==Events== *January 1 – M. H. Gill, printer to Dublin University, purchases the publishing and bookselling business of James McGlashan, renaming it McGlashan & Gill, the predecessor of Gill & Macmillan.〔 *March – Charles Dickens buys Gads Hill Place in Kent (England) from fellow novelist Eliza Lynn. *March 1 – Lewis Carroll chooses his pseudonym; on May 1 he takes up photography as a hobby. *March 5 – The second Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, is destroyed by fire (as the first was in 1808). *July 19–26 – Wilkie Collins' "Anne Rodway", a short story in diary form in which the eponymous poor needlewoman investigates the murder of a friend assisted by her fiancé, is published in ''Household Words''; it is the first English story in which a woman features as the main detective character. *September 29 – English actor Henry Irving makes his stage début at Sunderland as Gaston, Duke of Orleans, in Bulwer Lytton's play ''Richelieu''. *October – Marian Evans (who has not yet adopted the pseudonym George Eliot) anonymously publishes a critical article "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" in the ''Westminster Review''.〔66: 442–61.〕 *October 1–December 15 – Gustave Flaubert's ''Madame Bovary'' is serialized in ''Revue de Paris''. *November 6 – The first of George Eliot's ''Scenes of Clerical Life'' and her first work of fiction, "The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton", is submitted to ''Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine'' by G. H. Lewes for anonymous publication. *November 18 – English-born actress Laura Keene opens her own theatre in New York City. *November 20 – Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville meet when Hawthorne is United States consul in Liverpool. *Mikhail Katkov revives the title ''The Russian Messenger'' ((ロシア語:Ру́сский ве́стник) ''Russkiy vestnik'', Pre-reform Russian: Русскій Вѣстникъ ''Russkiy Vestnik'') for an influential literary magazine published in Moscow. In its first year he publishes Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's ''Provincial Sketches'' (beginning in August, signed "N. Schedrin") and the text of Alexander Ostrovsky's play ''V chuzhom miru pohmelye'' ("Hangover at a Stranger's Feast"; premiered in Moscow on January 9). *Arthur Schopenhauer adds a chapter on "The Metaphysics of Sexual Love" to the third edition of his ''The World as Will and Representation''. *Poet Juris Alunāns' ''Songs'' becomes the first significant published literary work in Latvian. *English bookseller W. H. Smith first publishes the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship. *Richard Francis Burton serves in the British Army in the Crimean War, becomes engaged to Isabel Arundel and sets off on an expedition to the African Great Lakes. *Alphonse Daudet begins his teaching career. *Henry Wallis exhibits his romantic painting of ''The Death of Chatterton'' in London with the young poet and novelist George Meredith posing as his 18th-century predecessor Thomas Chatterton. 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「1856 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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