1856 in literature
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See also: 1855 in literature, other events of 1856, 1857 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Arthur Schopenhauer adds a chapter on "The Metaphysics of Sexual Love" to the third edition of his The World as Will and Representation.
- Lewis Carroll takes up photography as a hobby.
- William Henry Smith first makes the claim that the author of Shakespeare's plays was Sir Francis Bacon.
- Richard Francis Burton serves in the army in the Crimean War and becomes engaged to Isabel Arundel.
- Alphonse Daudet begins his teaching career.
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New books
- Adam Bede - George Eliot
- Benito Cereno - Herman Melville
- Cinco Minutos - José de Alencar
- The Daisy Chain - Charlotte Mary Yonge
- The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins
- Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Ernest Linwood - Caroline Lee Hentz
- I and My Chimney - Herman Melville
- It's Never Too Late to Mend - Charles Reade
- Die Leute von Seldwyla - Gottfried Keller
- Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag - Eduard Mörike
- The Sorrows of Gentility - Geraldine Jewsbury
- The Young Fur-Traders - RM Ballantyne
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New drama
- Henrik Ibsen - The Banquet at Solhaug
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Poetry
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Aurora Leigh
- Victor Hugo - Les Contemplations
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Non-fiction
- J. A. Froude - History of England
- Rudolf Lotze - Mikrokosmos
- Alexis de Tocqueville - L'Ancien régime et la révolution
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Births
- February 14 - Frank Harris, journalist, publisher and memoirist (+ 1931)
- April 5 - Booker T. Washington (+ 1915)
- May 15 - L. Frank Baum, Wizard of Oz author (+ 1919)
- July 25 - Charles Major (+ 1913)
- July 26 - George Bernard Shaw, dramatist (+ 1950)
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Deaths
- January - James Baillie Fraser, travel writer
- February 17 - Heinrich Heine, poet
- June 11 - Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen, philologist
- June 26 - Max Stirner, philosopher
- June 27 - Joseph Meyer, publisher
- July 21 - Emil Aarestrup, poet
- July 29 - Karel Havlíček Borovský, poet, critic and publisher
- August 24 - William Buckland, antiquarian
- August 30 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, humorous writer
- October 13 - Robert Christie, historian and journalist
- November 10 - Johann Kaspar Zeuß, historian
- date unknown - Pyotr Chaadaev, philosopher
- date unknown - Josef Kajetán Tyl, dramatist and author of the Czech national anthem
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