1861 in literature
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See also: 1860 in literature, other events of 1861, 1862 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- The Bishop's Walk - Walter Chalmers Smith
- The Black Band - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- The Cloister and the Hearth - Charles Reade
- Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Ann Jacobs
- Market Harborough - George J Whyte-Melville
- The Octoroon - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Orley Farm - Anthony Trollope
- Silas Marner - George Eliot
- The Young Step-Mother - Charlotte Mary Yonge
Births
- April 15 - Bliss Carman, poet (d. 1929)
- October 16 - J. B. Bury, historian (d. 1927)
- May 13 - Margaret Marshall Saunders, author (d. 1947)
Deaths
- January 29, Catherine Gore, author
- June 29 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
