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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1861. ==Events== *March - Fyodor Dostoyevsky's monthly ''Vremya'' (Вре́мя, "Time") begins publication in Saint Petersburg under the nominal editorship of his brother Mikhail. Fyodor's novel ''The House of the Dead'' (Записки из Мёртвого дома, ''Zapiski iz Myortvogo doma'') is first published in it this year. *April 23 - Herbert Coleridge, first editor of what will become the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', dies aged 30 of tuberculosis in London; Frederick James Furnivall is appointed to succeed him. *May/July - ''The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce'' becomes ''The Times of India''. *June 29 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies in the arms of her husband and fellow poet Robert Browning in Florence; on July 1 she is buried in the Protestant cemetery there. Robert leaves the city soon afterwards. *July - Sheridan Le Fanu becomes editor and proprietor of the ''Dublin University Magazine''.〔McCormack, W. J. (1997). ''Sheridan Le Fanu.'' Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-1489-0 pp. 198-199.〕 From October he begins serialization of his novel ''The House by the Churchyard'' in it. *July 19–24 - Trial in Calcutta of Rev. James Long for defamation in distributing a translation of Dinabandhu Mitra's play ''Nil Darpan''. *August 3 - Charles Dickens's ''Bildungsroman'' ''Great Expectations'' concludes serialization in his magazine ''All the Year Round''; in October it is published complete in three volumes by Chapman & Hall in London. *September 14 - Gottfried Keller becomes municipal secretary of his home town of Zurich. *September 19 - Mrs. Henry Wood's 'sensation novel' ''East Lynne'' is published in London as a three-volume novel as it concludes serialization in ''The New Monthly Magazine''. This year also the first theatrical adaptation, as ''Edith, or The Earl's Daughter'', is staged in New York City.〔Oxford World's Classics edition.〕 *October 20 - Poet and dramatist Apollo Korzeniowski is arrested for his political activities and placed in the infamous Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel. *31-year-old John Edward Taylor the younger becomes sole editor as well as proprietor of the ''Manchester Guardian''. *Publication of the first modern New Zealand novel, Henry Butler Stoney's ''Taranaki: A Tale of the War''. 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「1861 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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