1878 in literature - Definition

See also: 1877 in literature, other events of 1878, 1879 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• Beatrice Tyldesley - William Harrison Ainsworth
• The Haunted Hotel - Wilkie Collins
• An Open Verdict - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Primrose Path - Margaret Oliphant
• The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
• Sans Famille - Hector Malot

Births

• January 6 - Carl Sandburg, poet, historian (+ 1967)
• January 12 - Ferenc Molnár, writer (+ 1952)
• June 12 - James Oliver Curwood, American author (d. 1927)
• September 20 - Upton Sinclair (+ 1968)

Deaths

• April 25 - Anna Sewell, author

Awards