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.[1]
July 19–26 – Wilkie Collins' "Anne Rodway", a story in diary form about a needlewoman and her fiancé investigating the murder of a friend, appears in Household Words, as the first English story to feature a woman as the main detective character.[3]
October – Marian Evans, who has yet to adopt the pseudonym George Eliot, publishes an anonymous article, "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists", in the Westminster Review.[5]
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^National gallery (Londres); Alexander Sturgis; Rupert Christiansen (2006). Rebels and Martyrs: The Image of the Artist in the Nineteenth Century. Yale University Press. p. 21. ISBN 1-85709-346-1.
^Bodenheimer, Rosemarie (2001). "A Woman of Many Names". In Levine, George (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot. Cambridge University Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780521664738.
^Sutherland, John; Fender, Stephen (2011). Love, Sex, Death & Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature. London: Icon. p. 441. ISBN 978-184831-247-0.
^"Lizette Woodworth Reese | American poet". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
^L. Frank Baum (2 May 2019). Essential Novelists – L. Frank Baum: modernized fairy tale. Tacet Books. p. 2.
^G. K. Chesterton (1 November 2007). George Bernard Shaw. Cosimo, Inc. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-60206-873-5.
^Brian Doyle (1971). The who's who of children's literature. Schocken Books. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-8052-0307-3.
^Anne Walsh (2000). Essays on the History of Trinity College Library Dublin. Four Courts. pp. 157–158. ISBN 978-1-85182-467-0.
^King Alfred surveying Oxford University at the present time: A prize poem, recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 4th, 1856 (Newdigate prize poem; T & G Shrimpton, 1856)