1878 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

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

• January 6 - Carl Sandburg, poet, historian (+ 1967)
• January 12 - Ferenc Molnár, writer (+ 1952)
• September 20 - Upton Sinclair (+ 1968)

• April 25 - Anna Sewell, author