Calendar of Literary Facts
1855
- Robert Browning publishes Fra Lippo Lippi
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes Song of Hiawatha
- Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass
- Anthony Trollope publishes The Warden
- A. J. B. Beresford Hope founds The Saturday Review in London
- Paul Heyse publishes L’arrabiata
- Arthur Wing Pinero is born (May 24)
- Charlotte Brontë dies (March 31)
