1880 in literature

See also: 1879 in literature, other events of 1880, 1881 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi is published in Italy.

New books

• Ayala's Angels – Anthony Trollope
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ – Lew Wallace
• The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Demon Of Cawnpore – Jules Verne
• Endymion – Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
• Heidi's Formative Years – Johanna Spyri
• Jezebel's Daughter – Wilkie Collins
• Moths – Ouida
• Nana – Emile Zola
• Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
• Second thoughts – Rhoda Broughton
• A Tramp Abroad – Mark Twain
• Workers in the Dawn – George Gissing
• Democracy: An American Novel – Henry Adams (published anonymously)

Births

• February 21 – Waldemar Bonsels, writer (+ 1952)
• March 13 – Frank Thiess, writer (+ 1977)
• March 30 – Sean O'Casey, dramatist (+ 1964)
• June 17 – Carl Van Vechten, writer (+ 1964)
• November 6 – Robert Musil, novelist (+ 1942)

Deaths

• July 7 – Lydia Child, writer, activist
• September 23 – Geraldine Jewsbury, British author
• December 22 – George Eliot, author

Awards