Her last novel was Daniel Deronda, published in 1876, whereafter she and Lewes moved to Witley, Surrey ; but by this time Lewes's health was failing and he died two years later on 30 November 1878.

Published in 1878, the novel is set in the 1840s, though horse trams were not introduced in Boston till the 1850s.

* O Primo Basílio, an 1878 novel by Portuguese author José Maria Eça de Queiroz

Jules Verne describes in his novel Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen ( 1878 ) that when a fictional African " King of Kazounde " tasted a punch set aflame, " An act of spontaneous combustion had just taken place.

When her poetry failed to gain recognition, she produced her first and best known novel, The Leavenworth Case ( 1878 ), praised by Wilkie Collins, and the hit of the year.

* Watch and Ward, a short novel by Henry James first published as a serial in 1871 and later as a book in 1878

* A successful novel, Auch Einer ( 1878 ; 25th ed., 1904 )

The berries were called black-hearts in 19th century south-western England, according to Thomas Hardy's 1878 novel The Return of the Native.

* The New Republic ( novel ), an 1878 satirical novel by William Hurrell Mallock

Sewell died of hepatitis or tuberculosis on 25 April 1878, only 5 months after the novel was published, but she lived long enough to see its initial success.

* " Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ", a phrase from the 1878 novel Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

In the genre of a slightly modified historical novel ( inverted narration and chapter lay-out ), this novel is a chronicle of a Dubrovnik family, but it also covers parts of Herzegovina and Bosnia, as well as some other European cities, while in terms of period it starts with the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, covers the downfall of the two empires, the two world wars, the rise and fall of socialism and ends just before the war of 1991.

Oliver Joseph St John Gogarty ( 17 August 1878 – 22 September 1957 ) was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist, who served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

Bruno Alfred Döblin ( August 10, 1878 – June 26, 1957 ) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz ( 1929 ).

Sans Famille ( Translation: Without family English title: Nobody's boy ) is an 1878 French novel by Hector Malot.

After the manuscript had been rejected by at least five publishers, Hardy gave up his attempts to sell the novel in its original form ; however, he incorporated some of its scenes and themes into later works, notably in the poem " The Poor Man and the Lady " and in the novella An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress ( 1878 ).

* Dragon's Teeth: A Novel, an 1878 realist novel

* Le Capitaine Fracasse ( 1878 ), libretto of a light opera, based on Théophile Gautier's novel

The Peshawar Lancers is an alternate history, steampunk, post-apocalyptic fiction adventure novel by S. M. Stirling, with its point of divergence occurring in 1878 when the Earth is struck by a devastating meteor shower.

Bram Stoker worked between 1878 and 1898 as business manager of the theatre, and Irving was Stoker's real-life inspiration for the character Count Dracula in his 1897 novel, Dracula.

The Fifth Doctor meets Victoria ( and is appointed her Scientific Advisor ) in 1863 in the Past Doctor Adventures novel Empire of Death and she is also involved in the events of the novel Imperial Moon, taking place in 1878, where the Doctor's companion Kamelion poses as Prince Albert to convince her to keep the events of the novel secret.

Waterhouse was dismissed as architect in 1878 and succeeded by George Gilbert Scott, who, after extending the Chapel, provided additional accommodation with the construction of New Court in 1881, with letters on a series of shields along the string course above the first floor spelling out the Psalm text " Nisi Dominus aedificat domum …" (" Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it ").

In the same volume ( Poems and Ballads, Second Series, 1878 ) Swinburne introduces a " double sestina " (" The Complaint of Lisa ") that is unlike Sidney's: it comprises 12 stanzas of 12 iambic pentameter lines each, the first stanza rhyming abcabdcefedf.

John Arthur (" Jack ") Johnson ( March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946 ), nicknamed the " Galveston Giant ," was an American boxer.

Examples for the romantic heroization of Charles XII in several genres are Esaias Tegnér's song Kung Karl, den unge hjälte ( 1818 ), Johan Peter Molin's statue in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården ( unveiled on 30 November 1868, the 150th anniversary of Charles ' death ) and Gustaf Cederström's painting Karl XII: s likfärd (" Funeral procession of Charles XII ", 1878 ).

In 1878, the company surveyed lots for the permanent settlement of Rat Portage (" portage to the country of the muskrat ") — the community kept that name until 1905, when it was renamed to Kenora.

The concept of a " culture war " has been in use in English since at least its adoption as a calque ( loan translation ) to refer to the German Kulturkampf (" cultural struggle " or " struggle between cultures "; literally, " battle of cultures "), the campaign from 1871 to 1878 under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck of the German Empire against the influence of the Roman Catholic Church.

; 1878: The first Hovevei Zion (" Lovers of Zion ") groups were founded in Eastern Europe

His last work was the Kaisarnamah-i-Hind (" the lay of the empress "), in two volumes ( 1878 – 1882 ).

Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit ( July 22, 1878 or 1879 – August 1942 ), was a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pediatrician known as Pan Doktor (" Mr. Doctor ") or Stary Doktor (" Old Doctor ").

* Journal Intime ( 1878 – 1885 ), 2 vol (" Private Diary ", 1925 – 1929 )

* Joseph E. Howard ( 1878 – 1961 ), American composer (" Emerson and Howard ")

* Písně kosmické (" Cosmic Songs "), 1878

* Balady a romance (" Ballads and Romances )", 1878 – 83

**** William Kissam (" Willie K ") Vanderbilt II ( 1878 – 1944 )

His work for 1926 centered on the first of four volumes in his series Essai de synthèse de l ' histoire de l ' humanité (" Essay on the Synthesis of World History "), followed in 1927 by Istoria industriei la români (" The History of Industry among the Romanians "), Originea şi sensul democraţiei (" The Origin and Sense of Democracy "), a study of Romanian contributions to the 1877 – 1878 Russo-Turkish War ( Războiul de independenţă, " The War of Independence ") etc.

Romanian reactions toward the Congress of Berlin: in this 1878 cartoon, Romania is robbed of her crown (" Bessarabia ", in fact the Budjak ) and weighed down by the addition of Northern Dobruja

Evan James ( also known by the bardic name Ieuan ap Iago ) ( 1809-September 30, 1878 ), a weaver and poet from Pontypridd, originally from Caerphilly, Wales, wrote the lyrics of Hen Wlad fy Nhadau (" Land of my Fathers "), the national anthem of Wales.

The term National Policy originally referred to a proposed raise in tariffs by the Macdonald-led Conservatives (" Tories ") during the 1878 election campaign.

*" Platon's Ideenlehre und die Mathematik ," Marburg, 1878 (" Mathematics and Theory of Platonic Ideals ")

In Die Entdeckung der Seele (" The Discovery of The Soul ", 1878 ) Jäger advanced the first crude version of the pheromone concept.

Among his other dramatic works were Joan Woutersz ( a drama, 1847 ), Twee Tudors (" Two Tudors ," 1847 ), Gondelbald ( 1848 ), Schuld en boete (" Guilt and Retribution ," a drama, 1852 ), Het Kind van Staat (" The State Child ," a dramatic fragment, 1859 ); Zege na strijd (" Struggle and Triumph ," a drama, 1878 ).