1843 in literature

none thumb | right | alt=Vilhelm Pedersen illustration for "Ugly Duckling" in public domain. | Vilhelm Pedersen illustration for The Ugly Duckling in public domain. 1843 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1843. Events January Serial publication begins of Charles Dickens' picaresque novel The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Chapman & Hall in London. The novel was published in 19 monthly instalments, each comprising 32 pages of text and two illustrations by Phiz. Each instalment had a cost of one shilling. The last part was double-length.https://www.uvic.ca/library/research-teaching/collections/serials/Chuzzlewit.php 19th Century Serials: Martin Chuzzlewit University of Victoria Library Victoria, British Columbia 18 May 2022 https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/phiz/mc/42.html Martin Chuzzlewit – Wrapper Design Philip A Allingham Victorian Web 22 April 2019 18 May 2022 https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/phiz/index.html "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne): The Artist who Drew Dickens" (1815-1882) ten novels (1836-74): Martin Chuzzlewit (40 plates plus sketches) 24 March 2022 Victorian Web 18 May 2022 Dickens responded to the disappointing early sales of the monthly parts, when compared to the sales of previous works as monthly instalments; he changed the plot to send the title character to the United States.Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing Michael Slater 214 Yale University Press http://dspace.vnbrims.org:13000/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/5001/Charles%20Dickens%20A%20Life%20Defined%20by%20Writing.pdf?sequence=1 2009 19 May 2022 978-0-300-11207-8 At the end of [monthly instalment] Chuzzlewit V, the May number, young Martin Chuzzlewit, following his show-down with Pecksniff, suddenly announces he will go to America. Nothing has prepared the reader for this, … No doubt a desire to increase the disappointing sales of the monthly parts had much to do with the decision. … motivated by the hope of increasing sales (which it did only very moderately, however) Dickens's satire of American modes and manners in the novel won him no friends on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, where the instalments containing the offending chapters were greeted with a "frenzy of wrath". As a consequence, Dickens received abusive mail and newspaper clippings from the United States.Pearson 1949 132–133 Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" appears in The Pioneer in Boston and his poem "The Conqueror Worm" in Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia.Sova, Dawn B. Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z. New York: Checkmark Books, 2001: 56. 0-8160-4161-X "The Conqueror Worm" uses the word "evermore", which would later evolve into "nevermore" in Poe's famous poem "The Raven" in 1845.Meyers, Jeffrey. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. Cooper Square Press, 1992: 163. 0-8154-1038-7 February – Macmillan Publishers is founded in London by the Scottish brothers Daniel and Alexander Macmillan. April 4 – William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, after the death of Robert Southey on March 21. He is reassured that it is seen as a purely honorific position.F. B. Pinion A Wordsworth Chronology Basingstoke Macmillan Press 1988 0-333-38860-7 201 June 21 – Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Gold-Bug" begins to be serialized in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper as the winning entry in a competition, earning Poe a $100 prize. It will be widely reprinted and adapted for theater. It popularizes cryptography. July – Margaret Fuller's "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women" appears in The Dial magazine in the United States. It will later be expanded into a book, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845). August 19 – Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic short story "The Black Cat" is first published in The Saturday Evening Post. August 22 – The Theatres Act in the United Kingdom ends a virtual monopoly of theatrical performances held by the patent theatres and encourages development of popular entertainment.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 266–267 0-7126-5616-2 September – Ada Lovelace (Byron's daughter) translates and expands Menabrea's notes on Charles Babbage's analytical engine, including an algorithm for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers, seen as the world's first computer program.John Fuegi Jo Francis Lovelace & Babbage and the creation of the 1843 'notes' IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25 4 16–26 10.1109/MAHC.2003.1253887 October–December 2003http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/ada-bio.html Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace 2010-07-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20100721013509/http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/ada-bio.html 21 July 2010 liveMenabrea L. F. Luigi Federico Menabrea 1843 Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage Scientific Memoirs 3 http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html 2010-10-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20100913042032/http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html 13 September 2010 live October – Anna Atkins begins publishing Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, a collection of contact printed cyanotype photograms of algae, to form the first book illustrated with photographs.Parr Martin Gerry Badger The Photobook: a history, Volume I Phaidon 2004 London 0-7148-4285-0James Christopher The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes 2nd Delmar Cengage Learning 2009 Clifton Park, NY https://archive.org/details/bookofalternativ0000jame 978-1-4180-7372-5 2009-08-11 registration New York Public Library Seeing is Believing: 700 years of scientific and medical illustration Photography. Cyanotype photograph. Anna Atkins (1799-1871) 2001 1843 http://seeing.nypl.org/235bt.html 2009-08-11Peres Michael R. The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: Digital Imaging, Theory and Applications, History, and Science 4th Elsevier/Focal Press 2007 Amsterdam; Boston 978-0-240-80740-9 December 17 – Publication of Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Chapman & Hall is made at his expense. It introduces the character Ebenezer Scrooge. Released on December 19, the first printing sells out by Christmas Eve.Dickens Charles Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert 2006 A Christmas Carol and other Christmas Books Oxford University Press Oxford world's classics 978-0-19-280694-9 Christmas – Thomas Hood's poem "The Song of the Shirt" appears in Punch.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm unknown dates The Routledge publishing firm is founded in London by the Cumberland-born bookseller George Routledge. The steam-powered rotary printing press is invented by Richard March Hoe in the United States.Meggs Philip B. Philip B. Meggs A History of Graphic Design Wiley 1998 3rd 147 978-0-471-29198-5 It receives 5199 in 1847 and begins commercial use in the same year. New books Fiction William Harrison Ainsworth – Windsor Castle Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Last of the Barons James Fenimore Cooper – Le Mouchoir; an Autobiographical Romance Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Martin Chuzzlewit Alexandre Dumas, père – GeorgesReed, Frank Wild (1933). A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père. England: J. A. Neuhuys. p. 152 Catherine Gore – The Banker's Wife Léon Gozlan – Aristide FroissartPierre Echinard et Georges Jessula, Léon Gozlan (1803–1866), coll. IMMAJ, Marseille, 2003, p. 66. 2-9519299-1-9. Victor Hugo – Les Burgraves Søren Kierkegaard – Diary of a Seducer (literary novel included in Either/Or) John Neal — Ruth Elder Sears Donald A. John Neal Twayne Publishers Boston, Massachusetts 1978 080-5-7723-08 147 Frederick Marryat – Monsieur Violet Eugène Sue – The Mysteries of Paris Robert Smith Surtees – Handley Cross Claude Tillier – My Uncle Benjamin Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna – Perils of the Nation Frances Milton Trollope – The Barnabys in America Children and young people Hans Christian Andersen – New Fairy Tales. First Volume. First Collection (Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Første Samling) comprising "The Angel" ("Engelen"), "The Nightingale" ("Nattergalen"), "The Sweethearts; or, The Top and the Ball" ("Kjærestefolkene [Toppen og bolden]") and "The Ugly Duckling" ("Den grimme ælling") Drama Eusebio Asquerino – Casada, vírgen y mártir V. A. Bhave – Sita Swayamvar Théophile Gautier – Un Voyage en Espagne Nikolai Gogol – The Gamblers James Sheridan Knowles – The Secretary W. T. Moncrieff – The Scamps of London Poetry 1843 in poetry Thomas Hood – "The Song of the Shirt" Richard Henry Horne – Orion: an epic poem Edgar Allan Poe – "The Conqueror Worm" Non-fiction Leon Battista Alberti – I Libri della famiglia Anna Atkins – Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions Paul Rudolf von Bilguer – Handbuch des Schachspiels (Handbook of Chess) George Borrow – The Bible in Spain; or, the Journey, Adventures, and Imprisonment of an English-man in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula James Braid – Neurypnology: or the Rationale of Nervous Sleep Thomas Carlyle – Past and Present Marquis de Custine – La Russie en 1839 (Russia in 1839) Benjamin Hall Kennedy – Elementary Latin Primer Søren Kierkegaard (as Johannes de Silentio) – Fear and Trembling (Frygt og Bæven) Charles Robert Leslie – Memoirs of the Life of John Constable Thomas Babington Macaulay – Critical and Historical Essays Moses Margoliouth – The Fundamental Principles of Modern Judaism Investigated John Stuart Mill – A System of Logic William H. Prescott – History of the Conquest of Mexico John Ruskin – Modern Painters, vol. 1 Rev. J. M. Wainwright – Book of Common Prayer (1843 illustrated version) Wei Yuan and others (comp.) – Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms (海國圖志, Hǎiguó Túzhì) Births January 2 – Gabriel Compayré, French scholar and politician (died 1913)Gabriel COMPAYRÉ (1843 - 1913) http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=7926 Assemblee nationale November 29, 2015 January 14 – Hans Forssell, Swedish historian (died 1901) January 17 – Florence Montgomery, English novelist and children's writer (died 1923) January 24 – Evald Tang Kristensen, Danish author and collector of folklore (died 1929) January 28 – Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet and linguist (died 1890) February 6 – Frederic W. H. Myers, British poet (died 1901) February 24 Teófilo Braga, Portuguese poet, playwright and politician (died 1924)http://www.leme.pt/biografias/portugal/presidentes/teofilo.html Boléo Maria Luísa V. de Paiva Boléo Oito Presidentes para a História (1910–1926): Teófilo Braga (1843–1924) Lisbon O Leme pt 2006 Violet Fane (Mary Montgomerie Lamb), English novelist, poet and essayist (died 1905) March 5 – Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, French writer (died 1925)Charles Edward Ellis An Authentic History of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Charles Edward Ellis 1910 131 March 11 – Harald Høffding, Danish philosopher and theologian (died 1931) March 29 – Paul Ferrier, French dramatist and librettist (died 1920)Kurt Gänzl The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre Schirmer Books 1994 447 March 30 – Florence Ashton Marshall, English composer and conductor, biographer of Handel (died 1922) April 15 Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, American author, reformer, and philanthropist (died 1915) Henry James, American-born fiction writer (died 1916) Woolf Judith Henry James: the major novels Cambridge University Press Cambridge New York 1991 9780521316552 1 April 25 – Constance Cary Harrison, American playwright and novelist (died 1920) April 29 – Pedro Américo, Brazilian novelist, poet, scientist, artist, essayist, philosopher, politician and professor (died 1905) May 3 – Edward Dowden, Irish poet and critic (died 1913) May 10 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (died 1920)Lisa P. Condé Stages in the Development of a Feminist Consciousness in Pérez Galdós (1843-1920): A Biographical Sketch E. Mellen Press 1990 9780889463752 18 May 12 – Thomas William Rhys Davids, British linguist and scholar (died 1922) Lord Chalmers 1923 25210065 Thomas William Rhys Davids Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2 323–328 May 25 – Christabel Rose Coleridge, English novelist and editor (died 1921) June 9 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian pacifist writer (died 1914)Bertha von Suttner https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1905/suttner/biographical/ NobelPrize.org 6 June 2019 June 26 – Paul Arène, French poet and author (died 1896)The Encyclopedia Americana, volume 5 Grolier Incorporated 1998 250 July 5 – Mandell Creighton, English bishop and historian (died 1901) August 9 – N. D. Popescu-Popnedea, Romanian novelist, folklorist, archivist and almanac compiler (died 1921) September 26 – James Rice, English novelist (died 1882) October 25 – Gleb Uspensky, Russian writer (died 1902)Twayne's World Authors Series https://books.google.com/books?id=1_E3AAAAIAAJ 1972 Twayne Publishers 15-17 November – Lucy M. Hall, American physician and writer (died 1907) December 7 – Helena Nyblom, née Roed, Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales (died 1926) December 10 – Isabella Fyvie Mayo, Scottish poet, novelist, and reformer (died 1914) December 21 – Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealand poet (died 1898) December 23 – Ada Langworthy Collier, American author (died 1919)The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review https://books.google.com/books?id=UDU5AAAAIAAJ 1890 415 December 24 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (died 1886) Miljan Toivo Historical dictionary of Estonia Scarecrow Press Lanham, Md 2004 9780810865716 285 December 29 – Princess Elisabeth of Wied ("Carmen Sylva"), German-born queen consort and writer (died 1916) unknown dates Mary Bathurst Deane, English novelist (died 1940) Lillian Rozell Messenger, American poet (died 1921)Thomas William Herringshaw Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century: Accurate and Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women https://books.google.com/books?id=Xxg7AQAAMAAJ 1904 American Publishers' Association 654 Deaths January 11 – Francis Scott Key, American poet (born 1779)Hester Dorsey Richardson Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families https://books.google.com/books?id=kb4-AAAAYAAJ 1913 Williams and Wilkins Company 153 February 10 – Richard Carlile, English writer and agitator for suffrage and freedom of the press (born 1790) February 22 – Mary Hays, English feminist writer (born 1759) March 21 – Robert Southey, English poet and Poet Laureate (born 1774) May 12 – Charlotte von Kalb, German writer (born 1761) May 19 – Charles James Apperley ("Nimrod"), English sporting writer (born 1777) May 28 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (born 1758) June 6 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist (born 1770) Hölderlin Friedrich Friedrich Hölderlin: essays and letters on theory State University of New York Press Albany, N.Y 1988 9780887065583 xiv July 4 – John Basset, writer on Cornish mining (born 1791) July 9 – Karoline Pichler, Austrian novelist (born 1769) July 31 – William Thomas Lowndes, English bibliographer (born c.1798) August 10 – Jakob Friedrich Fries, German philosopher (born 1773) September 4 – Léopoldine Hugo, daughter of French novelist Victor Hugo (b. 1824) Hugo Victor Selected poems of Victor Hugo University of Chicago Press Chicago, Ill. London 2004 9780226359816 159 October 21 – William Pinnock, English writer, publisher and bookseller (born 1782) November 25 – Ellen Pickering, English novelist (born 1801 or 1802) November 28 – József Ficzkó, Burgenland Croatian writer (born 1772) December 11 – Casimir Delavigne, French poet and dramatist (born 1793) Awards Newdigate Prize – Matthew Arnold, "Cromwell" References 30em Sources Pearson Hesketh Dickens Methuen London 1949 External links Published 1843 Books at Goodreads 1843 Books at Goodreads