1846 in literature

none 1846 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1846. Events thumb|One of the year's least successful publications January 3 – The American author Edgar Allan Poe issues the final edition of the Broadway Journal, a journal he owned for just a few months.Arthur Hobson Quinn Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=HRsAEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA494 25 November 1997 JHU Press 978-0-8018-5730-0 494 The Broadway Journal attempted to be a more serious intellectual journal, compared to others at the time. Because of this, it had a smaller audience and was less financially successful. It emphasized literary reviews but also featured criticism of Art, theater, and music as well as poetry and articles on politics.Meyers, Jeffrey. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1992: 169 0-8154-1038-7 January 15 – Fyodor Dostoevsky's first original novel, Poor Folk (Бедные люди, Bednye Lyudi), is published in the St. Petersburg Collection.https://books.google.com/books?id=mDKphT8_XLsC Dostoevsky: His Life and Work Mochulsky Konstantin 1973 Princeton University Press 0-691-01299-7 24, 46 Poor Folk explores poverty and the relationship between the poor and the rich, common themes of literary naturalism. Largely influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat, Alexander Pushkin's The Stationmaster and Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard and Héloïse d’Argenteuil,Apollonio 2009 13 it is an epistolary novel composed of letters written by Varvara and her close friend Makar Devushkin. The name of the book and the main female character were adapted from Nikolai Karamzin's Poor Liza.Frank 2009 73 January 21 – The daily newspaper The Daily News, edited by Charles Dickens, first appears in London. It was conceived as a radical rival to the right-wing Morning Chronicle. After 17 issues Dickens hands over as editor to his friend John Forster. Forster ran the paper until 1870.London Daily News: General Description, Rossetti Archive.Undated.Accessed: 2007-09-14. The newspaper continued until 1930, when it merged with the Daily Chronicle to form the centre-left News Chronicle.Crawford, Elizabeth. (1999) The Women's Suffrage Movement, p. 453. April Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales are first translated into English, beginning with "The Little Mermaid" in Bentley's Miscellany. Poe's essay "The Philosophy of Composition" is published in Graham's Magazine.Dawn B. Sova Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work https://books.google.com/books?id=RG8zr6-BJNwC&pg=PA426 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-1-4381-0842-1 426 c. May 22 – The Brontë sisters' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, appears in London.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm It sells only two copies in the first year.The Oxford Companion to the Brontës Christine Alexander Margaret Smith Oxford University Press 2006 978-0-19-866218-1 registration https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000unse_x4t6 June 27 – Charlotte Brontë completes the manuscript of her novel The Professor. It is offered to several publishers during the year but rejected. August 15 – The Scott Monument to Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh (Scotland) is inaugurated.http://www.aboutbritain.com/ScottMonument.htm Scott Monument AboutBritain 2010-11-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20101031080348/http://www.aboutbritain.com/ScottMonument.htm 31 October 2010 live September 12 – The poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, and depart for the continent a week later.Marjorie Stone, "Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806–1861)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, October 2008. October 1 – Serial publication of Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son begins.Leon Litvack Charles Dickens's Dombey and son : an annotated bibliography AMS Press 1999 040461499X 20 November 21 – The String of Pearls: a Romance, probably written by James Malcolm Rymer, begins serialization in Britain. This is the first literary appearance of Sweeney Todd.Smith Helen R. New light on Sweeney Todd 2002 Jarndyce London 28 unknown dates Mary Howitt's Wonderful Stories for Children is the first English translation of works by Hans Christian Andersen to be published in book format.Peter France The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation https://books.google.com/books?id=JKTD2B2jxA8C&pg=PA109 2000 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-818359-4 109 Isaac D. Baker and Charles Scribner form the New York City publisher Baker & Scribner, predecessor of Charles Scribner's Sons. New books Fiction Honoré de Balzac - Cousin Bette (written) Charlotte Brontë - The Professor (written) Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Children of the Night James Fenimore Cooper – The Redskins Charles Dickens – The Battle of Life (novella) Fyodor Dostoevsky The Double: A Petersburg Poem («Двойник», Dvoynik (novella)) Poor Folk («Бедные люди», Bednye Lyudi) Alexandre Dumas, père Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge (The Knight of the Maison-Rouge: A Novel of Marie Antoinette)Alexandre Dumas The Knight of Maison-Rouge: A Novel of Marie Antoinette Random House Publishing Group 2003 9781588363350 The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, serialization concluded; first English translation) Thomas Dunn English – MDCCCXLII, or The Power of the "S. F" Dmitry Grigorovich – The Village («Деревня», Derevnya) Nathaniel Hawthorne – Mosses from an Old Manse Douglas Jerrold The Chronicles of Clovernook Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures Mór Jókai – Weekdays (Hétköznapok) James Sheridan Knowles – Fortescue Frederick Marryat – The Privateersman Herman Melville – Typee James Malcolm Rymer - The String of Pearls George Sand – La Mare au Diable (The Devil's Pond) Children Anne Knight – School-Room Lyrics Hannah and Mary Townsend – The Anti-Slavery Alphabet Drama Paul Bocage – Échec et mat Carolina Coronado – El cuadro de la esperanza Gustav Freytag – Die Valentine Eugène Marin Labiche and Auguste Lefranc – Frisette George William Lovell Look Before You Leap The Wife's Secret Martins Pena – first performances A Barriga do Meu Tio Os Ciúmes de um Pedestre, ou O Terrível Capitão do Mato As Desgraças de uma Criança pt Os Meirinhos Um Segredo de Estado O Usurário Joseph Isidore Samson – La Famille poisson Poetry Gottfried Keller – Gedichte (Poems) Edward Lear – Book of NonsensePalmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 268–269 0-7126-5616-2 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – The Belfry of Bruges Non-fiction Selim Aga – Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, A Native of Central Africa Mary Anne Atwood (as Θυος Μαθος) – Early Magnetism in its Higher Relations to Humanity Curtis H. Cavender (as H.C. Decanver) – Catalogue of Works in Refutation of Methodism Charles Dickens – Pictures from Italy F. W. Fairholt – Costume in England George Grote – A History of Greece (publication begins) George W. Johnson – A Dictionary of Gardening Søren Kierkegaard – Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift til de philosophiske Smuler) David Strauss – The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined, translated by George Eliot from Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet Theodor Waitz – Grundlegung der Psychologie (Foundation of Psychology) William Whewell – Elements of Morality Births March 17 – Kate Greenaway, English book illustrator and writer (died 1901)Humphrey Carpenter Mari Prichard 1984 Kate Greenaway The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature Oxford University Press 225-6 0-19-211582-0 March 20 – Rebecca Richardson Joslin, American non-fiction writer (died 1934) March 25 – Helen Zimmern, German-born English writer and translator (died 1934) April 4 – Comte de Lautreamont (pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse), Uruguayan-born French poet and writer (died 1870) April 24 – Marcus Clarke, Australian novelist and poet (died 1881)Clarke, Marcus May 5 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish novelist (died 1916) May 25 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (died 1900) June 3 – Estelle Mendell Amory, American educator and author (died 1923) June 30 – Frances Margaret Milne, Irish-born American author and librarian (died 1910) July 5 – Christian Reid (pen name of Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan), American author (died 1920) August 2 – Lucy Clifford (née Lucy Lane), English novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (died 1929) August 5 Louise Manning Hodgkins, American educator, author, and editor (died 1935) Alvilde Prydz, Norwegian novelist (died 1922)Prydz, Frithjof Hvem er Hvem? Haandbog over samtidige norske mænd og kvinder 1912 https://runeberg.org/hvemerhvem/1912/0217.html 1 Chr Brinchmann Christopher Brinchmann Anders Daae K.V. Hammer Kristiania Aschehoug Norwegian 23 September 2016 September 3 – Emma Shaw Colcleugh, American author (died 1940) October 1 – John Cadvan Davies, Welsh poet and Wesleyan Methodist minister (died 1923)s-DAVI-CAD-1846 Davies, John Cadvan Edward Tegla Davies Edward Tegla Davies 13 October 2020 October 21 – Edmondo De Amicis, Italian novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer (died 1908) unknown date – Mary Foot Seymour, American businesswoman and writer (died 1893)Anne Commire Deborah Klezmer Women in World History: Schu-Sui https://books.google.com/books?id=jUAOAQAAMAAJ 2002 Yorkin Publications 978-0-7876-4073-6 168 Deaths January 6 – Lewis Goldsmith, Anglo-French journalist (born c. 1763) February 9 – Henry Gally Knight, English writer and traveler (born 1786) March 10 – Harriette Wilson, English memoirist (born 1786)Frances Wilson The Courtesan's Revenge: The Life of Harriette Wilson, the Woman Who Blackmailed the King June 24 – Jan Frans Willems, Flemish poet and political activist (born 1793) July 12 – Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, English novelist (born 1790) September 4 – Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, French dramatist (born 1764)Pichois, Claude. "Pour une biographie d'Étienne Jouy", Revue des sciences humaines (April–June 1965:227–252; given a synopsis in Furman, N., La Revue Des Deux Mondes Et Le Romantisme (1831–1848) 1974:12 note 5. November 23 – George Darley, Irish poet, novelist, and critic (born 1795) December 13 – Pasquale Galluppi, Italian philosopher (born 1770) Awards Chancellor's Gold Medal – Edward Henry Bickersteth Newdigate Prize – G. O. MorganCollege rhymes, contributed by members of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge https://books.google.com/books?id=4e8IAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA6-PA9 1868 6 References 30em Sources https://books.google.com/books?id=f528B-AjMegC Apollonio Carol Dostoevsky's Secrets: Reading Against the Grain 2009 Northwestern University Press 978-0-8101-2532-2 https://books.google.com/books?id=lp1RpM8o9BQC Frank Joseph Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time 1–5 2009 Princeton University Press 978-0-691-12819-1 https://books.google.com/books?id=mDKphT8_XLsC Dostoevsky: His Life and Work Mochulsky Konstantin 1973 Princeton University Press 0-691-01299-7 External links Published 1846 Books at Goodreads 1846 Books at Goodreads