1850 in literature

none 1850 literature poetry July 2024 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1850. Events thumb|Balzac caricatured in the year of his death by Nadar January – The collected works of Edgar Allan Poe (died 1849) begin posthumous publication, co-edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Later in the year, Griswold adds a memoir to the third volume, denigrating Poe's reputation, based partly on forged evidence.Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe: Essential Tales & Poems https://books.google.com/books?id=xT_YAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT551 16 September 2013 Top Five Books LLC 978-1-938938-10-8 551 January–April – The Germ, a periodical of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood edited by William Michael Rossetti, is published (four issues, the last two retitled Art and Poetry).Isobel Armstrong Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poets and Politics https://books.google.com/books?id=CQSKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA504 11 September 2002 Routledge 978-1-134-97066-7 504The periodical was not a success, only surviving for four issues between January and April 1850. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=germ The Germ University of Pennsylvania December 12, 2024 March – The weekly magazine Household Words, "conducted by Charles Dickens," begins publication in London. That Dickens owned half of the company and his agents, John Forster and William Henry Wills, owned a further quarter of it was insurance that the author would have a free hand in the paper. Wills was also appointed associate editor and, in December 1849, Dickens's acquaintance, writer and poet Richard Henry Horne was appointed sub-editor at a salary of "five guineas a week". Blainey Ann The farthing poet : a biography of Richard Hengist Horne, 1802–84; a lesser literary lion. Longmans 1963 London 179The magazine continued until 1859, ending due to a dispute between Dickens and the publishers Bradbury and Evans over their refusal to print his "personal statement" regarding his divorce in their other magazine, Punch.Varma, 2009. March 14 – Honoré de Balzac marries Ewelina Hańska at Berdyczów.V. S. Pritchett V. S. Pritchett 1973 Balzac New York Alfred A. Knopf Inc 0-394-48357-X 261–262 registration https://archive.org/details/balzac00vspr/page/261 The marriage ended with his death only five months later. Both Hańska and Balzac took ill after their wedding; Hańska suffered from a severe attack of gout. She recovered, but her husband did not. They returned to Paris in late May, and Balzac's health improved slightly at the start of summer. By July, however, he was confined to his bed.Robb, pp. 404–407; Maurois, pp. 543–546. Robb debunks the rumor that Eve made love to Jean Gigoux while Balzac slipped toward death.In mid-August, Balzac succumbed to gangrene and began having fits of delirium. At one point, he called out for Horace Bianchon, the fictional doctor he had included in many novels.Robb, p. 409. He suggests that this was "surely a humorous recognition that nothing now could save him".He died on 18 August 1850.Robb, pp. 409–410; Cronin, p. 210; Maurois, pp. 548–549. March 16 – Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical novel The Scarlet Letter is published by William Ticknor and James T. Fields in Boston, Massachusetts, where it is set. It sells 2,500 copies in ten days. A second edition appears by the end of the month. May 1 – The earliest surviving mention of the composition of Moby-Dick appears in a letter Herman Melville writes to Richard Henry Dana Jr. May (late) – Alfred Tennyson's poem In Memoriam A.H.H., commemorating the death of his friend and fellow poet Arthur Hallam in 1833, is published by Edward Moxon in London. The writer's anonymity is broken on June 1 by The Publishers' Circular.F. B. Pinion 1850 A Tennyson Chronology https://archive.org/details/tennysonchronolo0000pini registration Basingstoke Macmillan 1990 0-333-46020-0Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm June 13 – Alfred Tennyson marries his childhood friend Emily Sellwood at Shiplake. July – William Wordsworth's The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem, on which he has worked since 1798, is first published about three months after his death by Edward Moxon in London in 14 books, with the title supplied by the poet's widow, Mary.F. B. Pinion A Wordsworth Chronology Basingstoke Macmillan 1988 0-333-38860-7 August 5 – Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville meet for the first time, together with Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and publisher James T. Fields, on a picnic expedition to Monument Mountain (Berkshire County, Massachusetts).978-184831-247-0 Love, Sex, Death & Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature John Sutherland John Sutherland (author) Stephen Fender London Icon 2011 5 August 294–5 September 26 – The first play by Henrik Ibsen to be performed, The Burial Mound (Kjæmpehøjen), opens at the Christiania Theatre under the pseudonym Brynjolf Bjarme. His first written play, Catiline, completed this year, will not be performed until 1881. November A new edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poems is published by Chapman & Hall in London, including in volume 2 her Sonnets from the Portuguese, written during her courtship by Robert Browning in about 1845–1846. The most famous will be No. 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.") Salford Museum and Art Gallery opens as "The Royal Museum & Public Library", as England's first unconditionally free public library.Founded under the Museums Act 1845.http://www.visitsalford.info/whattosee/heritage/industrialheritage/industrialheritage1st.htm visitsalford.info 1st In Salford 2008-01-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20090107050723/http://www.visitsalford.info/whattosee/heritage/industrialheritage/industrialheritage1st.htm 2009-01-07 dead November 1 – Charles Dickens's novel David Copperfield – The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account) – concludes serial publication and on November 14 appears complete in book form from Bradbury and Evans in London. November 19 – Alfred Tennyson is named Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in succession to William Wordsworth, but only after Samuel Rogers has declined the offer because of his ageOxford DNB theme: Poets laureate. and Tennyson is assured that birthday odes will not be required of him. unknown date – Ivan Turgenev completes the writing of his play A Month in the Country («Месяц в деревне», Mesiats v derevne) as The Student in Paris, but it is rejected by the Saint Petersburg censor and will not be published until 1855 or performed until 1872. New books Fiction Wilkie Collins – Antonina, or The Fall of Rome Charles Dickens – David Copperfield (complete in book form) Alexandre Dumas, fils – Tristan le Roux Alexandre Dumas, père – The Black Tulip (La Tulipe Noire) Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter Caroline Lee Hentz Linda Rena, the Snowbird Jón Thoroddsen – Piltur og Stúlka (Boy and Girl, the first novel in Icelandic)Islandica https://books.google.com/books?id=kyVKAAAAYAAJ 1948 Cornell University Library 42 Herman Melville – White-JacketHerman Melville White-Jacket by Herman Melville - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) https://books.google.com/books?id=bJzWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT8 17 July 2017 Delphi Classics 978-1-78877-487-1 8 Alexei Pisemsky – The Simpleton («Тюфя′к», Tyufyak) James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest (probable authors) – The String of Pearls (complete in book form; the first literary appearance of Sweeney Todd) Frank Smedley – Frank Fairleigh William Makepeace Thackeray – Pendennis (complete in book form)Pendennis http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/267707/Pendennis Encyclopædia Britannica 12 June 2014 Ivan Turgenev – The Diary of a Superfluous Man («Дневник лишнего человека», Dnevnik lishnevo cheloveka) Cornwell Neil The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature Routledge New York 2001 978-0-415-23366-8 Ch. 10: The Superfluous Man in Russian Literature Chances Ellen 111 Jemima von Tautphoeus – The Initials Susan Warner (as Elizabeth Wetherell) – The Wide, Wide World Drama Vasile Alecsandri – Chirița în Iași Christian Friedrich Hebbel – Herodes and Mariamne Paul Heyse – Francesca von Rimini Henrik Ibsen – The Burial Mound (Kjæmpehøjen)Norman Rhodes Ibsen and the Greeks : the classical Greek dimension in selected works of Henrik Ibsen as mediated by German and Scandinavian culture Bucknell University Press 1995 9780838752982 70 Alexander Ostrovsky – It's a Family Affair-We'll Settle It Ourselves («Свои люди», Svoi lyudi - sotchtemsya, originally Bankrut)Merriam-Webster, Inc Encyclopaedia Britannica Publishers, Inc. Staff Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=eKNK1YwHcQ4C&pg=PA844 1995 Merriam-Webster 978-0-87779-042-6 844 Ivan Turgenev – A Month in the Country (written) Poetry Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Sonnets from the PortugueseElizabeth Barrett Browning The Complete Poetical Works of Mrs. Browning Houghton Mifflin 1900 xvi Robert Browning – Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day Alfred Tennyson – In Memoriam A.H.H.https://archive.org/details/completepoetical00tenn The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson 1898 The Riverside Press James Rolfe William William James Rolfe Cambridge, Mass. 162 William Wordsworth – The Prelude Non-fiction Ivar Aasen – Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects (Ordbog over det Norske Folkesprog) Mary Anne Atwood – A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery Frédéric Bastiat – The Law (La Loi) Thomas Carlyle – Latter-Day Pamphlets Ralph Waldo Emerson – Representative Men Friedrich Engels – The Peasant War in Germany (Der deutsche Bauernkrieg) Alexander Herzen – From Another Shore («С того берега», S togo berega) Washington Irving – Mahomet and His Successors Julia Kavanagh – Women in France during the Eighteenth Century Søren Kierkegaard (as Anti-Climacus) – Practice in Christianity (Indøvelse i Christendom) Births 110px|thumb|Rose Hartwick Thorpe January 14 – Pierre Loti, French novelist (died 1923)Clive Wake The Novels of Pierre Loti https://books.google.com/books?id=9uxcAAAAMAAJ 1974 Mouton 978-90-279-2660-9 15 January 15 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet, novelist and journalist (died 1889)Ion Creangă Mihai Eminescu Selected Works of Ion Creangǎ and Mihai Eminescu https://books.google.com/books?id=xpRiAAAAMAAJ 1991 East European Monographs 978-973-21-0270-1 ix January 24 – Mary Noailles Murfree, American novelist (died 1922)Robert Etc Bain Fifty Southern Writers Before 1900: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook https://books.google.com/books?id=v7xZAAAAMAAJ 1987 Greenwood Press 978-0-313-24518-3 337 January 27 – John Collier, British writer and painter (died 1934)Walter Yust Encyclopædia Britannica https://books.google.com/books?id=7J3nAAAAMAAJ 1954 Encyclopædia Britannica 18 February 1 – Emma Churchman Hewitt, American author and journalist (died 1921) February 6 – Elizabeth Williams Champney, American author (died 1922)Herringshaw's American Blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of ... An Accurate Biographical Record of Prominent Citizens in All Walks of Life ... https://books.google.com/books?id=8yVRAQAAMAAJ 1915 American Publishers' Association 243 February 8 – Kate Chopin, American writer (died 1904)Emily Toth Per Seyersted Kate Chopin's Private Papers https://books.google.com/books?id=rmKHY82gFJ8C&pg=PA1 22 October 1998 Indiana University Press 0-253-11593-0 1 February 24 – Mary De Morgan, English children's writer and suffragist (died 1907) February 27 –Laura E. Richards, American author (died 1943) March 26 – Edward Bellamy, American Utopian novelist and socialist (died 1898)Howard Quint, The Forging of American Socialism: Origins of the Modern Movement: The Impact of Socialism on American Thought and Action, 1886–1901. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1953; p. 74. April 11 – Rosetta Luce Gilchrist, American physician, author (died 1921) April 12 – Agnes Catherine Maitland, English academic, novelist and cookery writer (died 1906)34836 Enid Huws Jones Maitland, Agnes Catherine (1849–1906) April 13 – Bernhard Alexander (Alexander Márkus), Hungarian philosopher and polymath (died 1927) April 16 – Auguste Groner, Austrian detective fiction writer (died 1929) April 30 Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller, American novelist (died 1937)The West Virginia Encyclopedia West Virginia Humanities Council 2006 9780977849802 478 Ieronim Yasinsky, Russian novelist, poet, critic and essayist (died 1931) June 18 Cyrus H. K. Curtis, American publisher (died 1933)Feld Rose C. 1922 Cyrus H. K. Curtis, The Man: Musician, Editor, Publisher and Capitalist The New York Times 22 October 1922 https://www.nytimes.com/1922/10/22/archives/cyrus-hk-curtis-the-man-musician-editor-publisher-and-capitalist.html 7 April 2013 Alice Moore McComas, American author, editor, lecturer and reformer (died 1919)Leonard John W. Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915 https://archive.org/details/womanswhoswhoam00leongoog 512 Public domain 1914 American commonwealth Company McComas, Alice Moore June 27 – Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo), Greek-born Irish American scholar and writer on Japan (died 1904) July 2 – Dumitru C. Moruzi, Russian-born Romanian political figure and social novelist (died 1914) July 9 (June 27 O.S.) – Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright (died 1921) July 18 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet and author (died 1939) July 25 – Lydia J. Newcomb Comings, American author, educator, lecturer (died 1946) August 5 – Guy de Maupassant, French novelist and short story writer (died 1893)Alain-Claude Gicquel, Maupassant, tel un météore, Le Castor Astral, 1993, p. 12 August 10 – Ella M. S. Marble, American physician (died 1929) August 30 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist and reformist leader (died 1896) Nieva Gregorio 1916 The Philippine Review (Revista Filipina) Gregorio Nieva 5 Manila 24397107 https://books.google.com/books?id=9pAv2KDxmDcC 198 September 2 – Eugene Field, American poet and essayist (died 1895) September 6 – Marion Howard Brazier, American journalist (died 1935) October 26 – Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist, author of many books on ancient Dacia (died 1909) November 5 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American writer and poet (died 1919) November 13 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer (died 1894)Sir Graham Balfour The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Sir Graham Balfour - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) https://books.google.com/books?id=6pTWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT44 17 July 2017 Delphi Classics 978-1-78656-800-7 44 December 23 – Louise Reed Stowell, American scientist, author (died 1932)Marquis Albert Nelson Who's who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut https://books.google.com/books?id=5jk1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1033 Public domain 1915 A.N. Marquis & Company Unknown date – Annie Armitt, English novelist and poet (died 1933) Deaths January 20 – Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet and dramatist (born 1779)Radio Liberty Research Bulletin https://books.google.com/books?id=i4zwAAAAMAAJ 1985 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 7 April 7 – William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (born 1762) April 23 – William Wordsworth, English poet (born 1770)Helen Darbishire Wordsworth https://books.google.com/books?id=V8jpAAAAMAAJ 1964 Longmans, Green & Company 6 May 24 – Jane Porter, Scottish novelist and dramatist (born 1776) May 31 – Giuseppe Giusti, Italian poet (born 1809) July 6 – Alexander Jamieson, Scottish textbook writer, schoolmaster and rhetorician (born 1782)Sylvanus Urban Sylvanus Urban The Gentleman's Magazine: Historical Chronicle https://books.google.com/books?id=-rEUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369 1820 369 Retrieved 5 July 2020. July 14 – August Neander, German theologian (born 1789)Neander, Johann August Wilhelm https://books.google.com/books?id=R4bhIDZlYyYC&pg=PA321 321 July 19 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist and critic (presumed drowned, born 1810)Deiss, Joseph Jay (1969): The Roman Years of Margaret Fuller (NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Co.), p. 313. August 18 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (heart condition, born 1799)Pritchett, V. S. (1973). Balzac. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc. 0-394-48357-X Page 263 August 22 – Nikolaus Lenau (Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau), Austrian poet (insanity, born 1802) November 4 – Gustav Schwab, German writer and publisher (born 1792) November 10 – Lumley Skeffington, English playwright and fop (born 1771) December 4 – Robert Gilfillan, Scottish poet (born 1798)David Baptie Musical Scotland https://books.google.com/books?id=EeeuAfSxlp0C&pg=PA64 1972 Georg Olms Verlag 978-3-487-40254-3 64 December 24 – Frédéric Bastiat, French political philosopher (tuberculosis; born 1801)https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/55610/Frederic-Bastiat Frederic Bastiat Encyclopædia Britannica 2 July 2019 21 October 2019 December 29 – William Hamilton Maxwell, Scots-Irish novelist (born 1792)Bernard Burke Arthur Charles Fox-Davies A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=diHHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA183 1 January 1912 Dalcassian Publishing Company 183 Awards Chancellor's Gold Medal – Julian Fane, "Monody on the death of Adelaide, the Queen Dowager"The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, vol 1., p. 287. Accessed 13 January 2014 Newdigate Prize – Frederick William Faber, "The Knights of St John"Faber, Frederick William 10 111–112 References 30em Sources Cronin, Vincent. The Romantic Way. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. 1298969. Maurois, André. Prometheus: The Life of Balzac. Trans. Norman Denny. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1965. 978-0-88184-023-0. Robb, Graham. Balzac: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. 978-0-393-03679-4. Varma Teja 'No Escape to be Had, No Absolution to be Got': Divorce in the Lives and Novels of Charles Dickens and Caroline Norton https://victorianweb.org/gender/varma.html The Victorian Web 8 February 2023 External links Published 1850 Books at Goodreads 1850 Books at Goodreads