1840 in literature

none 1840 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1840. Events thumb|right|Fritz Reuter, 1833 self-portrait June – An amnesty to mark the accession of King Frederick William IV of Prussia frees the novelist Fritz Reuter from the Dömitz Fortress after two years' imprisonment on a charge of high treason.Reuter, Fritz 1 1920 July 6 – Novelists Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray independently attend the hanging outside Newgate Prison in London of the murderer François Benjamin Courvoisier, who blames the influence of W. Harrison Ainsworth's Newgate novel Jack Sheppard (which concluded serialization in Bentley's Miscellany in February) for his crime.John Sutherland John Sutherland (author) The Dickens Dictionary London Icon 2012 978-184831-391-0 67–71 Thackeray writes the experience up as "Going to See a Man Hanged" in this month's issue of Fraser's Magazine;(22: 150-158; repr. in The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (1869) (London: Smith, Elder & Co.) 15:386) Dickens in The Daily News in February 1846. Thackeray's first novel, Catherine, serialization of which also concluded in February, had been intended as a critique of the Newgate novel. August 10 – Fortsas hoax: Bibliophiles gather in Binche, Belgium for an auction of 52 unique, meticulously catalogued books from the collection of the late Comte de Fortsas. The Count, the books and the auction all prove fictitious.Klinefelter Walter The Fortsas Bibliohoax New York Press of the Woolly Whale 1942 unknown dates The Percy Society is established in Britain to publish scholarly editions of early works in English.P. J. A. Levine The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaeologists in Victorian England 1838-1886 https://books.google.com/books?id=N6Yv2zB-HVIC&pg=PA179 13 February 2003 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-53050-7 179 William Martin publishes the first edition of Peter Parley's Annual, a periodical imitating earlier American works by Samuel Griswold Goodrich.George Gregory Smith Martin, William (1801-1867) 36 302R. B. Kershner Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature: Chronicles of Disorder https://books.google.com/books?id=bD6Lstgd2CIC&pg=PA218 1992 UNC Press Books 978-0-8078-4387-1 218 New books Fiction W. Harrison Ainsworth Guy Fawkes (serialization) The Tower of London (serialization)Hahn Daniel The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 2015 Oxford. University Press 9780198715542 11 2nd Hans Christian Andersen – The Wicked Prince Henry Cockton – Valentine Vox James Fenimore Cooper – The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea Charles Dickens – The Old Curiosity Shop (serialization in Master Humphrey's Clock) Alexandre Dumas, père – Otho the Archer Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard Harris Barham) – The Ingoldsby Legends (collected in book form) Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald – Plague of Wine Mikhail Lermontov – A Hero of Our Time Harriet Martineau – The Hour and the Man Prosper Mérimée – Colomba John Neal Seventy-Six; or, Love and Battle (London publication) Sears Donald A. John Neal Twayne Publishers Boston, Massachusetts 1978 080-5-7723-08 145 Logan, the Mingo Chief. A Family History (London publication) University of Chicago Press 0-226-46969-7 Lease Benjamin That Wild Fellow John Neal and the American Literary Revolution Chicago, Illinois 1972 205 Edgar Allan Poe – Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque William Makepeace Thackeray – Catherine (serialization concludes)* Frances Milton Trollope – Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy Children Hans Christian Andersen – The Wicked Prince (Den onde Fyrste, published in Salon, October) Esther Copley – Early Friendship. A Tale for Young People Frederick Marryat Olla Podrida Poor Jack Drama Nikolai Gogol - The Gamblers Namiki Gohei III – Kanjinchō (勧進帳) James Haynes – Mary Stuart Christian Hebbel – Judith James Kenney – The Sicilian Vespers Andreas Munch – Donna ClaraPoetisk realisme og nasjonalromantikk Norges Litteraturhistorie 2 Ingard Hauge Norwegian Beyer, Edvard Edvard Beyer 318–325 1975 Cappelen Oslo Thomas Serle – Master Clarke Thomas Talfourd – Glencoe Jose Zorilla – El Zapatero y el Rey Poetry Victor Hugo – Les Rayons et les Ombres Mikhail Lermontov – Mtsyri (The Novice) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – "The Wreck of the Hesperus" Taras Shevchenko – Kobzar (The Bard) Non-fiction Louis Agassiz – Études sur les glaciers Richard Henry Dana Jr. – Two Years Before the Mast Pierre-Joseph Proudhon – What is Property? or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (Qu'est-ce que la propriété ? ou Recherche sur le principe du Droit et du Gouvernement) Dimitrie Ralet – Scrieri (Writings) Anton Schindler – Biographie von Ludwig van BeethovenAnton Schindler Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven https://books.google.com/books?id=3I9TAAAAcAAJ 1840 Aschendorff Agnes Strickland – Lives of the Queens of England (begins publication) Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America (De La Démocratie en Amérique) (vol. 2) Flora Tristan – Promenades dans Londres (Promenades in London)Flora Tristan Doris Beik Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist: Her Travel Diaries and Personal Crusade https://books.google.com/books?id=yuXaiU4XNcIC&pg=PA53 1993 Indiana University Press 0-253-31163-2 53 William Whewell – The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, founded upon their history Births January 18 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and essayist (died 1921) January 21 – Sophia Jex-Blake, English medical writer and pioneer female physician (died 1912) January 26 – Esther Tuttle Pritchard, American editor, educator, and missionary (died 1900) February 5 – Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, Scottish writer and women's rights activist (died 1929) February 15 – Titu Maiorescu, Romanian culture critic, philosopher, and political figure (died 1917) April 2 – Émile Zola, French novelist (died 1902)Frederick William John Hemmings Émile Zola https://books.google.com/books?id=RPqRAAAAIAAJ 1970 Oxford University Press 3 9780198812302 May 1 – Cynthia S. Burnett, American editor, educator, and reformer (died 1932) June 2 – Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (died 1928)Mallikarjun Patil Thomas Hardy: The Poet : a Critical Study https://books.google.com/books?id=uTUvHevEtvAC&pg=PA1 1997 Atlantic Publishers & Dist 978-81-7156-701-0 1 June – Emma L. Shaw, American editor (died 1924) July 2 – Ludwig Rosenthal, German antiquarian bookseller (died 1928) August 6 – Mildred Amanda Baker Bonham, American travel writer (died 1907) August 17 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and radical (died 1922) August 20 – Seraph Frissell, American physician and writer (died 1915) September 2 Emilia, Lady Dilke as Emily Francis Strong, English art historian (died 1904) Giovanni Verga, Sicilian author (died 1922) September 19 – Helen Ekin Starrett, American author, magazine founder, and school founder (died 1920) September 27 – Rosa Nouchette Carey, English children's novelist (died 1909) October 23 – Mary Mathews Adams, Irish-born American writer and philanthropist (died 1902) November 8 – Esther E. Baldwin, American missionary and writer (died 1910) November 29 – Rhoda Broughton, Welsh novelist and short-story writer (died 1920)Marilyn Wood Rhoda Broughton Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920): profile of a novelist https://books.google.com/books?id=-khaAAAAMAAJ 1993 Paul Watkins 978-1-871615-34-0 7 December 28 – Ioan Kalinderu, Romanian classical scholar, jurist and agriculturalist (died 1913) Deaths January 6 – Frances Burney (Fanny Burney, Mme d'Arblay), English novelist and diarist (born 1752)Margaret Anne Doody Frances Burney: The Life in the Works https://books.google.com/books?id=zuKRpP-ViJgC&pg=PA381 6 April 1989 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-36258-0 381 February 4 – Angélique de Rouillé, Belgian letter-writer (born 1756) February 11 – Ivan Kozlov, Russian poet and translator (born 1779) March 3 – Charles Reece Pemberton, British actor and dramatist (born 1790) May 25 – Louisa Capper, English writer, philosopher and poet (born 1776)Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica https://books.google.com/books?id=m1xIAAAAYAAJ 1908 Hamilton, Adams, and Company 79 May 30 – Mary Boyle, Countess of Cork and Orrery, Irish literary hostess (born 1746)Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage https://books.google.com/books?id=NiVNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA259 1868 Burke's Peerage Limited. 259 June 7 – Népomucène Lemercier, poet and dramatist (born 1771) July 7 – Nikolai Stankevich, Russian philosopher and poet (born 1813) August 25 – Karl Leberecht Immermann, German novelist and dramatist (born 1796)Isabel T. Lublin Primer of German Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=Ha9MAAAAYAAJ 1904 Swan Sonnenschein 213 September – Emma Roberts, English travel writer and poet (born 1794) December 8 – Eliza Fenwick, English novelist and children's writer (born (born 1766)Eliza Fenwick Secresy - Second Edition https://books.google.com/books?id=px82gOZWTvgC&pg=PA7 9 October 1998 Broadview Press 978-1-77048-232-6 7 References 30em External links Published 1840 Books at Goodreads 1840 Books at Goodreads