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Events
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January 25 – William Macready opens a performance of King Lear at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, restoring most of William Shakespeare's original text, including the character of the Fool.Mullin Emily Macready's Triumph: The Restoration of King Lear to the British Stage http://repository.upenn.edu/phr/vol18/iss1/3/ Penn History Review Berkeley Electronic Press 2010 18 1 17–35 2018-05-30
January 28 – The second night of Henrik Wergeland's satirical musical play Campbellerne (The Campbells) in Christiania (Norway) provokes a riot.
March – The Monthly Chronicle, "a national journal of politics, literature, science, and art", begins publication by Longman in London.
June 7 – English poet and novelist Letitia Elizabeth Landon marries George Maclean, travelling with him in early August to Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast, where she dies on October 15 of a spasm arising from a heart defect.
October 19 – Poet Alfred de Musset is appointed librarian of the Ministry of the Interior in France.
November 3 – The Times of India is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce by Raobahadur Narayan Dinanath Velkar in Bombay.http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/596251/The-Times-of-India The Times of India Encyclopædia Britannica 24 July 2024
November 8 – French novelist George Sand begins an uncomfortable winter living with her lover, the ailing Polish-born composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin, on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca in the abandoned Carthusian monastery of Valldemossa.Described by her in Un hiver à Majorque fr ("A Winter in Majorca", 1842).
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Anna Maria Bunn's Gothic fiction The Guardian: a tale ("by an Australian") is published in Sydney. It is the first Australian novel printed and published in mainland Australia (although set in the author's native Ireland) and the first by a woman.Turcotte Gerry 1998 http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1060&context=artspapers Australian Gothic PDF University of Wollongong 2008-01-09
George Palmer Putnam and John Wiley form the book publishing and retail firm of Wiley & Putnam in New York City. It is the forerunner of G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Lady Charlotte Guest begins publication of her translation into English of the Welsh traditional tales known as the Mabinogion.
New books
Fiction
Hendrik Conscience – De Leeuw van Vlaanderen (The Lion of Flanders)
Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby (serialization begins)
Oliver Twist (in book form)
Théophile Gautier – "One of Cleopatra's Nights" (short story)
William Nugent Glascock – Land Sharks and Sea Gulls
Edward Howard (as "edited by the author of Peter Simple") – Rattling the Reefer
Karl Leberecht Immermann – Münchhausen
John Pendleton Kennedy – Rob of the Bowl
Edgar Allan Poe
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
"Ligeia" (short story)
George Sand
L'Orco
L'Uscoque
Ann Sophia Stephens – Mary Derwent
Robert Smith Surtees – Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities
Frances Milton Trollope – A Romance of Vienna
Children
Hans Christian Andersen – Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. First Booklet (Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Ny Samling. Første Hefte) comprising "The Daisy" ("Gåseurten"), "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" ("Den standhaftige tinsoldat") and "The Wild Swans" ("De vilde svaner")
Drama
Dion Boucicault – A Legend of the Devil's Dyke
Edward Bulwer – The Lady of Lyons
Charles Dickens – The Lamplighter: a farce in one act (rejected for performance)The Lamplighter – by Charles Dickens (1838) http://home.earthlink.net/~bsabatini/Inimitable-Boz/etexts/Lamplighter.html 2014-12-17 2014-11-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20141107014700/http://home.earthlink.net/~bsabatini/Inimitable-Boz/etexts/Lamplighter.html dead
Franz Grillparzer – Weh dem, der lügt! de
James Haynes – Durazzo
Victor Hugo – Ruy Blas
James Sheridan Knowles
The Maid of Mariendorpt
Woman's Wit
Martins Pena – O Juiz de Paz na Roça pt (The Roça Justice of the Peace)
Thomas Talfourd – The Athenian Captive
Poetry
Elizabeth Barrett Browning – The Seraphim and Other Poems
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop – "The Aboriginal Mother"
Martin Tupper – Proverbial Philosophy
Non-fiction
Lady Charlotte Bury – Diary Illustrative of the Times of George IV
Giacomo Casanova – Memoirs (final volume)
Ralph Waldo Emerson – The Divinity School Address
Anna Brownell Jameson – Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada
Gideon Mantell – The Wonders of Geology, or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena...
Harriet Martineau – How to Observe Morals and Manners
Samuel Smiles – Physical Education
Baron Jules Dupotet de Sennevoy – Introduction to the Study of Animal Magnetism
Births
January 4 – Eliza Archard Conner, American novelist, journalist, and feminist (died 1912)
February 6 – Henry Irving, English actor and theatre manager (died 1905)
February 22 – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, American author, poet, and editor (died 1912)
March 6 – Mary Dickens, English memoirist, editor and novelist (died 1896)
April 25 – Mary Torrans Lathrap, American author and reformer (died 1895)
April 30 – Abba Goold Woolson, American writer (died 1921)
June 26 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali writer (died 1894)
July – Emma Pike Ewing, American author and educator (died 1917)Thomas William Herringshaw Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States... https://books.google.com/books?id=JL3TAAAAMAAJ 1909 American Publishers' Association 408
July 20 – Augustin Daly, American dramatist and theatre manager (died 1899)
October 2 – Hester A. Benedict, American poet (died 1921)
October 25 – Annie Hall Cudlip, English novelist, journalist and editor (died 1918)
November 7 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French Symbolist writer (died 1889)
December 22 – Clara Doty Bates, American author (died 1895)
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Josephine E. Keating, American literary critic, musician and music teacher (died 1908)
Martha D. Lincoln, American author and journalist (died 1911)
Deaths
March 28 – Thomas Morton, English playwright (born 1764)
April 12 – Johann Adam Möhler, German theologian (born 1796)
April 18 – Mariana Starke, English playwright and travel writer (born 1761 or 1762)
July 12 – John Jamieson, Scottish lexicographer (born 1759)Biography of John Jamieson http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH26907&type=P www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk 20 March 2018
August 24 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and critic (born 1790)Ferenc Kolcsey https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferenc-Kolcsey Encyclopedia Britannica 20 March 2018 en
September 9 – Emma Jane Greenland, English painter, writer (born 1760 or 1761)
October 15 – Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist (born 1802)
November 10 (October 29 O.S.) – Ivan Kotliarevsky, Ukrainian writer (born 1769)
December 17 – Józef Zawadzki, Polish publisher (born 1781)
December 20 – Hégésippe Moreau, French poet (born 1810)
December 26 – Ann Hatton, English novelist (born 1764)
unknown date – Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin, Irish writer in Gaelic (born 1780)Georges Denis Zimmermann The Irish Storyteller https://books.google.com/books?id=5IKBAAAAMAAJ 2001 Four Courts Press 978-1-85182-622-3 205
References
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External links
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