1844 in literature

none 1844 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1844. Events thumb|right|200px|1898 production of The Three Musketeers at the Theatre Metropole January 4 – Swedish-language newspaper Saima, founded by J. V. Snellman, is published for the first time, in Finland.https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/titles/1457-456X/data?set_language=en Saima Digital Collections The National Library of Finland 22 January 2024https://snellman.kootutteokset.fi/en/dokumentit/saima-nro-1-411844 Saima nro 1, 4.1.1844 Selected Works of J V. Snellman 22 January 2024 February 5 – The first three of many theatrical adaptations of A Christmas Carol open in London.Standiford Les 2008 The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits New York Crown 978-0-307-40578-4 https://archive.org/details/manwhoinventedch0000stan 168 March–July – Alexandre Dumas père's historical adventure story The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is serialised in the Paris newspaper Le Siècle.Christopher John Murray Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850 https://books.google.com/books?id=wgS2nYRIuUEC&pg=PA1158 2004 Taylor & Francis 978-1-57958-422-1 1158 August 28 – Alexandre Dumas père's near-recent historical adventure story The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) begins serialization in the Paris newspaper Journal des débats, and continues through to January 1846. Book publication also begins this year. October – George W. M. Reynolds begins publication of the bestselling "penny dreadful" city mysteries series The Mysteries of London. Autumn – Margaret Fuller joins Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune as literary critic, becoming the first full-time female book reviewer in American journalism. December 2 – Emily Brontë writes the poem "A Death-Scene".https://books.google.com/books?id=remXZrCcGl0C&pg=PP20 The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë Hatfield, C. W. Columbia University Press 1941 unknown date – The first volumes of Patrologia Latina, a 217-volume collection of works in Latin, are published in Paris by Jacques Paul Migne. These include the writings of Tertullian and Cyprian, among other authors. New books Fiction William Harrison Ainsworth – St. James's José de Alencar – Os contrabandistas (unpublished, lost) Honoré de Balzac – Les Paysans Charles Dickens The Chimes Martin Chuzzlewit (serial publication ends) Benjamin Disraeli – Coningsby Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo The Three Musketeers Charles Lever – Tom Burke of Ours Joaquim Manuel de Macedo – A Moreninha Edgar Allan Poe – short stories "The Angel of the Odd" "The Premature Burial" G. W. M. Reynolds – The Mysteries of London Eugène Sue – The Wandering Jew (Le Juif Errant) William Makepeace Thackeray – The Luck of Barry Lyndon Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna – The Wrongs of Women Charlotte Mary Yonge – Abbeychurch, or, Self Control and Self Conceit Children and young people Hans Christian Andersen – New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection (Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Anden Samling) comprising "The Fir-Tree" ("Grantræet") and "The Snow Queen" ("Snedronningen") Heinrich Hoffmann – Struwwelpeter Frederick Marryat – Settlers in Canada Elizabeth Missing Sewell – Amy Herbert Drama Émile Augier – La CiguëDavid Coward A History of French Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=RskbBYuzr78C&pg=PA779 Ardent Media 779 Dimitrija Demeter – Teuta Gustav Freytag – Die Brautfahrt, oder Kunz von der Rosen Catherine Gore – Quid Pro Quo Christian Friedrich Hebbel – Maria Magdalene William H. Smith – The DrunkardRon Engle Tice L. Miller The American Stage https://books.google.com/books?id=U0LzkKD5_7IC&pg=PA90 6 May 1993 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-41238-4 90 José Zorilla – Don Juan Tenorio Poetry Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Poems Lydia Maria Child – "Over the River and Through the Wood" Heinrich Heine – Neue GedichteJeffrey L. Sammons Heinrich Heine: A Modern Biography Princeton University Press 1979 275-278 James Russell Lowell – Poems Coventry Patmore – Poems Non-fiction Robert Chambers (anonymously) – Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Joseph Ennemoser – Geschichte der Magie (History of Magic) Søren Kierkegaard (as Vigilius Haufniensis) – The Concept of Anxiety (Begrebet Angest) Karl Marx – "On the Jewish Question" ("Zur Judenfrage") John Stuart Mill – Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy William Smith (editor) – Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Arthur Penrhyn Stanley – Life of Arnold Max Stirner – The Ego and Its Own (Der Einzige und sein Eigentum) Henry Fox Talbot – The Pencil of Nature (first book illustrated with photographs from a camera) Births January 2 – Emeline Harriet Howe, American writer and social activist (died 1934) January 8 – Sarah Carmichael Harrell, American educator, reformer, and writer (died 1929) January 14 – Susan F. Ferree, American writer and activist (died 1910) February 25 – Alice Diehl (née Mangold), English novelist and concert pianist (died 1912)Alice Mangold Diehl The True Story of My Life: An Autobiography by Alice M. Diehl, Novelist-writer-musician, with a Photogravure Portrait https://books.google.com/books?id=1qINAAAAIAAJ 1908 J. Lane 4 March 19 – Minna Canth, Finnish writer and social activist (died 1897)Maijala Minna Minna Canth (1844–1897) http://www.helsinki.fi/sukupuolentutkimus/klassikkogalleria/canth/ Klassikkogalleria Kristiina Institute, University of Helsinki 8 December 2020 March 30 – Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet (died 1896) April 2 – George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher (died 1930) April 16 – Anatole France, French writer (died 1924)https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1921/france/facts/ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1921 www.nobelprize.org 28 September 2023 April 12 – Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis, American poet, writer, and editor (died 1909) May 9 – Sarah Newcomb Merrick, American teacher, writer, and physician (unknown year of death) June 28 – John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (died 1890)https://books.google.com/books?id=eis7AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA325 Life of John Boyle O'Reilly Roche James Jeffrey 1 January 1891 Mershon 79 Google Books 8 March 2017 12 March 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170312065253/https://books.google.com/books?id=eis7AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA325 live July 8 – Janet Milne Rae, Scottish novelist (died 1933)http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2013/01/british-women-writers-of-fiction-1910_59.html British Women Writers of Fiction Furrowed Middlebrow 1 January 2013 16 November 2020 July 21 – Matilda Maranda Crawford, American-Canadian writer and poet (died 1920) July 22 – William Archibald Spooner, English academic and instigator of spoonerisms (died 1930) July 28 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (died 1889)Gerard Manley Hopkins Gerard Manley Hopkins https://books.google.com/books?id=f6CG3olWOEAC&pg=PA1 1960 Ardent Media 1 August 29 – Edward Carpenter, English socialist poet and philosopher (died 1929)Chushichi Tsuzuki Edward Carpenter 1844-1929: Prophet of Human Fellowship https://books.google.com/books?id=RmkwJu2MGSgC&pg=PA6 15 September 2005 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-01959-0 6 September 9 – Maurice Thompson, American novelist (died 1901) October 1 – H. Maria George Colby, American author of novelettes and juvenile literature (died 1910) October 6 – Margret Holmes Bates, American novelist and poet (died 1927) October 15 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (died 1900)Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche https://books.google.com/books?id=dCwBuyahty8C&pg=PA3 1996 Hackett Publishing 0-87220-358-1 3 October 22 or 23 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (died 1923) October 23 Robert Bridges, English poet (died 1930)Lee Templin Hamilton Robert Bridges: An Annotated Bibliography, 1873-1988 https://books.google.com/books?id=YiOgjZY4dGMC&pg=PA11 1991 University of Delaware Press 978-0-87413-364-6 11 Laura Rosamond White, American author, poet, editor (died 1922) October 25 – Joseph Marmette, Canadian novelist and historian (died 1895) October 27 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist (died 1916) November 21 – Ada Cambridge, English/Australian writer and poet (died 1926)William Fleming Stevenson Hymns for the Church and Home https://books.google.com/books?id=hykPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PT85 1873 H. S. King 85 December 13 – Catharine H. T. Avery, American author, editor, and educator (died 1911) December 27 – Lisa Anne Fletcher, American poet and correspondent (died 1905) unknown dates Mrs. Lovett Cameron (Caroline "Emily" Sharp), English romantic novelist (died 1921)John Sutherland The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction https://books.google.com/books?id=X2KuBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA99 13 October 2014 Routledge 978-1-317-86333-5 99 Evelyn Whitaker, English children's writer (died 1929) Deaths January 4 – Maria Hack, English educational writer (born 1777) January 27 – Charles Nodier, French novelist (born 1780)Nodier, Charles 19 731 February 11 – Tamenaga Shunsui, Japanese novelist (born 1790) February 12 – Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek, Czech dramatist (born 1783) May 2 – William Thomas Beckford, English novelist and travel writer (born 1760) June 11 – Urban Jarnik, Slovene poet and historian (born 1784) June 15 – Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (born 1777) July 11 – Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet and philosopher (born 1800) August 14 – Henry Cary, Gibraltar-born Irish author and translator (born 1772) September 18 – John Sterling, Scottish novelist and poet (born 1806) October 28 – Sándor Kisfaludy, Hungarian poet and dramatist (born 1772)Albert Tezla Hungarian Authors; a Bibliographical Handbook https://books.google.com/books?id=aOK0vb9WwaIC&pg=PA322 1970 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-42650-4 322 November 4 – Barbara Hofland, English children's and schoolbook author (born 1770) November 21 – Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (born 1769) December 27 – John Caradja, Greek Prince of Wallachia, translator and theatrical promoter (asthma, born 1754) Awards Chancellor's Gold Medal – Edward Bickersteth, "The Tower of London"University of Cambridge A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge https://books.google.com/books?id=Sqj72fdDtCoC&pg=PP15 1859 Macmillan 15, 247 Newdigate Prize – Evgeny Baratynsky References 30em External links Published 1844 Books at Goodreads 1844 Books at Goodreads