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Overview of the events of 1846 in literature
Overview of the events of 1846 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1846 .
One of the year's least successful publications January 3 – The American author Edgar Allan Poe issues the final edition of the Broadway Journal [1] January 15 – Fyodor Dostoevsky 's first original novel, Poor Folk Bednye Lyudi ), is published in the St. Petersburg Collection .January 21 – The Daily News Charles Dickens , first appears in London . After 17 issues Dickens hands over as editor to his friend John Forster . It continues until 1930.April
c. May 22 – The Brontë sisters ' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell [3] [4]
June 27 – Charlotte Brontë completes the manuscript of her novel The Professor [4] August 15 – The Scott Monument to Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh (Scotland) is inaugurated.[5] 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.October 1 – Serial publication of Charles Dickens 's Dombey and Son November 21 – The String of Pearls : a RomanceJames Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest , begins serialization in Britain. This is the first literary appearance of Sweeney Todd .unknown dates
New books [ edit ] Fiction [ edit ] Children [ edit ] Non-fiction [ edit ] March 17 – Kate Greenaway , English book illustrator and writer (died 1901 )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 )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
September 3 – Emma Shaw Colcleugh , American author (died 1940 )October 1 – John Cadvan Davies , Welsh poet and Wesleyan Methodist minister (died 1923 )[8] 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 )[9] 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 )[10] 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 )[11] November 23 – George Darley , Irish poet, novelist, and critic (born 1795 )December 13 – Pasquale Galluppi , Italian philosopher (born 1770 )References [ edit ]
^ Arthur Hobson Quinn (25 November 1997). Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography ISBN 978-0-8018-5730-0 ^ Dawn B. Sova (2007). Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work ISBN 978-1-4381-0842-1 ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature ISBN 0-19-860634-6 ^ a b Alexander, Christine; Smith, Margaret (2006). The Oxford Companion to the Brontës ISBN 978-0-19-866218-1 ^ "Scott Monument" . AboutBritain . Archived from the original on 31 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-13 .^ Peter France (2000). The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation ISBN 978-0-19-818359-4 ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 ^ Edward Tegla Davies . "Davies, John Cadvan" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales . Retrieved 13 October 2020 .^ Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer (2002). Women in World History: Schu-Sui ISBN 978-0-7876-4073-6 ^ Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan's Revenge: The Life of Harriette Wilson, the Woman Who Blackmailed the King . ^ 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.
^ College rhymes, contributed by members of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge
