Overview of the events of 1846 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1846 .
Events
One of the year's least successful publications
January 3 – American author Edgar Allan Poe prints on this day the final edition of the Broadway Journal , a journal he owned for only a few months. Poe also publishes "The Philosophy of Composition ".
January 15 – Fyodor Dostoevsky 's first original novel, Poor Folk (Бедные люди, Bednye Lyudi ), is published in the St. Petersburg Collection .
January 21 – The Daily News , edited by Charles Dickens , first appears in London . After 17 issues Dickens hands over as editor to his friend John Forster . It continues until 1930.
c. May 22 – The Brontë sisters ' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell , appears in London.[1] It sells just two copies in the first year.[2]
June 27 – Charlotte Brontë completes the original manuscript of her novel The Professor . It is offered to several publishers during the year but rejected.[2]
August 15 – The Scott Monument to Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh (Scotland) is inaugurated.[3]
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 begins.
November 21 – The String of Pearls : a Romance , probably written by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest , begins serialization in Britain. This is the first literary appearance of Sweeney Todd .
Mary Howitt's Wonderful Stories for Children is the first English translation of works by Hans Christian Andersen to be published in book format.
Isaac D. Baker and Charles Scribner form the New York City publisher Baker & Scribner, predecessor of Charles Scribner's Sons .
New books
Fiction
Children
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
March 17 – Kate Greenaway , English book illustrator and writer (died 1901 )
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 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
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 )
Deaths
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 )[5]
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 )[6]
November 23 – George Darley , Irish poet, novelist, and critic (born 1795 )
December 13 – Pasquale Galluppi , Italian philosopher (born 1770 )
Awards
References
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6 .
^ a b Alexander, Christine; Smith, Margaret (2006). The Oxford Companion to the Brontës . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866218-1 .
^ "Scott Monument" . AboutBritai n . Archived from the original on 2 May 2013. Retrieved 2010-11-13 .
^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 .
^ Frances Wilson, 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.