1846 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1846.
Events
- January 3 â The American author Edgar Allan Poe issues the final edition of the Broadway Journal, a journal he owned for just a few months.[1]
- January 15 â Fyodor Dostoevsky's first original novel, Poor Folk (ÐеднÑе лÑди, Bednye Lyudi), is published in the St. Petersburg Collection.
- January 21 â 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.
- April
- Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales are first translated into English, beginning with "The Little Mermaid" in Bentley's Miscellany.
- Poe's essay "The Philosophy of Composition" is published in Graham's Magazine.[2]
- c. May 22 â The Brontë sisters' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, appears in London.[3] It sells only two copies in the first year.[4]
- June 27 â Charlotte Brontë completes the manuscript of her novel The Professor. It is offered to several publishers during the year but rejected.[4]
- August 15 â The Scott Monument to Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh (Scotland) is inaugurated.[5]
- September 12 â The poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, and depart for the continent a week later.[6]
- October 1 â Serial publication of Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son begins.[7]
- November 21 â The String of Pearls: a Romance, probably written by James Malcolm Rymer, begins serialization in Britain. This is the first literary appearance of Sweeney Todd.[8]
- unknown dates
- Mary Howitt's Wonderful Stories for Children is the first English translation of works by Hans Christian Andersen to be published in book format.[9]
- Isaac D. Baker and Charles Scribner form the New York City publisher Baker & Scribner, predecessor of Charles Scribner's Sons.
New books
Fiction
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton â The Children of the Night
- James Fenimore Cooper â The Redskins
- Charles Dickens â The Battle of Life (novella)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Double: A Petersburg Poem («Ðвойник», Dvoynik (novella))
- Poor Folk («ÐеднÑе лÑди», Bednye Lyudi)[10]
- Alexandre Dumas, père
- Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge (The Knight of the Maison-Rouge: A Novel of Marie Antoinette)[11]
- The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, serialization concluded; first English translation)
- Thomas Dunn English â MDCCCXLII, or The Power of the "S. F"
- Dmitry Grigorovich â The Village («ÐеÑевнÑ», Derevnya)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne â Mosses from an Old Manse
- Douglas Jerrold
- The Chronicles of Clovernook
- Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures
- Mór Jókai â Weekdays (Hétköznapok)
- James Sheridan Knowles â Fortescue
- Frederick Marryat â The Privateersman
- Herman Melville â Typee
- George Sand â La Mare au Diable (The Devil's Pond)
Children
- Anne Knight â School-Room Lyrics
- Hannah and Mary Townsend â The Anti-Slavery Alphabet
Drama
- Paul Bocage â Ãchec et mat
- Carolina Coronado â El cuadro de la esperanza
- Gustav Freytag â Die Valentine
- Eugène Marin Labiche and Auguste Lefranc â Frisette
- George William Lovell
- Martins Pena â first performances
- A Barriga do Meu Tio
- Os Ciúmes de um Pedestre, ou O TerrÃvel Capitão do Mato
- As Desgraças de uma Criança
- Os Meirinhos
- Um Segredo de Estado
- O Usurário
- Joseph Isidore Samson â La Famille poisson
Poetry
- Gottfried Keller â Gedichte (Poems)
- Edward Lear â Book of Nonsense[12]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow â The Belfry of Bruges
Non-fiction
- Selim Aga â Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, A Native of Central Africa
- Mary Anne Atwood (as ÎÏ Î¿Ï ÎαθοÏ) â Early Magnetism in its Higher Relations to Humanity
- Curtis H. Cavender (as H.C. Decanver) â Catalogue of Works in Refutation of Methodism
- Charles Dickens â Pictures from Italy
- F. W. Fairholt â Costume in England
- George Grote â A History of Greece (publication begins)
- George W. Johnson â A Dictionary of Gardening
- Søren Kierkegaard â Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift til de philosophiske Smuler)
- David Strauss â The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined, translated by George Eliot from Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet
- Theodor Waitz â Grundlegung der Psychologie (Foundation of Psychology)
- William Whewell â Elements of Morality
Births
- March 17 â Kate Greenaway, English book illustrator and writer (died 1901)[13]
- March 20 â Rebecca Richardson Joslin, American non-fiction writer (died 1934)
- March 25 â Helen Zimmern, German-born English writer and translator (died 1934)
- April 4 â Comte de Lautreamont (pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse), Uruguayan-born French poet and writer (died 1870)
- April 24 â Marcus Clarke, Australian novelist and poet (died 1881)[14]
- May 5 â Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish novelist (died 1916)
- May 25 â Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (died 1900)
- June 3 â Estelle Mendell Amory, American educator and author (died 1923)
- June 30 â Frances Margaret Milne, Irish-born American author and librarian (died 1910)
- July 5 â Christian Reid (pen name of Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan), American author (died 1920)
- August 2 â Lucy Clifford (née Lucy Lane), English novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (died 1929)
- August 5
- Louise Manning Hodgkins, American educator, author, and editor (died 1935)
- Alvilde Prydz, Norwegian novelist (died 1922)[15]
- September 3 â Emma Shaw Colcleugh, American author (died 1940)
- October 1 â John Cadvan Davies, Welsh poet and Wesleyan Methodist minister (died 1923)[16]
- October 21 â Edmondo De Amicis, Italian novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer (died 1908)
- unknown date â Mary Foot Seymour, American businesswoman and writer (died 1893)[17]
Deaths
- January 6 â Lewis Goldsmith, Anglo-French journalist (born c. 1763)
- February 9 â Henry Gally Knight, English writer and traveler (born 1786)
- March 10 â Harriette Wilson, English memoirist (born 1786)[18]
- June 24 â Jan Frans Willems, Flemish poet and political activist (born 1793)
- July 12 â Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, English novelist (born 1790)
- September 4 â Victor-Joseph Ãtienne de Jouy, French dramatist (born 1764)[19]
- November 23 â George Darley, Irish poet, novelist, and critic (born 1795)
- December 13 â Pasquale Galluppi, Italian philosopher (born 1770)
Awards
- Chancellor's Gold Medal â Edward Henry Bickersteth
- Newdigate Prize â G. O. Morgan[20]