1846 in literature

Events

• January 3 – The American author Edgar Allan Poe issues the final edition of the Broadway Journal, a journal he owned for just a few months.
• 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.
• 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.
• c. May 22 – The Brontë sisters' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, appears in London. It sells only two copies in the first year.
• June 27 – Charlotte Brontë completes the manuscript of her novel The Professor. It is offered to several publishers during the year but rejected.
• August 15 – The Scott Monument to Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh (Scotland) is inaugurated.
• 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, begins serialization in Britain. This is the first literary appearance of Sweeney Todd.
• 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.
  • 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 – The Children of the Night
• James Fenimore Cooper – The Redskins
• Charles Dickens – The Battle of Life (novella)
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Double: A Petersburg Poem («Двойник», Dvoynik (novella))
  • Poor Folk («Бедные люди», Bednye Lyudi)
• Alexandre Dumas, père
  • Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge (The Knight of the Maison-Rouge: A Novel of Marie Antoinette)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, serialization concluded; first English translation)
• Thomas Dunn English – MDCCCXLII, or The Power of the "S. F"
• Dmitry Grigorovich – The Village («Деревня», Derevnya)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne – Mosses from an Old Manse
• Douglas Jerrold
  • The Chronicles of Clovernook
  • Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures
• Mór Jókai – Weekdays (Hétköznapok)
• James Sheridan Knowles – Fortescue
• Frederick Marryat – The Privateersman
• Herman Melville – Typee
• George Sand – La Mare au Diable (The Devil's Pond)

Children

• Anne Knight – School-Room Lyrics
• Hannah and Mary Townsend – The Anti-Slavery Alphabet

Drama

• Paul Bocage – Échec et mat
• Carolina Coronado – El cuadro de la esperanza
• Gustav Freytag – Die Valentine
• Eugène Marin Labiche and Auguste Lefranc – Frisette
• George William Lovell
  • Look Before You Leap
  • The Wife's Secret
• Martins Pena – first performances
  • A Barriga do Meu Tio
  • Os Ciúmes de um Pedestre, ou O Terrível Capitão do Mato
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  • Os Meirinhos
  • Um Segredo de Estado
  • O Usurário
• Joseph Isidore Samson – La Famille poisson

Poetry

• Gottfried Keller – Gedichte (Poems)
• Edward Lear – Book of Nonsense
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – The Belfry of Bruges

Non-fiction

• Selim Aga – Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, A Native of Central Africa
• Mary Anne Atwood (as Θυος Μαθος) – Early Magnetism in its Higher Relations to Humanity
• Curtis H. Cavender (as H.C. Decanver) – Catalogue of Works in Refutation of Methodism
• Charles Dickens – Pictures from Italy
• F. W. Fairholt – Costume in England
• George Grote – A History of Greece (publication begins)
• George W. Johnson – A Dictionary of Gardening
• Søren Kierkegaard – Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift til de philosophiske Smuler)
• David Strauss – The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined, translated by George Eliot from Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet
• Theodor Waitz – Grundlegung der Psychologie (Foundation of Psychology)
• William Whewell – Elements of Morality

Births

• 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
  • Louise Manning Hodgkins, American educator, author, and editor (died 1935)
  • Alvilde Prydz, Norwegian novelist (died 1922)
• September 3 – Emma Shaw Colcleugh, American author (died 1940)
• October 1 – John Cadvan Davies, Welsh poet and Wesleyan Methodist minister (died 1923)
• 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)
• 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)
• November 23 – George Darley, Irish poet, novelist, and critic (born 1795)
• December 13 – Pasquale Galluppi, Italian philosopher (born 1770)

Awards

• Chancellor's Gold Medal – Edward Henry Bickersteth
• Newdigate Prize – G. O. Morgan

References

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