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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1846.

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.^[1]
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 .^[2]
c. May 22 – 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 – Charlotte Brontë completes the manuscript of her novel The Professor . It is offered to several publishers during the year but rejected.^[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 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.
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.^[6]
- Isaac D. Baker and Charles Scribner form the New York City publisher Baker & Scribner, predecessor of Charles Scribner's Sons.

New books

Fiction

Honoré de Balzac – Cousin Bette (La Cousine Bette)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Children of the Night
James Fenimore Cooper – The Redskins
Charles Dickens
- The Battle of Life (novella)
- Dombey and Son (serialization begins)
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)
- La Dame de Montsoreau
- Mémoires d'un médecin: Joseph Balsamo ("Memoirs of a Physician: vol. 1, Joseph Balsamo")
Thomas Dunn English – MDCCCXLII, or The Power of the "S. F"
Dmitry Grigorovich – The Village (Деревня, Derevnya)
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Mosses from an Old Manse
Mór Jókai – Weekdays (Hétköznapok)
James Sheridan Knowles – Fortescue
Frederick Marryat – The Privateersman
Herman Melville – Typee
George Sand – La Mare au diable [ fr ] (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
- As Desgraças de uma Criança [ pt ]
- Os Meirinhos
- Um Segredo de Estado
- O Usurário
Joseph Isidore Samson – La Famille poisson

Poetry

Gottfried Keller – Gedichte (Poems)
Edward Lear – Book of Nonsense^[7]
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)^[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]

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)^[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)

Awards

Chancellor's Gold Medal – Edward Henry Bickersteth
Newdigate Prize – G. O. Morgan^[12]

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Victorian literature is English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). The 19th century is considered by some to be the Golden Age of English Literature, especially for British novels. It was in the Victorian era that the novel became the leading literary genre in English. English writing from this era reflects the major transformations in most aspects of English life, from scientific, economic, and technological advances to changes in class structures and the role of religion in society. The number of new novels published each year increased from 100 at the start of the period to 1000 by the end of it. Famous novelists from this period include Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, the three Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Rudyard Kipling.

References

↑ Arthur Hobson Quinn (25 November 1997). Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. JHU Press. p. 494. ISBN 978-0-8018-5730-0.
↑ Dawn B. Sova (2007). Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. Infobase Publishing. p. 426. ISBN 978-1-4381-0842-1.
↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
1 2 Alexander, Christine; Smith, Margaret (2006). The Oxford Companion to the Brontës . Oxford University Press. 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. Oxford University Press. p. 109. 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. Yorkin Publications. p. 168. 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. 1868. p. 6.

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[Quinn1997-1] Arthur Hobson Quinn (25 November 1997). Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. JHU Press. p. 494. ISBN 978-0-8018-5730-0.

[2] Dawn B. Sova (2007). Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. Infobase Publishing. p. 426. ISBN 978-1-4381-0842-1.

[COCEL-3] Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.

[OCB-4] 1 2 Alexander, Christine; Smith, Margaret (2006). The Oxford Companion to the Brontës . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866218-1.

[5] "Scott Monument". AboutBritain. Archived from the original on 31 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-13.

[6] Peter France (2000). The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation. Oxford University Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-19-818359-4.

[7] Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

[8] Edward Tegla Davies. "Davies, John Cadvan". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 13 October 2020.

[9] Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer (2002). Women in World History: Schu-Sui. Yorkin Publications. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-7876-4073-6.

[10] Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan's Revenge: The Life of Harriette Wilson, the Woman Who Blackmailed the King.

[11] 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.

[12] College rhymes, contributed by members of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. 1868. p. 6.

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