1850 in literature

1850 in literature

The year 1850 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) named Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, succeeding William Wordsworth.
*Periodical "Household Words" begins publication
*Henrik Ibsen's second play, "The Burial Mound", is produced

New books

*Wilkie Collins - "Antonina"
*Charles Dickens - "David Copperfield"
*Alexandre Dumas, fils - "Tristan le Roux"
*Alexandre Dumas, père - "The Black Tulip"
*Nathaniel Hawthorne - "The Scarlet Letter"
*Caroline Lee Hentz
**"Linda"
**"Rena, the Snowbird"
*Herman Melville - "White-Jacket"
*Catharine Maria Sedgwick - "Tales of City Life"
*Frank Smedley - "Frank Fairleigh"
*Anthony Trollope - "La Vendée"
*Susan Warner - "The Wide, Wide World"

New drama

*Christian Friedrich Hebbel - "Herodes and Mariamne"
*Henrik Ibsen - "Catilina" (Ibsen's first play, not performed until 1881)
*Otto Ludwig - "Der Erbförster"
*Ivan Turgenev - "A Month in the Country"

Poetry

*Elizabeth Barrett Browning - "Sonnets from the Portuguese"

Non-fiction

*Ivar Aasen - "Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects"
*Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Representative Men"
*Friedrich Engels - "The Peasant War in Germany"
*Alexander Herzen - "From Another Shore"
*Washington Irving - "Mahomet and His Successors"

Births

*January 14 - Pierre Loti, novelist
* January 15 - Mihai Eminescu, poet
* June 27 - Lafcadio Hearn, writer
* June 27 - Ivan Vazov, poet, novelist and playwright
* August 5 - Guy de Maupassant, writer
* September 2 - Eugene Field, poet and essayist
* November 5 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet and journalist
* November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist

Deaths

* January 20 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, poet and dramatist
*April 7 - William Lisle Bowles, poet and critic
* April 23 - William Wordsworth, poet
* May 31 - Giuseppe Giusti, poet
*July 14 - August Neander, theologian
* July 19 - Sarah Margaret Fuller, writer
* August 18 - Honoré de Balzac, novelist
* August 22 - Nikolaus Lenau, poet
*November 4 - Gustav Schwab, author
* December 24 - Frédéric Bastiat, philosopher and author

Awards

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