1849 in literature

1849 in literature

The year 1849 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*"La Tribune des Peuples", a pan-European romantic nationalist periodical, is published between March and November by Adam Mickiewicz.
*"Who's Who" is published for the first time.
*Honoré de Balzac travels to Poland to meet Eveline Hanska, whom he will marry shortly before his death.
* Philip Massinger's play "Believe as You List" receives its first publication, 218 years after its theatrical premier.
* Thomas De Quincey's "The English Mail-Coach" appears in the October and December issues of Blackwood's Magazine.
*November 14 - A public festival is held in Denmark to celebrate the 70th birthday of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger.

New books

*William Harrison Ainsworth - "The Lancashire Witches"
*Charlotte Brontë - "Shirley"
*François-René de Chateaubriand - "Memoirs From Beyond the Grave"
*Charles Dickens - "David Copperfield"
*Fyodor Dostoevsky - "Netochka Nezvanova"
*Catherine Gore - "The Diamond and the Pearl"
*Charles Kingsley - "Alton Locke"
*Herman Melville
**"Mardi"
**"Redburn"
*Mayne Reid - "The Rifle Rangers"
*G. W. M. Reynolds - "The Bronze Statue"
*George Sand - "Little Fadette"
*James Anthony Froude - "The Nemesis of Faith"

New drama

*Christian Friedrich Hebbel - "Der Rubin"
*Gaspar Núñez de Arce - "Amor y Orgullo"
*Eugène Scribe - "Adrienne Lecouvreur"

Poetry

*Matthew Arnold - "The Strayed Reveller"
*Edgar Allan Poe - "Annabel Lee", "Eldorado", "The Bells"

Non-fiction

*John Mitchell Kemble - "History of the Saxons in England"
*Francis Parkman - "The Oregon Trail"
*John Ruskin - "The Seven Lamps of Architecture"
*Henry David Thoreau - "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"
*George Ticknor - "A History of Spanish Literature"

Births

*January 22 - August Strindberg, Swedish dramatist (d. 1912)
*February 18 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian novelist (d. 1906)
*July 22 - Emma Lazarus, poet
*August 23 - William Henley, British poet (d. 1903)
*November 24 - Frances Hodgson Burnett, children's writer (d. 1924)

Deaths

*January 6 - Hartley Coleridge, poet and critic
*February 8 - France Prešeren, poet
*May 22 - Maria Edgeworth, novelist
*May 28 - Anne Brontë, novelist and poet
*July 7 - Goffredo Mameli, poet
*July 25 - James Kenney, dramatist
*October 7 - Edgar Allan Poe, poet, short story writer, and critic

Awards

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