1846 in literature

1846 in literature

The year 1846 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*First publication of the "Daily News", edited by Charles Dickens.
*American author Edgar Allan Poe prints the final edition of the "Broadway Journal", a journal he owned for only a few months, with the final issue dated January 3, 1846. Poe also publishes "The Philosophy of Composition".

New books

*Honoré de Balzac - "Cousin Bette"
*Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - "The Children of the Night"
*James Fenimore Cooper - "The Redskins"
*Alexandre Dumas, père
**"The Chevalier of the Maison Rouge"
**"La Dame de Montsoreau"
**"Memoirs of a Physician"
*József Eötvös - "The Village Notary"
*Nathaniel Hawthorne - "Mosses from an Old Manse"
*Mór Jókai - "Weekdays"
*Frederick Marryat - "The Privateersman"
*Herman Melville - "Typee"
*George Sand - "The Devil's Pond"

New drama

*Carolina Coronado - "El cuadro de la esperanza"

Poetry

*Fyodor Dostoevsky - ""
*Gottfried Keller - "Gedichte"
*Edward Lear - "Book of Nonsense"
*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - "The Belfry of Bruges"

Non-fiction

*Hans Christian Andersen - "Fairy Tale of My Life" (autobiography)
*Charles Dickens - "Pictures from Italy"
*Søren Kierkegaard - "Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments"
*Theodor Waitz - "Grundlegung der Psychologie (Foundation of Psychology)"
*William Whewell - "Elements of Morality"

Births

* April 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer (+ 1870)
* May 5 - Henryk Sienkiewicz Polish novelist (+ 1916)
* May 25 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet

Deaths

*January 6 - Lewis Goldsmith, journalist
*February 9 - Henry Gally Knight, author of "Oriental tales"
*July 12 - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, novelist
*December 13 - Pasquale Galluppi, philosopher
*"date unknown" - Harriette Wilson, memoirist

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