1845 in literature

1845 in literature

The year 1845 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* Robert Browning begins his correspondence with his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett.
*Charlotte Cushman plays Romeo to her sister Susan's Juliet, in a production of "Romeo and Juliet" at the Haymarket Theatre.
*The essays in Thomas de Quincey's "Suspiria de Profundis" appear in Blackwood's Magazine in the Spring and Summer.

New books

*James Fenimore Cooper
**"The Chainbearer"
**"Satanstoe"
*Charles Dickens - "The Cricket on the Hearth"
*Benjamin Disraeli - "Sybil"
*Fyodor Dostoevsky - "Poor Folk"
*Alexandre Dumas, père
**"The Corsican Brothers"
**"Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge"
**"La Reine Margot"
**"The Regent's Daughter"
**"Twenty Years After"
*Catherine Gore - ""
*Nathaniel Hawthorne - "P.'s Correspondence"
*Geraldine Jewsbury - "Zoe, A History of Two Lives"
*Joaquim Manuel de Macedo - "O moço loiro"
*Frederick Marryat - "The Mission, or Scenes in Africa"
*Prosper Mérimée - "Carmen"
*Robert Smith Surtees - "Hillingdon Hall"

New drama

*Henrik Hertz - "King René's Daughter"

Poetry

*Edgar Allan Poe - "The Raven"

Non-fiction

*Eliza Acton - "Modern Cookery for Private Families"
*Thomas Carlyle - "Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches"
*Frederick Douglass - "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave"
*"Encyclopaedia Metropolitana"
*Friedrich Engels - "The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844"
*Søren Kierkegaard - "Stages on Life's Way"
*Domingo Sarmiento - "Facundo"
*Max Stirner - "Der Einzige und sein Eigentum"

Births

*April 24 - Carl Spitteler, poet (+ 1924)
*May 17 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (+ 1902)
*July 18 - Tristan Corbière, poet (+ 1875)
*October 14 - Olindo Guerrini, poet (+ 1916)
*"date unknown" - Alexander Anderson, poet
*"date unknown" - Amy Dillwyn, novelist (+ 1935)

Deaths

* May 3 - Thomas Hood, poet

Awards

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