1843 in literature

1843 in literature

The year 1843 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* William Wordsworth (1770-1850) becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

New books

*William Harrison Ainsworth - "Windsor Castle"
*Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - "The Last of the Barons"
*James Fenimore Cooper - "Le Mouchoir; an Autobiographical Romance"
*Charles Dickens
**"A Christmas Carol"
**"Martin Chuzzlewit"
*Alexandre Dumas, père - "Georges"
*Catherine Gore - "The Banker's Wife"
*Léon Gozlan - "Aristide Froissart"
*Victor Hugo - "Les Burgraves"
*Søren Kierkegaard - "Diary of a Seducer" (a literary novel included in "Either/Or")
*Frederick Marryat - "Monsieur Violet"
*Edgar Allan Poe - "The Gold-Bug" (short story)
*Eugène Sue - "The Mysteries of Paris"
*Robert Smith Surtees - "Handley Cross"
*Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - "Perils of the Nation"

New drama

*Eusebio Asquerino - "Casada, vírgen y mártir"
*Nikolai Gogol - "The Gamblers"
*W. T. Moncrieff - "The Scamps of London"

Poetry

*Thomas Hood - "Song of the Shirt"
*Richard Henry Horne - "Orion"
*Edgar Allan Poe - "The Conqueror Worm"
*Alfred Tennyson - "Morte d'Arthur"

Non-fiction

*Paul Rudolf von Bilguer - "Handbuch des Schachspiels (Handbook of Chess)"
*Thomas Carlyle - "Past and Present"
*John Stuart Mill - "A System of Logic"
*William H. Prescott - "History of the Conquest of Mexico"
*Johannes de Silentio - "Fear and Trembling (Frygt og Bæven)"

Births

*January 14 - Hans Forssell, historian (+ 1901)
*April 15 - Henry James, writer (+ 1916)
*May 3 - Edward Dowden, poet and critic (+ 1913)
*July 5 - Mandell Creighton, historian (+ 1901)
*December 21 - Thomas Bracken, poet (+ 1898)
*December 29 - Carmen Sylva (+ 1916)

Deaths

*January 11 - Francis Scott Key, poet
*March 21 - Robert Southey, poet
*May 19 - Charles James Apperley ("Nimrod"), sports writer
*May 28 - Noah Webster, lexicographer
*June 6 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist
*July 9 - Karoline Pichler, novelist
*July 31 - William Thomas Lowndes, bibliographer
*August 10 - Jakob Friedrich Fries, philosopher
*October 21 - William Pinnock, publisher, bookseller and author
*December 11 - Casimir Delavigne, poet and dramatist
*"date unknown" - John Murray, publisher

Awards

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