1839 in literature

1839 in literature

The year 1839 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Washington Irving begins contributing regularly to Knickerbocker magazine, and will publish thirty new pieces in the magazine — including "The Creole Village," in which he will coin the phrase "the almighty dollar" — through March 1841.
*John Roberton's pseudo-medical work "On Diseases of the Generative System" (1811) is declared to be indecent and becomes the centre of the important British constitutional case of "Stockdale v. Hansard".

New books

*William Harrison Ainsworth - "Jack Sheppard"
*Charles Dickens - "Nicholas Nickleby"
*Frederick Marryat
**"Diary in America"
**"The Phantom Ship"
*Harriet Martineau - "Deerbrook"
*Edgar Allan Poe - "The Fall of the House of Usher"
*Jules Sandeau - "Marianna"
*Stendhal - "The Charterhouse of Parma"
*Philip Meadows Taylor - "Confessions of a Thug"

New drama

*Felicia Hemans - "De Chatillon"

Poetry

*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -"Hyperion"; "Voices of the Night"

Non-fiction

*Louis Blanc — "L'Organisation du Travail"
*Charles Darwin - "The Voyage of the Beagle"
*George W. M. Reynolds - "Grace Darling; or, the Heroine of the Ferne Islands
*Jared Sparks — "Life of Washington"
*John Tallis — "Tallis Directory"

Births

*January 7 - Ouida, novelist (+ 1908)
*February 1 - James Herne, dramatist (+ 1901)
* February 22 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (+ 1906)
* April 18 - Henry Kendall, Australian poet (+ 1882)
*June 21 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian poet and novelist (+ 1909)
* August 4 - Walter Horatio Pater, English writer (+ 1894)
*August 9 - Gaston Paris, philologist (+ 1903)
*August 25 - Bret Harte (+ 1902)
*September 10 - Charles Peirce, philosopher (+ 1914)
*November 29 - Ludwig Anzengruber, dramatist (+ 1889)

Deaths

*April 11 - John Galt, novelist
*May 17 - Archibald Alison (Scottish author)
*May 21 - José María Heredia y Campuzano, Cuban poet
*September 4 - Hermann Olshausen, theologian

Awards

*Newdigate prize - John Ruskin


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