1846 in literature
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The year 1846 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] 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".
[edit] New books
- Honoré de Balzac - Cousin Bette
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Children of the Night
- James Fenimore Cooper - The Redskins
- Alexandre Dumas, père
- 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
[edit] New drama
- Carolina Coronado - El cuadro de la esperanza
[edit] Poetry
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Double: A Petersburg Poem
- Gottfried Keller - Gedichte
- Edward Lear - Book of Nonsense
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Belfry of Bruges
[edit] 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
[edit] Births
- April 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer (+ 1870)
- May 5 - Henryk Sienkiewicz Polish novelist (+ 1916)
- May 25 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet
[edit] 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
