1839 in literature
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See also: 1838 in literature, other events of 1839, 1840 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
[edit] 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
[edit] New drama
- Felicia Hemans - De Chatillon
[edit] Poetry
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -Hyperion; Voices of the Night
[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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
