1846 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

• First publication of the Daily News, edited by Charles Dickens.

[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
  • The Chevalier of the Maison Rouge
  • La Dame de Montsoreau
  • Memoirs of a Physician
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - Poor People
• 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

• 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
• 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

[edit] Awards