1839 in literature

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The year 1839 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.

Events

May 31 - Important British constitutional case of Stockdale v Hansard is launched when publisher John Joseph Stockdale sues for libel after John Roberton's pseudo-medical work On Diseases of the Generative System (1811) is declared in a parliamentary report to be indecent.^[1]
Washington Irving begins contributing regularly to The Knickerbocker, 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.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance by the 'Pearl Poet', is first published complete, in Syr Gawayne: a collection of ancient romance-poems by Scottish and and English authors relating to that celebrated knight of the Round Table edited by Frederic Madden for the Bannatyne Club.^[2]^[3]
George Bell establishes the London publisher George Bell & Sons as an educational bookseller in Bouverie Street.
W. Harrison Ainsworth takes over editorship of Bentley's Miscellany from Charles Dickens.

Louis Blanc - L'Organisation du Travail
Charles Darwin - The Voyage of the Beagle
Mrs William Ellis - The Women of England: their social duties and domestic habits
Michael Faraday - Experimental Researches in Electricity
George W. M. Reynolds - Grace Darling; or, the Heroine of the Ferne Islands
Jared Sparks - Life of Washington
John Tallis - Tallis Directory

January 7 - Ouida, English novelist (died 1908)
February 1 - James Herne, American dramatist (died 1901)
February 22 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (died 1906)
March 16 - Sully Prudhomme, French poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1907)
April 18 - Henry Kendall, Australian poet (died 1882)
June 21 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian poet and novelist (died 1908)
August 4 - Walter Pater, English writer (died 1894)
August 9 - Gaston Paris, French writer and scholar (died 1903)
September 10 - Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (died 1914)
November 29 - Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian dramatist (died 1889)

April 11 - John Galt, Scottish novelist (born 1779)
April 22 - Thomas Haynes Bayly, poet, songwriter and dramatist (born 1797)
May 9 - Joseph Fiévée, French journalist, novelist, essayist and playwright (born 1767)
May 17 - Archibald Alison, Scottish author (born 1757)
May 21 - José María Heredia y Campuzano, Cuban poet (born 1803)
June 26 - Winifred Gales, novelist and memoirist (born 1761)
August 3 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist and translator (born 1764)
September 4 - Hermann Olshausen, German theologian (born 1796)
September 28 - William Dunlap, American dramatist (born 1766)
October 22 - Alexander Odoevsky, Russian poet (born 1802)

↑ Loveland, Ian (2000). Political Libels: A Comparative Study. Oxford: Hart Publishing. pp. 21–22. ISBN 1-84113-115-6.
↑ Turville-Petre, Thorlac (1977). The Alliterative Revival. Woodbridge: Brewer. pp. 126–129. ISBN 0-85991-019-9.
↑ Burrow, J. A. (1971). Ricardian Poetry. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 4–5. ISBN 0-7100-7031-4.
↑ Birley, Robert (1962). "Philip James Bailey, Festus". Sunk Without Trace: some forgotten masterpieces reconsidered. London: Rupert Hart-Davis. pp. 172–208.

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