1846 in literature

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The year 1846 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.

Events

January 3 – 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 this day. Poe also publishes "The Philosophy of Composition".
January 21 – First publication of The Daily News, edited by Charles Dickens, in London. After 17 issues Dickens hands over the editorship to his friend John Forster. It continues until 1930.
c. May 22 – The Brontë sisters' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, is issued in London.^[1] It sells just two copies in the first year.^[2]
June 27 – Charlotte Brontë completes the original manuscript of her novel The Professor; it is offered to several publishers this year but rejected.^[2]
September 12 – Poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, departing for the continent a week later.
October 1 – Serial publication of Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son begins.
November 21 – The String of Pearls: a Romance, probably written by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest, begins serialization in Britain, the first literary appearance of Sweeney Todd.
Mary Howitt's Wonderful Stories for Children is the first English translation of works by Hans Christian Andersen.
Isaac D. Baker and Charles Scribner form the New York City publisher Baker & Scribner, predecessor of Charles Scribner's Sons.

Hans Christian Andersen – Fairy Tale of My Life (autobiography)
Charles Dickens – Pictures from Italy
George Grote – A History of Greece (publication begins)
Søren Kierkegaard – Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
David Strauss – The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined, translated by George Eliot from Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet
Theodor Waitz – Grundlegung der Psychologie (Foundation of Psychology)
William Whewell – Elements of Morality

April 4 – Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer (died 1870)
April 24 – Marcus Clarke, Australian novelist and poet (died 1881)
May 5 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish novelist (died 1916)
May 25 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (died 1900)
August 5 – Alvilde Prydz, Norwegian novelist (died 1922)
October 21 – Edmondo De Amicis, Italian novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer (died 1908)

↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Alexander, Christine; Smith, Margaret (2006). The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866218-1.
↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Frances Wilson, The Courtesan's Revenge: The Life of Harriette Wilson, the Woman Who Blackmailed the King
↑ Pichois, Claude. "Pour une biographie d'Étienne Jouy", Revue des sciences humaines (April–June 1965:227–252; given a synopsis in Furman, N., La Revue Des Deux Mondes Et Le Romantisme (1831–1848) 1974:12 note 5.

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