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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1846.

Events

One of the year's least successful publications

January 3 – The American author Edgar Allan Poe issues the final edition of the Broadway Journal, a journal he owned for just a few months.^[1]
January 15 – Fyodor Dostoevsky's first original novel, Poor Folk (Бедные люди, Bednye Lyudi), is published in the St. Petersburg Collection.
January 21 – The Daily News, edited by Charles Dickens, first appears in London. After 17 issues Dickens hands over as editor to his friend John Forster. It continues until 1930.
April
- Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales are first translated into English, beginning with "The Little Mermaid" in Bentley's Miscellany.
- Poe's essay "The Philosophy of Composition" is published in Graham's Magazine.^[2]
c. May 22 – The Brontë sisters' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, appears in London.^[3] It sells only two copies in the first year.^[4]
June 27 – Charlotte Brontë completes the manuscript of her novel The Professor. It is offered to several publishers during the year but rejected.^[4]
August 15 – The Scott Monument to Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh (Scotland) is inaugurated.^[5]
September 12 – The poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, and depart for the continent a week later.^[6]
October 1 – Serial publication of Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son begins.^[7]
November 21 – The String of Pearls: a Romance, probably written by James Malcolm Rymer, begins serialization in Britain. This is the first literary appearance of Sweeney Todd.^[8]
unknown dates
- Mary Howitt's Wonderful Stories for Children is the first English translation of works by Hans Christian Andersen to be published in book format.^[9]
- Isaac D. Baker and Charles Scribner form the New York City publisher Baker & Scribner, predecessor of Charles Scribner's Sons.

New books

Fiction

Honoré de Balzac – Cousin Bette (La Cousine Bette)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Children of the Night
James Fenimore Cooper – The Redskins
Charles Dickens – The Battle of Life (novella)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Double: A Petersburg Poem (Двойник, Dvoynik; novella)
- Poor Folk (Бедные люди, Bednye Lyudi)^[10]
Alexandre Dumas, père
- Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge (The Knight of the Maison-Rouge: A Novel of Marie Antoinette)^[11]
- The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, serialization concluded; first English translation)
Thomas Dunn English – MDCCCXLII, or The Power of the "S. F"
Dmitry Grigorovich – The Village (Деревня, Derevnya)
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Mosses from an Old Manse
Mór Jókai – Weekdays (Hétköznapok)
James Sheridan Knowles – Fortescue
Frederick Marryat – The Privateersman
Herman Melville – Typee
George Sand – La Mare au diable [fr] (The Devil's Pond)

Children

Anne Knight – School-Room Lyrics
Hannah and Mary Townsend – The Anti-Slavery Alphabet

Drama

Paul Bocage – Échec et mat
Carolina Coronado – El cuadro de la esperanza
Gustav Freytag – Die Valentine
Eugène Marin Labiche and Auguste Lefranc – Frisette
George William Lovell
- Look Before You Leap
- The Wife's Secret
Martins Pena – first performances
- A Barriga do Meu Tio
- Os Ciúmes de um Pedestre, ou O Terrível Capitão do Mato
- As Desgraças de uma Criança [pt]
- Os Meirinhos
- Um Segredo de Estado
- O Usurário
Joseph Isidore Samson – La Famille poisson

Poetry

Gottfried Keller – Gedichte (Poems)
Edward Lear – Book of Nonsense^[12]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – The Belfry of Bruges

Non-fiction

Selim Aga – Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, A Native of Central Africa
Mary Anne Atwood (as Θυος Μαθος) – Early Magnetism in its Higher Relations to Humanity
Curtis H. Cavender (as H.C. Decanver) – Catalogue of Works in Refutation of Methodism
Charles Dickens – Pictures from Italy
F. W. Fairholt – Costume in England
George Grote – A History of Greece (publication begins)
George W. Johnson – A Dictionary of Gardening
Søren Kierkegaard – Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift til de philosophiske Smuler)
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

Births

March 17 – Kate Greenaway, English book illustrator and writer (died 1901)^[13]
March 20 – Rebecca Richardson Joslin, American non-fiction writer (died 1934)
March 25 – Helen Zimmern, German-born English writer and translator (died 1934)
April 4 – Comte de Lautreamont (pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse), Uruguayan-born French poet and writer (died 1870)
April 24 – Marcus Clarke, Australian novelist and poet (died 1881)^[14]
May 5 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish novelist (died 1916)
May 25 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (died 1900)
June 3 – Estelle Mendell Amory, American educator and author (died 1923)
June 30 – Frances Margaret Milne, Irish-born American author and librarian (died 1910)
July 5 – Christian Reid (pen name of Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan), American author (died 1920)
August 2 – Lucy Clifford (née Lucy Lane), English novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (died 1929)
August 5
- Louise Manning Hodgkins, American educator, author, and editor (died 1935)
- Alvilde Prydz, Norwegian novelist (died 1922)^[15]
September 3 – Emma Shaw Colcleugh, American author (died 1940)
October 1 – John Cadvan Davies, Welsh poet and Wesleyan Methodist minister (died 1923)^[16]
October 21 – Edmondo De Amicis, Italian novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer (died 1908)
unknown date – Mary Foot Seymour, American businesswoman and writer (died 1893)^[17]

Deaths

January 6 – Lewis Goldsmith, Anglo-French journalist (born c. 1763)
February 9 – Henry Gally Knight, English writer and traveler (born 1786)
March 10 – Harriette Wilson, English memoirist (born 1786)^[18]
June 24 – Jan Frans Willems, Flemish poet and political activist (born 1793)
July 12 – Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, English novelist (born 1790)
September 4 – Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, French dramatist (born 1764)^[19]
November 23 – George Darley, Irish poet, novelist, and critic (born 1795)
December 13 – Pasquale Galluppi, Italian philosopher (born 1770)

Awards

Chancellor's Gold Medal – Edward Henry Bickersteth
Newdigate Prize – G. O. Morgan^[20]

References

^ Arthur Hobson Quinn (25 November 1997). Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. JHU Press. p. 494. ISBN 978-0-8018-5730-0.
^ Dawn B. Sova (2007). Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. Infobase Publishing. p. 426. ISBN 978-1-4381-0842-1.
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ ^a ^b Alexander, Christine; Smith, Margaret (2006). The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866218-1.
^ "Scott Monument". AboutBritain. Archived from the original on 31 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
^ Marjorie Stone, "Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806–1861)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, October 2008.
^ Leon Litvack (1999). Charles Dickens's Dombey and son : an annotated bibliography. AMS Press. p. 20. ISBN 040461499X.
^ Smith, Helen R. (2002). New light on Sweeney Todd. London: Jarndyce. p. 28.
^ Peter France (2000). The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation. Oxford University Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-19-818359-4.
^ Mochulsky, Konstantin (1973). Dostoevsky: His Life and Work. Princeton University Press. pp. 24, 46. ISBN 0-691-01299-7.
^ Alexandre Dumas (2003). The Knight of Maison-Rouge: A Novel of Marie Antoinette. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 9781588363350.
^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Humphrey Carpenter; Mari Prichard (1984). "Kate Greenaway". The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford University Press. pp. 225–6. ISBN 0-19-211582-0
^ Mennell, Philip (1892). "Clarke, Marcus" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
^ Brinchmann, Chr; Daae, Anders; Hammer, K.V., eds. (1912). "Prydz, Frithjof". Hvem er Hvem? Haandbog over samtidige norske mænd og kvinder (in Norwegian) (1 ed.). Kristiania: Aschehoug. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
^ Edward Tegla Davies. "Davies, John Cadvan". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
^ Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer (2002). Women in World History: Schu-Sui. Yorkin Publications. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-7876-4073-6.
^ Wilson, Frances. 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.
^ College rhymes, contributed by members of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. 1868. p. 6.

[Quinn1997-1] Arthur Hobson Quinn (25 November 1997). Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. JHU Press. p. 494. ISBN 978-0-8018-5730-0.

[2] Dawn B. Sova (2007). Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. Infobase Publishing. p. 426. ISBN 978-1-4381-0842-1.

[COCEL-3] Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.

[OCB-4] Alexander, Christine; Smith, Margaret (2006). The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866218-1.

[5] "Scott Monument". AboutBritain. Archived from the original on 31 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-13.

[6] Marjorie Stone, "Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806–1861)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, October 2008.

[7] Leon Litvack (1999). Charles Dickens's Dombey and son : an annotated bibliography. AMS Press. p. 20. ISBN 040461499X.

[8] Smith, Helen R. (2002). New light on Sweeney Todd. London: Jarndyce. p. 28.

[9] Peter France (2000). The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation. Oxford University Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-19-818359-4.

[10] Mochulsky, Konstantin (1973). Dostoevsky: His Life and Work. Princeton University Press. pp. 24, 46. ISBN 0-691-01299-7.

[11] Alexandre Dumas (2003). The Knight of Maison-Rouge: A Novel of Marie Antoinette. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 9781588363350.

[12] Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

[13] Humphrey Carpenter; Mari Prichard (1984). "Kate Greenaway". The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford University Press. pp. 225–6. ISBN 0-19-211582-0

[14] Mennell, Philip (1892). "Clarke, Marcus" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.

[15] Brinchmann, Chr; Daae, Anders; Hammer, K.V., eds. (1912). "Prydz, Frithjof". Hvem er Hvem? Haandbog over samtidige norske mænd og kvinder (in Norwegian) (1 ed.). Kristiania: Aschehoug. Retrieved 23 September 2016.

[16] Edward Tegla Davies. "Davies, John Cadvan". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 October 2020.

[17] Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer (2002). Women in World History: Schu-Sui. Yorkin Publications. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-7876-4073-6.

[18] Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan's Revenge: The Life of Harriette Wilson, the Woman Who Blackmailed the King.

[19] 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.

[20] College rhymes, contributed by members of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. 1868. p. 6.

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