1843 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1843.

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Events

• January
  • Serial publication begins of Charles Dickens' picaresque novel The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Chapman & Hall in London. In the July chapters, he lands his hero in the United States.
  • Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" appears in The Pioneer in Boston and his poem "The Conqueror Worm" in Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia.
• February – Macmillan Publishers is founded in London by the Scottish brothers Daniel and Alexander Macmillan.
• April 4 – William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, after the death of Robert Southey on March 21. He is reassured that it is seen as a purely honorific position.[1]
• June 21 – Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Gold-Bug" begins to be serialized in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper as the winning entry in a competition, earning Poe a $100 prize. It will be widely reprinted and adapted for theater. It popularizes cryptography.
• July – Margaret Fuller's "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women" appears in The Dial magazine in the United States. It will later be expanded into a book, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845).
• August 19 – Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic short story "The Black Cat" is first published in The Saturday Evening Post.
• August 22 – The Theatres Act in the United Kingdom ends a virtual monopoly of theatrical performances held by the patent theatres and encourages development of popular entertainment.[2]
• September – Ada Lovelace (Byron's daughter) translates and expands Menabrea's notes on Charles Babbage's analytical engine, including an algorithm for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers, seen as the world's first computer program.[3][4][5]
• October – Anna Atkins begins publishing Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, a collection of contact printed cyanotype photograms of algae, to form the first book illustrated with photographs.[6][7][8][9]
• December 17 – Publication of Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Chapman & Hall is made at his expense. It introduces the character Ebenezer Scrooge. Released on December 19, it sells out by Christmas Eve.[10]
• Christmas – Thomas Hood's poem "The Song of the Shirt" appears in Punch.[11]
• unknown dates
  • The Routledge publishing firm is founded in London by the Cumberland-born bookseller George Routledge.
  • The steam-powered rotary printing press is invented by Richard March Hoe in the United States.[12]

New books

Fiction

• W. Harrison Ainsworth – Windsor Castle
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Last of the Barons
• James Fenimore Cooper – Le Mouchoir; an Autobiographical Romance
• Charles Dickens
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Martin Chuzzlewit
• Alexandre Dumas, père – Georges[13]
• Catherine Gore – The Banker's Wife
• Léon Gozlan – Aristide Froissart[14]
• Victor Hugo – Les Burgraves
• Søren Kierkegaard – Diary of a Seducer (literary novel included in Either/Or)
• Frederick Marryat – Monsieur Violet
• Eugène Sue – The Mysteries of Paris
• Robert Smith Surtees – Handley Cross
• Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna – Perils of the Nation

Children and young people

• Hans Christian Andersen – New Fairy Tales (Nye Eventyr; published 1844, includes "The Ugly Duckling" – Den grimme ælling)

Drama

• Eusebio Asquerino – Casada, vírgen y mártir
• V. A. Bhave – Sita Swayamvar
• Théophile Gautier – Un Voyage en Espagne
• Nikolai Gogol – The Gamblers
• W. T. Moncrieff – The Scamps of London

Poetry

Main article: 1843 in poetry

• Thomas Hood – "The Song of the Shirt"
• Richard Henry Horne – Orion: an epic poem
• Edgar Allan Poe – "The Conqueror Worm"

Non-fiction

• Leon Battista Alberti – I Libri della famiglia
• Anna Atkins – Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions
• Paul Rudolf von Bilguer – Handbuch des Schachspiels (Handbook of Chess)
• George Borrow – The Bible in Spain; or, the Journey, Adventures, and Imprisonment of an English-man in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
• James Braid – Neurypnology: or the Rationale of Nervous Sleep
• Thomas Carlyle – Past and Present
• Marquis de Custine – La Russie en 1839 (Russia in 1839)
• Benjamin Hall Kennedy – Elementary Latin Primer
• Søren Kierkegaard (as Johannes de Silentio) – Fear and Trembling (Frygt og Bæven)
• Thomas Babington Macaulay – Critical and Historical Essays
• Moses Margoliouth – The Fundamental Principles of Modern Judaism Investigated
• John Stuart Mill – A System of Logic
• William H. Prescott – History of the Conquest of Mexico
• John Ruskin – Modern Painters, vol. 1
• Wei Yuan and others (comp.) – Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms (海國圖志, Hǎiguó Túzhì)

Births

• January 14 – Hans Forssell, Swedish historian (died 1901)
• January 17 – Florence Montgomery, English novelist and children's writer (died 1923)
• February 24
  • Teófilo Braga, Portuguese poet, playwright and politician (died 1924)
  • Violet Fane (Mary Montgomerie Lamb), English novelist, poet and essayist (died 1905)
• April 15
  • Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, American author, reformer, and philanthropist (died 1915)
  • Henry James, American-born fiction writer (died 1916)
• April 25 – Constance Cary Harrison, American playwright and novelist (died 1920)
• May 10 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (d. 1920)
• May 3 – Edward Dowden, Irish poet and critic (died 1913)
• May 10 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (died 1920)
• May 25 – Christabel Rose Coleridge, English novelist and editor (died 1921)
• June 9 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian pacifist writer (died 1914)[15]
• July 5 – Mandell Creighton, English bishop and historian (died 1901)
• September 26 – James Rice, English novelist (died 1882)
• October 25 – Gleb Uspensky, Russian writer (died 1902)[16]
• November – Lucy M. Hall, American physician and writer (died 1907)
• December 7 – Helena Nyblom, née Roed, Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales (died 1926)
• December 10 – Isabella Fyvie Mayo, Scottish poet, novelist, and reformer (died 1914)
• December 21 – Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealand poet (died 1898)
• December 23 – Ada Langworthy Collier, American author (died 1919)[17]
• December 29 – Princess Elisabeth of Wied ("Carmen Sylva"), German-born queen consort and writer (died 1916)
• unknown dates
  • Mary Bathurst Deane, English novelist (died 1940)
  • Lillian Rozell Messenger, American poet (died 1921)[18]

Deaths

• January 11 – Francis Scott Key, American poet (born 1779)[19]
• February 10 – Richard Carlile, English writer and agitator for suffrage and freedom of the press (born 1790)
• February 22 – Mary Hays, English feminist writer (born 1759)
• March 21 – Robert Southey, English poet and Poet Laureate (born 1774)
• May 12 – Charlotte von Kalb, German writer (born 1761)
• May 19 – Charles James Apperley ("Nimrod"), English sporting writer (born 1777)
• May 28 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (born 1758)
• June 6 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist (born 1770)
• July 4 – John Basset, writer on Cornish mining (born 1791)
• July 9 – Karoline Pichler, Austrian novelist (born 1769)
• July 31 – William Thomas Lowndes, English bibliographer (born c.1798)
• August 10 – Jakob Friedrich Fries, German philosopher (born 1773)
• October 21 – William Pinnock, English writer, publisher and bookseller (born 1782)
• November 25 – Ellen Pickering, English novelist (born 1801 or 1802)
• December 11 – Casimir Delavigne, French poet and dramatist (born 1793)

Awards

• Newdigate Prize – Matthew Arnold, "Cromwell"

References

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2. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 266–267. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
3. Fuegi, John; Francis, Jo (October–December 2003). "Lovelace & Babbage and the creation of the 1843 'notes'". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 25 (4): 16–26. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2003.1253887.
4. "Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace". Archived from the original on 21 July 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-11.
5. Menabrea, L. F. (1843). "Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage". Scientific Memoirs. 3. Archived from the original on 13 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
6. Parr, Martin; Badger, Gerry (2004). The Photobook: a history, Volume I. London: Phaidon. ISBN 0-7148-4285-0.
7. James, Christopher (2009). The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (2nd ed.). Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-1-4180-7372-5. Retrieved 2009-08-11.
8. "Photography. Cyanotype photograph. Anna Atkins (1799-1871)". Seeing is Believing: 700 years of scientific and medical illustration. New York Public Library. 2001 [1843]. Retrieved 2009-08-11.
9. Peres, Michael R. (2007). The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: Digital Imaging, Theory and Applications, History, and Science (4th ed.). Amsterdam; Boston: Elsevier/Focal Press. ISBN 978-0-240-80740-9.
10. Dickens, Charles (2006). Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert (ed.). A Christmas Carol and other Christmas Books. Oxford world's classics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280694-9.
11. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
12. Meggs, Philip B. (1998). A History of Graphic Design (3rd ed.). Wiley. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-471-29198-5. It receives U.S. Patent 5,199 in 1847 and begins commercial use in the same year.
13. Reed, Frank Wild (1933). A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père. England: J. A. Neuhuys. p. 152
14. Pierre Echinard et Georges Jessula, Léon Gozlan (1803–1866), coll. IMMAJ, Marseille, 2003, p. 66. ISBN 2-9519299-1-9.
15. "Bertha von Suttner". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
16. Twayne's World Authors Series. Twayne Publishers. 1972. p. 15-17.
17. The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review. 1890. p. 415.
18. Thomas William Herringshaw (1904). Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century: Accurate and Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women. American Publishers' Association. p. 654.
19. Hester Dorsey Richardson (1913). Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families. Williams and Wilkins Company. p. 153.