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1844 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1844.

Contents

Events

  • March–July – Alexandre Dumas, père's historical adventure story The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is serialized in the Paris newspaper Le Siècle.
  • August 28 – Alexandre Dumas, père's near-recent historical adventure story The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) begins serialization in the Paris newspaper Journal des débats (continuing through January 1846); book publication also begins this year.
  • October – George W. M. Reynolds begins publication of the bestselling "penny dreadful" city mysteries series The Mysteries of London.
  • Autumn – Margaret Fuller joins Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune as literary critic, becoming the first full-time female book reviewer in American journalism.
  • December 2 – Emily Brontë writes the poem "A Death-Scene".
  • The first volumes of the Patrologia Latina, a 217-volume collection of works in Latin, are published in Paris by Jacques Paul Migne. The initial volumes include the writings of Tertullian and Cyprian, among other authors.

    • Fiction

  • José de Alencar – Os contrabandistas (unpublished, lost)
  • Honoré de Balzac – Les Paysans
  • Charles Dickens
  • The Chimes
  • Martin Chuzzlewit (serial publication concludes)
  • Benjamin Disraeli – Coningsby
  • Alexandre Dumas
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • The Three Musketeers
  • Charles Lever – Tom Burke of Ours
  • Joaquim Manuel de Macedo – A Moreninha
  • G. W. M. Reynolds – The Mysteries of London
  • Eugène Sue – Le Juif Errant
  • William Makepeace Thackeray – The Luck of Barry Lyndon
  • Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna – The Wrongs of Women

    • Children

  • Heinrich Hoffmann – Struwwelpeter
  • Frederick Marryat – Settlers in Canada

    • Drama

  • Émile Augier – La Ciguë
  • Christian Friedrich Hebbel – Maria Magdalene
  • José Zorilla – Don Juan Tenorio

    • Poetry

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Poems
  • Heinrich Heine – Neue Gedichte
  • James Russell Lowell – Poems
  • Coventry Patmore – Poems

    • Non-fiction

  • Robert Chambers (published anonymously) – Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
  • Friedrich Engels – Condition of the Working Classes in England
  • Joseph Ennemoser – Geschichte der Magie (History of Magic)
  • Søren Kierkegaard – The Concept of Anxiety
  • Karl Marx – On the Jewish Question
  • John Stuart Mill – Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
  • Arthur Penrhyn Stanley – Life of Arnold
  • Max Stirner – The Ego and Its Own
  • Henry Fox Talbot – The Pencil of Nature (first book illustrated with photographs from a camera)

    • Births

  • March 30 – Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet (died 1896)
  • April 2 – George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher (died 1930)
  • April 16 – Anatole France, French writer (died 1924)
  • July 22 – William Archibald Spooner, English academic and instigator of spoonerisms (died 1930)
  • July 28 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (died 1889)
  • August 29 – Edward Carpenter, English socialist poet and philosopher (died 1929)
  • September 9 – Maurice Thompson, American novelist (died 1901)
  • October 15 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (died 1900)
  • October 22 or 23 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (died 1923)
  • October 23 – Robert Bridges, English poet (died 1930)
  • October 25 – Joseph Marmette, Canadian novelist and historian (died 1895)
  • October 27 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist (died 1916)
  • Unknown dates
  • Mrs. Lovett Cameron (Caroline "Emily" Sharp), English romantic novelist (died 1921)
  • Alice Diehl (née Mangold), English novelist and concert pianist (died 1912)
  • Janet Milne Rae, Scottish novelist (died 1933)
  • Evelyn Whitaker, English children's writer (died 1929)

    • Deaths

  • January 4 – Maria Hack, English educational writer (born 1777)
  • January 27 – Charles Nodier, French novelist (born 1780)
  • February 11 – Tamenaga Shunsui, Japanese novelist (born 1790)
  • February 12 – Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek, Czech dramatist (born 1783)
  • May 2 – William Thomas Beckford, English novelist and travel writer (born 1760)
  • June 11 – Urban Jarnik, Slovene poet and historian (born 1784)
  • June 15 – Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (born 1777)
  • July 11 – Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet and philosopher (born 1800)
  • August 14 – Henry Cary, Gibraltar-born Irish author and translator (born 1772)
  • September 18 – John Sterling, Scottish novelist and poet (born 1806)
  • October 28 – Sándor Kisfaludy, Hungarian poet and dramatist (born 1772)
  • November 4 – Barbara Hofland, English children's and schoolbook author (born 1770)
  • November 21 – Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (born 1769)

    • Awards

  • Newdigate Prize – Evgeny Baratynsky

    • References

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