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Overview of the events of 1838 in literature
Overview of the events of 1838 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1838 .
Events
George Sand in 1838
Shakespeare's original text, including the character of the Fool.
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January 28 – The second night of Henrik Wergeland 's satirical musical play Campbellerne (The Campbells) in Christiania (Norway) provokes a riot.
March – The Monthly Chronicle , "a national journal of politics, literature, science, and art", begins publication by Longman in London.
June 7 – English poet and novelist Letitia Elizabeth Landon marries George Maclean, travelling with him in early August to Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast, where she dies on October 15 of a spasm arising from a heart defect.
October 19 – Poet Alfred de Musset is appointed librarian of the Ministry of the Interior in France.
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Anna Maria Bunn 's Gothic fiction The Guardian: a tale ("by an Australian") is published in Sydney . It is the first Australian novel printed and published in mainland Australia (although set in the author's native Ireland) and the first by a woman.[4]
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Lady Charlotte Guest begins publication of her translation into English of the Welsh traditional tales known as the Mabinogion .
New books
Fiction
Children
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 4 – Eliza Archard Conner , American novelist, journalist, and feminist (died 1912 )
February 6 – Henry Irving , English actor and theatre manager (died 1905 )
February 22 – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster , American author, poet, and editor (died 1912 )
March 6 – Mary Dickens , English memoirist, editor and novelist (died 1896 )
April 25 – Mary Torrans Lathrap , American author and reformer (died 1895 )
April 30 – Abba Goold Woolson , American writer (died 1921 )
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali writer (died
1894 )
July – Emma Pike Ewing , American author and educator (died 1917 )[6]
July 20 – Augustin Daly , American dramatist and theatre manager (died 1899 )
October 2 – Hester A. Benedict , American poet (died 1921 )
October 25 – Annie Hall Cudlip , English novelist, journalist and editor (died 1918 )
November 7 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , French Symbolist writer (died 1889 )
December 22 – Clara Doty Bates , American author (died 1895 )
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Deaths
March 28 – Thomas Morton , English playwright (born 1764 )
April 12 – Johann Adam Möhler , German theologian (born 1796 )
April 18 – Mariana Starke , English playwright and travel writer (born 1761 or 1762)
July 12 – John Jamieson , Scottish lexicographer (born 1759 )[7]
August 24 – Ferenc Kölcsey , Hungarian poet and critic (born 1790 )[8]
September 9 – Emma Jane Greenland , English painter, writer (born 1760 or 1761)
October 15 – Letitia Elizabeth Landon , English poet and novelist (born 1802 )
November 10 (October 29 O.S. ) – Ivan Kotliarevsky , Ukrainian writer (born 1769 )
December 17 – Józef Zawadzki , Polish publisher (born 1781 )
December 20 – Hégésippe Moreau , French poet (born 1810 )
December 26 – Ann Hatton , English novelist (born 1764 )
unknown date – Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin , Irish writer in Gaelic (born 1780 )[9]
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