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Overview of the events of 1840 in literature
Overview of the events of 1840 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1840 .
Events June – An amnesty to mark the accession of King Frederick William IV of Prussia frees the novelist Fritz Reuter from the Dömitz Fortress after two years' imprisonment on a charge of high treason.[1]
, serialization of which also concluded in February, had been intended as a critique of the Newgate novel.
August 10 – Fortsas hoax : Bibliophiles gather in Binche , Belgium for an auction of 52 unique, meticulously catalogued books from the collection of the late Comte de Fortsas. The Count, the books and the auction all prove fictitious.[4] unknown dates
The Percy Society is established in Britain to publish scholarly editions of early works in English.[5]
William Martin publishes the first edition of Peter Parley's Annual , a periodical imitating earlier American works by Samuel Griswold Goodrich .[6] [7] New books Fiction Children Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births January 18 – Henry Austin Dobson , English poet and essayist (died 1921 )January 21 – Sophia Jex-Blake , English medical writer and pioneer female physician (died 1912 )Esther Tuttle Pritchard, American editor, educator, and missionary (died
1900 February 5 – Charlotte Carmichael Stopes , Scottish writer and women's rights activist (died 1929 )February 15 – Titu Maiorescu , Romanian culture critic, philosopher, and political figure (died 1917 )April 2 – Émile Zola , French novelist (died 1902 )[14] May 1 – Cynthia S. Burnett , American editor, educator, and reformer (died 1932 )June 2 – Thomas Hardy , English novelist and poet (died 1928 )[15] June – Emma L. Shaw , American editor (died 1924 )
July 2 – Ludwig Rosenthal , German antiquarian bookseller (died 1928)Mildred Amanda Baker Bonham, American travel writer (died
1907 August 17 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt , English poet and radical (died 1922 )August 20 – Seraph Frissell , American physician and writer (died 1915 )September 2
Emilia, Lady Dilke as Emily Francis Strong, English art historian (died
1904 Giovanni Verga , Sicilian author (died 1922 )September 19 – Helen Ekin Starrett , American author, magazine founder, and school founder (died 1920 )September 27 – Rosa Nouchette Carey , English children's novelist (died 1909 )October 23 – Mary Mathews Adams , Irish-born American writer and philanthropist (died 1902 )November 8 – Esther E. Baldwin , American missionary and writer (died 1910 )November 29 – Rhoda Broughton , Welsh novelist and short-story writer (died 1920 )[16] December 28 – Ioan Kalinderu , Romanian classical scholar, jurist and agriculturalist (died 1913 )Deaths January 6 – Frances Burney (Fanny Burney, Mme d'Arblay), English novelist and diarist (born 1752 )[17] February 4 – Angélique de Rouillé , Belgian letter-writer (born 1756 )February 11 – Ivan Kozlov , Russian poet and translator (born 1779 )March 3 – Charles Reece Pemberton , British actor and dramatist (born 1790 )May 25 – Louisa Capper , English writer, philosopher and poet (born 1776 )[18] May 30 – Mary Boyle, Countess of Cork and Orrery , Irish literary hostess (born 1746 )[19] June 7 – Népomucène Lemercier , poet and dramatist (born 1771 )July 7 – Nikolai Stankevich , Russian philosopher and poet (born 1813 )Karl Leberecht Immermann, German novelist and dramatist (born
1796 )
[20] September – Emma Roberts , English travel writer and poet (born 1794 )
December 8 – Eliza Fenwick , English novelist and children's writer (born (born 1766 )[21] References
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Reuter, Fritz" Encyclopedia Americana
. ^ (22 : 150-158; repr. in The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (1869) (London: Smith, Elder & Co.) 15 :386)
^ Klinefelter, Walter (1942). The Fortsas Bibliohoax . New York: Press of the Woolly Whale. . ^ Smith, George Gregory (1893). "Martin, William (1801-1867)" Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . . . . ^ Hauge, Ingard (1975). "Poetisk realisme og nasjonalromantikk". In Beyer, Edvard (ed.). Norges Litteraturhistorie (in Norwegian). Vol. 2. Oslo: Cappelen. pp. 318–325. ^ Anton Schindler (1840). Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven . . . . . ^ Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage ^ Isabel T. Lublin (1904). Primer of German Literature .
