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Overview of the events of 1824 in literature
Overview of the events of 1824 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1824 .
Events
January – The British periodicals
The Children's Friend
[1] and The Child's Companion both publish their first issues.
January 24 – The first issue of a radical quarterly founded by
Jeremy Bentham , The
Westminster Review , is published in London.
February 9 – Because of dire family financial straits,
Charles Dickens , who has just turned 12, begins work in a
blacking factory in London. On February 23 his father,
John Dickens , is committed to the
Marshalsea prison as a debtor.
[2]
February 15 –
Lord Byron falls ill at
Missolonghi while taking part in the
Greek War of Independence . He dies of fever on
April 19 .
April – The United States Literary Gazette , a semi-monthly, begins publication. It publishes poetry by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and
William Cullen Bryant , among many others.
[3]
May — "Sketches of the Five American Presidents, and of the Five Presidential Candidates, From the Memoranda of a Traveler," by
John Neal , the first work by an American author published in a British literary journal.
[4]
May 7 – The première of
Beethoven 's
Symphony No. 9 (the "Choral") is played at the
Theater am Kärntnertor in
Vienna . It incorporates a setting of
Schiller 's "
Ode to Joy " (Ode an die Freude ,
1785 ).
May 17 – The publisher
John Murray with five of
Lord Byron 's friends and executors, decide to destroy the manuscript of
Byron's Memoirs (which he has been given to publish), because of scandalous details that would damage Byron's reputation. Opposed only by
Thomas Moore , the two volumes are dismembered and burnt in the fireplace at the
John Murray (publisher) 's office, 50
Albemarle Street in London.
[5]
June 21 – The
Vagrancy Act in
England provides for the prosecution of "every Person wilfully exposing to view, in any Street... or public Place, any obscene Print, Picture, or other indecent Exhibition".
unknown date –
Julia Catherine Beckwith 's St. Ursula's Convent or, The Nun of Canada; Containing Scenes from Real Life becomes the first novel published in Canada by a native-born Canadian (anonymously).
By James Fenimore Cooper. 1st ed. title page dated 1823, published January 1824
New books
Fiction
Children
William Cardell – The Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy
Agnes Strickland
The Aviary; Or, An Agreeable Visit. Intended for Children
The Use of Sight: Or, I Wish I Were Julia
The Little Tradesman, or, A Peep into English Industry
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Louisa Gurney Hoare – Friendly Advice on the Management and Education of Children, Addressed to Parents of the Middle and Labouring Classes of Society
Births
January 7 –
Julia Kavanagh , Irish novelist (died
1877 )
January 8 –
Wilkie Collins , English mystery novelist (died
1889 )
January 15 –
Anna Mary Howitt , English writer, painter and feminist (died
1884 )
January 26 –
Katharine Sarah Macquoid , English novelist and travel writer (died
1917 )
[7]
March 5 –
Lucy Larcom , American author, teacher, and poet (died
1893 )
March 19 –
George Murray Smith , English publisher, founder of the Dictionary of National Biography (died
1901 )
April 27 –
Edward Bruce Hamley , English military writer, general and politician (died
1893 )
May 19 –
William Allingham , Irish poet (died
1889 )
June 20 –
Rowena Granice Steele , American journalist, author, editor, publisher, and performer (died
1901 )
July 11 –
Mary Charlotte Ward Granniss Webster Billings , American writer, activist, hymn writer, evangelist, and missionary (died
1904 )
[8]
July 27 –
Alexandre Dumas, fils , French novelist (died
1895 )
August 21 —
Caroline Dana Howe , American poet, hymnwriter, and author (died
1907 )
September 15 –
A. D. T. Whitney , American poet and girls' writer (died
1906 )
October 18 –
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano , Spanish realist novelist (died
1905 )
November 8 –
Annie Chambers Ketchum (religious name, Sister Amabilis), American author, educator, and lecturer (died
1904 )
[9]
December 10 –
George MacDonald , Scottish author, poet and Christian minister (died
1905 )
Lord Byron on his deathbed as depicted by
Joseph Denis Odevaere c.1826
Deaths
Awards
References
^ William Carus Wilson (1824).
The Children's friend [ed.] by W. C. Wilson [and others] . Kirkby Lonsdale. p. 1.
^
"A Charles Dickens Journal" . Dickenslive . Retrieved 2014-06-06 .
^ Burt, Daniel S. (2004).
The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
ISBN
978-0-618-16821-7 .
^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal . Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 71.
ISBN
080-5-7723-08 .
^ Eisler, Benita. Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame . p. 3.
^
Theodric; a domestic tale; and other poems.
^ Lippincott (1902).
Chamber's Biographical Dictionary: The Great of All Times and Nations (Public domain ed.). Lippincott. pp. 619–.
^
"Mary Billings" . uudb.org . Retrieved 16 September 2018 .
^ Ballagh, James Curtis; Fleming, Walter Lynwood (1909).
The South in the Building of the Nation: Southern biography, ed. by W. L. Fleming (Public domain ed.). Southern historical publication society. pp.
https://archive.org/details/southinbuilding01richgoog/page/n21 1]–.
^ The Arch of Titus: The Newdigate prize poem, recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 30, 1824 (Newdigate Prize poem). Baxter, 1824.