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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
January 25 –
William Macready opens a performance of
King Lear at the
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden , London, restoring most of
Shakespeare 's original text, including the character of the Fool.
[1]
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.
November 3 –
The Times of India is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce by Raobahadur Narayan Dinanath Velkar in
Bombay .
[2]
November 8 – French novelist
George Sand begins an uncomfortable winter living with her lover, the
ailing Polish-born composer and pianist
Frédéric Chopin , on the
Mediterranean island of
Majorca in the abandoned
Carthusian monastery of
Valldemossa .
[3]
unknown dates
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 )
June 26 –
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 )
unknown date
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]
References