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Overview of the events of 1848 in literature
Overview of the events of 1848 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1848 .
Events
January 22 – The second edition of
Charlotte Brontë 's
Jane Eyre is dedicated to
William Makepeace Thackeray .
[1] It is also first published in the United States this year.
February 21 –
Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels publish
The Communist Manifesto (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) in London.
March 15 –
Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire :
Hungarian Revolution of 1848 – The poet
Sándor Petőfi with
Mihály Táncsics and other young men lead the bloodless revolution in
Pest , reciting Petőfi's "
Nemzeti dal " (National song) and the "
12 points " and printing them on the presses of Landerer és Heckenast, so forcing
Ferdinand I of Austria to abolish censorship.
[2]
March 18 – The
Boston Public Library is founded by an act of the
Great and General Court of
Massachusetts .
April 1 –
Charles Dickens 's novel
Dombey and Son concludes its serial publication.
April 10 –
John Ruskin marries
Effie Gray .
[3]
May 5 – Poet
Alfred de Musset is dismissed as librarian of the Ministry of the Interior under the
French Second Republic .
c.
June 27 – The second and final novel of
Anne Brontë (as Acton Bell),
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is published in London. It sells out in six weeks, requiring a reissue.
[1]
July – Serial publication of
William Makepeace Thackeray 's novel
Vanity Fair by
Punch magazine concludes. It appears in book format (from the same typesetting) by
Bradbury and Evans in London, with illustrations by the author.
October 1 – At the funeral of
Branwell Brontë , his younger sister Emily begins to show symptoms of a cold, soon revealed to be tuberculosis.
[4]
October 18 –
Elizabeth Gaskell 's first novel,
Mary Barton : A Tale of Manchester Life is published anonymously by
Chapman & Hall in London in two volumes.
c. October – The first
frescoes of scenes from
English literature in the Poets' Hall of the
Palace of Westminster
[5] are completed:
Charles West Cope 's Griselda's first Trial of Patience (based on
Chaucer 's
The Clerk's Tale ) and
John Callcott Horsley 's Satan touched by Ithuriel's Spear while whispering evil dreams to Eve (based on
Milton 's
Paradise Lost ).
November
December 22 – Three days after her death from
tuberculosis at
Haworth
Parsonage , aged 30,
[1]
Emily Brontë is buried in her father's
St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth . The funeral procession is led by her father and her dog, Keeper.
[4]
unknown date – The first issue of the
penny dreadful Gentleman Jack, or Life on the Road , probably by
James Malcolm Rymer , is published in London by
Edward Lloyd . Inspired by the life of the
highwayman
Claude Duval (hanged 1670), but opening in 1780, the series will reach over 200 parts by 1852 and be popular on both sides of the Atlantic.
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 6 –
Hristo Botev , Bulgarian poet and journalist (died
1876 )
January 28 –
Mary Elizabeth Hawker , Scottish-born English fiction writer (died
1908 )
February 5 –
Joris Karl Huysmans (Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans), French novelist (died
1907 )
February 16 –
Octave Mirbeau , French travel writer, novelist and playwright (died
1917 )
February 22 –
Emily Selinger , American author, painter, and educator (died
1827 )
February 24 –
Grant Allen , Canadian novelist and science writer (died
1899 )
March 9 –
George Panu , Romanian memoirist, critic, and politician (died
1910 )
March 11 –
Emma Pow Bauder , American novelist, evangelist, missionary, and reformer (died
1932 )
April 4 –
Alice Williams Brotherton , American author of poetry, lyrics, essays, reviews, and children's stories (died
1930 )
May –
Bonifaciu Florescu , Wallachian and Romanian polygraph (died
1899 )
May 15 –
Susanne Vandegrift Moore , American editor and publisher (died
1926 )
June 19 –
Mary R. Platt Hatch , American author (died
1935 )
July 15 –
Vilfredo Pareto , Italian economist, political scientist and philosopher (died
1923 )
August 14 –
Mary E. Mann (Mary Rackham), English novelist and short story writer (died
1929 )
August 16 –
Francis Darwin , English botanist and academic (died
1925 )
September 4 –
Alice E. Bartlett , American author, novelist, essayist, lyricist (died
1920 )
October 25 –
Karl Emil Franzos , Austrian novelist (died
1904 )
unknown date –
Maryana Marrash , Syrian writer and salonist (died
1919 in literature )
probable year –
Bithia Mary Croker , Irish novelist (died
1920 )
Deaths
January 19 –
Isaac D'Israeli , English scholar and man of letters (born
1766 )
[8]
February 9 –
Ann Batten Cristall , English poet (born
1769 )
February 13 –
Sophie von Knorring , Swedish novelist (born
1797 )
July 4 –
François-René de Chateaubriand , French historian, politician and diplomat (born
1768 )
July 6 –
He Changling (賀長齡), Chinese scholar and writer on governance (born
1785 )
August 9 –
Frederick Marryat (Captain Marryat), English novelist and children's writer (born
1792 )
September 24 –
Branwell Brontë , English painter, writer and poet, brother of Emily, Charlotte and Anne (tuberculosis; born
1817 )
[4]
November 23 –
John Barrow , English writer, geographer and linguist (born
1764 )
[9]
December 19 –
Emily Brontë , English novelist and poet (tuberculosis, born
1818 )
[10]
December 23 –
James Cowles Prichard , English
ethnologist and
psychiatrist
Unknown date –
Leyla Khanim , Turkish woman poet
References