1844 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1844.

Events

• March–July – Alexandre Dumas, père's historical adventure story The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is serialized in the Paris newspaper Le Siècle.
• August 28 – Alexandre Dumas, père's near-recent historical adventure story The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) begins serialization in the Paris newspaper Journal des débats (continuing through January 1846); book publication also begins this year.
• October – George W. M. Reynolds begins publication of the bestselling "penny dreadful" city mysteries series The Mysteries of London.
• Autumn – Margaret Fuller joins Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune as literary critic, becoming the first full-time female book reviewer in American journalism.
• December 2 – Emily Brontë writes the poem "A Death-Scene".^[1]
• The first volumes of the Patrologia Latina, a 217-volume collection of works in Latin, are published in Paris by Jacques Paul Migne. The initial volumes include the writings of Tertullian and Cyprian, among other authors.

New books

Births

• January 2 – Emeline Harriet Howe, American writer and social activist (died 1934)
• January 8 – Sarah Carmichael Harrell, American educator, reformer, and writer (died 1929)
• January 14 – Susan Frances Nelson Ferree, American writer and activist (died 1910)
• March 30 – Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet (died 1896)
• April 2 – George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher (died 1930)
• April 16 – Anatole France, French writer (died 1924)
• April 12 – Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis, American poet, writer, and editor (died 1909)
• May 9 – Sarah Newcomb Merrick, American teacher, writer, and physician (unknown year of death)
• July 21 – Matilda Maranda Crawford, American-Canadian writer and poet (died 1920)
• July 22 – William Archibald Spooner, English academic and instigator of spoonerisms (died 1930)
• July 28 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (died 1889)
• August 29 – Edward Carpenter, English socialist poet and philosopher (died 1929)
• September 9 – Maurice Thompson, American novelist (died 1901)
• October 1 – H. Maria George Colby, American author of novelettes and juvenile literature (died 1910)
• October 15 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (died 1900)
• October 22 or 23 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (died 1923)
• October 23 – Robert Bridges, English poet (died 1930)
• October 25 – Joseph Marmette, Canadian novelist and historian (died 1895)
• October 27 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist (died 1916)
• November 21 – Ada Cambridge, English/Australian writer and poet (died 1926)
• December 13 – Catharine Hitchcock Tilden Avery, American author, editor, and educator (died 1911)
• Unknown dates
  • Mrs. Lovett Cameron (Caroline "Emily" Sharp), English romantic novelist (died 1921)
  • Alice Diehl (née Mangold), English novelist and concert pianist (died 1912)
  • Janet Milne Rae, Scottish novelist (died 1933)
  • Evelyn Whitaker, English children's writer (died 1929)

Deaths

• January 4 – Maria Hack, English educational writer (born 1777)
• January 27 – Charles Nodier, French novelist (born 1780)
• February 11 – Tamenaga Shunsui, Japanese novelist (born 1790)
• February 12 – Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek, Czech dramatist (born 1783)
• May 2 – William Thomas Beckford, English novelist and travel writer (born 1760)
• June 11 – Urban Jarnik, Slovene poet and historian (born 1784)
• June 15 – Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (born 1777)
• July 11 – Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet and philosopher (born 1800)
• August 14 – Henry Cary, Gibraltar-born Irish author and translator (born 1772)
• September 18 – John Sterling, Scottish novelist and poet (born 1806)
• October 28 – Sándor Kisfaludy, Hungarian poet and dramatist (born 1772)
• November 4 – Barbara Hofland, English children's and schoolbook author (born 1770)
• November 21 – Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (born 1769)

Awards

• Newdigate Prize – Evgeny Baratynsky

References