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The year '1846 in literature' involved some significant new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ First publication of the ''Daily News'', edited by Charles Dickens.

★ American author Edgar Allan Poe prints the final edition of the ''Broadway Journal'', a journal he owned for only a few months, with the final issue dated January 3, 1846.

New books

★ Honoré de Balzac - ''Cousin Bette''

★ Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - ''The Children of the Night''

★ James Fenimore Cooper - ''The Redskins''

★ Alexandre Dumas, père

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★ ''The Chevalier of the Maison Rouge''

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★ ''La Dame de Montsoreau''

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★ ''Memoirs of a Physician''

★ Fyodor Dostoevsky - ''Poor People''

★ Nathaniel Hawthorne - ''Mosses from an Old Manse''

★ Mór Jókai - ''Weekdays''

★ Frederick Marryat - ''The Privateersman''

★ Herman Melville - ''Typee''

★ George Sand - ''The Devil's Pond''

New drama

★ Carolina Coronado - ''El cuadro de la esperanza''

Poetry

★ Gottfried Keller - ''Gedichte''

★ Edward Lear - ''Book of Nonsense''

★ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - ''The Belfry of Bruges''

Non-fiction

★ Hans Christian Andersen - ''Fairy Tale of My Life'' (autobiography)

★ Charles Dickens - ''Pictures from Italy''

★ Theodor Waitz - ''Grundlegung der Psychologie (Foundation of Psychology)''

★ William Whewell - ''Elements of Morality''

Births

★ April 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer (+ 1870)

★ May 5 - Henryk Sienkiewicz Polish novelist (+ 1916)

★ May 25 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet

Deaths

★ January 6 - Lewis Goldsmith, journalist

★ February 9 - Henry Gally Knight, author of "Oriental tales"

★ July 12 - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, novelist

★ December 13 - Pasquale Galluppi, philosopher

★ ''date unknown'' - Harriette Wilson, memoirist

Awards

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