1850 in literature
Overview of the events of 1850 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1850 .
Events
Balzac caricatured in the year of his death by Nadar January – The collected works of Edgar Allan Poe (died 1849) begin posthumous publication, co-edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold . Later in the year, Griswold adds a memoir to the third volume, denigrating Poe's reputation, based partly on forged evidence.[ 1]
January–April – The Germ Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood edited by William Michael Rossetti , is published (four issues, the last two retitled Art and Poetry ).[ 2]
March – The weekly Household Words Charles Dickens ," begins publication in London.
March 14 – Honoré de Balzac marries Ewelina Hańska at Berdyczów .[ 3] March 16 – Nathaniel Hawthorne 's historical novel The Scarlet Letter William Ticknor and James T. Fields in Boston, Massachusetts , where it is set. It sells 2,500 copies in ten days. A second edition appears by the end of the month.May 1 – The earliest surviving mention of the composition of Moby-Dick Herman Melville writes to Richard Henry Dana Jr. May (late) – Alfred Tennyson 's poem In Memoriam A.H.H. Arthur Hallam in 1833 , is published by Edward Moxon in London. The writer's anonymity is broken on June 1 by The Publishers' Circular .[ 4] [ 5]
June 13 – Alfred Tennyson marries his childhood friend Emily Sellwood at Shiplake .[ 4] July – William Wordsworth 's The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem 1798 , is first published about three months after his death by Edward Moxon in London in 14 books, with the title supplied by the poet's widow, Mary.[ 6]
August 5 – Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville meet for the first time, together with Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and publisher James T. Fields , on a picnic expedition to Monument Mountain (Berkshire County, Massachusetts) .[ 7] September 26 – The first play by Henrik Ibsen to be performed, The Burial Mound (Kjæmpehøjen)Christiania Theatre under the pseudonym Brynjolf Bjarme. His first written play, Catiline
November
November 1 – Charles Dickens 's novel David Copperfield The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account) – concludes serial publication and on November 14 appears complete in book form from Bradbury and Evans in London.November 19 – Alfred Tennyson is named Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in succession to William Wordsworth , but only after Samuel Rogers has declined the offer because of his age[ 9] [ 4] unknown date – Ivan Turgenev completes the writing of his play A Month in the Country (, Mesiats v derevne) as The Student in Paris, but it is rejected by the Saint Petersburg censor and will not be published until 1855 or performed until 1872 .
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Rose Hartwick Thorpe January 14 – Pierre Loti , French novelist (died 1923 )[ 18] January 15 – Mihai Eminescu , Romanian poet, novelist and journalist (died 1889 )[ 19] January 24 – Mary Noailles Murfree , American novelist (died 1922 )[ 20] January 27 – John Collier , British writer and painter (died 1934 )[ 21] February 1 – Emma Churchman Hewitt , American author and journalist (died 1921 )February 6 – Elizabeth Williams Champney , American author (died 1922 )[ 22] February 8 – Kate Chopin , American writer (died 1904 )[ 23] February 24 – Mary De Morgan , English children's writer and suffragist (died 1907 )February 27 –Laura E. Richards , American author (died 1943 )March 26 – Edward Bellamy , American Utopian novelist and socialist (died 1898 )[ 24] April 11 – Rosetta Luce Gilchrist , American physician, author (died 1921 )April 12 – Agnes Catherine Maitland , English academic, novelist and cookery writer (died 1906 )[ 25] April 13 – Bernhard Alexander (Alexander Márkus), Hungarian philosopher and polymath (died 1927 )April 16 – Auguste Groner , Austrian detective fiction writer (died 1929 )April 30
June 18
June 27 – Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo), Greek-born Irish American scholar and writer on Japan (died 1904 )July 2 – Dumitru C. Moruzi , Russian-born Romanian political figure and social novelist (died 1914 )July 9 (June 27 O.S. ) – Ivan Vazov , Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright (died 1921 )July 18 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe , American poet and author (died 1939 )July 25 – Lydia J. Newcomb Comings , American author, educator, lecturer (died 1946 )August 5 – Guy de Maupassant , French novelist and short story writer (died 1893 )[ 29] August 10 – Ella M. S. Marble , American physician (died 1929 )August 30 – Marcelo H. del Pilar , Filipino writer, journalist and reformist leader (died 1896 )[ 30] September 2 – Eugene Field , American poet and essayist (died 1895 )September 6 – Marion Howard Brazier , American journalist (died 1935 )October 26 – Grigore Tocilescu , Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist , author of many books on ancient Dacia (died 1909 )November 5 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox , American writer and poet (died 1919 )November 13 – Robert Louis Stevenson , Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer (died 1894 )[ 31] December 23 – Louise Reed Stowell , American scientist, author (died 1932 )[ 32] Unknown date – Annie Armitt , English novelist and poet (died 1933 )
Deaths
January 20 – Adam Oehlenschläger , Danish poet and dramatist (born 1779 )[ 33] April 7 – William Lisle Bowles , English poet and critic (born 1762 )April 23 – William Wordsworth , English poet (born 1770 )[ 34] May 24 – Jane Porter , Scottish novelist and dramatist (born 1776 )May 31 – Giuseppe Giusti , Italian poet (born 1809 )July 6 – Alexander Jamieson , Scottish textbook writer, schoolmaster and rhetorician (born 1782 )[ 35] July 14 – August Neander , German theologian (born 1789 )[ 36] July 19 – Margaret Fuller , American journalist and critic (presumed drowned, born 1810 )[ 37] August 18 – Honoré de Balzac , French novelist (heart condition, born 1799 )[ 38] August 22 – Nikolaus Lenau (Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau), Austrian poet (insanity, born 1802 )November 4 – Gustav Schwab , German writer and publisher (born 1792 )November 10 – Lumley Skeffington , English playwright and fop (born 1771 )December 4 – Robert Gilfillan , Scottish poet (born 1798 )[ 39] December 24 – Frédéric Bastiat , French political philosopher (tuberculosis; born 1801 )[ 40] December 29 – William Hamilton Maxwell , Scots-Irish novelist (born 1792 )[ 41]
Awards
References
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