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Overview of the events of 1844 in literature
Overview of the events of 1844 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1844 .
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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 F. Ferree , American writer and activist (died 1910 )
February 25 – Alice Diehl (née Mangold), English novelist and concert pianist (died 1912 )[9]
March 19 – Minna Canth , Finnish writer and social activist (died 1897 )[10]
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 )[11]
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)
June 28 – John Boyle O'Reilly , Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (died 1890 )[12]
July 8 – Janet Milne Rae , Scottish novelist (died 1933 )[13]
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 )[14]
August 29 – Edward Carpenter , English socialist poet and philosopher (died 1929 )[15]
September 9 – Maurice Thompson , American novelist (died 1901 )
October 1 – H. Maria George Colby , American author of novelettes and juvenile literature (died 1910 )
October 6 – Margret Holmes Bates , American novelist and poet (died 1927 )
October 15 – Friedrich Nietzsche , German philosopher (died 1900 )[16]
October 22 or 23 – Sarah Bernhardt , French actress (died 1923 )
October 23
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 )[18]
December 13 – Catharine H. T. Avery , American author, editor, and educator (died 1911 )
December 27 – Lisa Anne Fletcher , American poet and correspondent (died 1905 )
unknown dates
January 4 – Maria Hack , English educational writer (born 1777 )
January 27 – Charles Nodier , French novelist (born 1780 )[20]
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 )[21]
November 4 – Barbara Hofland , English children's and schoolbook author (born 1770 )
November 21 – Ivan Krylov , Russian fabulist (born 1769 )
December 27 – John Caradja , Greek Prince of Wallachia, translator and theatrical promoter (asthma, born 1754 )
References [ edit ]
^ "Saima" . Digital Collections . The National Library of Finland . Retrieved 22 January 2024 .
^ "Saima nro 1, 4.1.1844" . Selected Works of J V. Snellman . Retrieved 22 January 2024 .
^ Standiford, Les (2008). The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits . New York: Crown. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-307-40578-4 .
^ Christopher John Murray (2004). Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850 . Taylor & Francis. p. 1158. ISBN 978-1-57958-422-1 .
^ Hatfield, C. W., ed. (1941). The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë . Columbia University Press.
^ David Coward. A History of French Literature . Ardent Media. p. 779.
^ Ron Engle; Tice L. Miller (6 May 1993). The American Stage . Cambridge University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-521-41238-4 .
^ Jeffrey L. Sammons (1979). Heinrich Heine: A Modern Biography . Princeton University Press. pp. 275–278.
^ Alice Mangold Diehl (1908). The True Story of My Life: An Autobiography by Alice M. Diehl, Novelist-writer-musician, with a Photogravure Portrait . J. Lane. p. 4.
^ Maijala, Minna. "Minna Canth (1844–1897)" . Klassikkogalleria . Kristiina Institute, University of Helsinki . Retrieved 8 December 2020 .
^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1921" . www.nobelprize.org . Retrieved 28 September 2023 .
^ Roche, James Jeffrey (1 January 1891). "Life of John Boyle O'Reilly" . Mershon. p. 79. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017 – via Google Books.
^ "British Women Writers of Fiction" . Furrowed Middlebrow . 1 January 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2020 .
^ Gerard Manley Hopkins (1960). Gerard Manley Hopkins . Ardent Media. p. 1.
^ Chushichi Tsuzuki (15 September 2005). Edward Carpenter 1844-1929: Prophet of Human Fellowship . Cambridge University Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-521-01959-0 .
^ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche . Hackett Publishing. p. 3. ISBN 0-87220-358-1 .
^ Lee Templin Hamilton (1991). Robert Bridges: An Annotated Bibliography, 1873-1988 . University of Delaware Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-87413-364-6 .
^ William Fleming Stevenson (1873). Hymns for the Church and Home . H. S. King. p. 85.
^ John Sutherland (13 October 2014). The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction . Routledge. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-317-86333-5 .
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Nodier, Charles ". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 731.
^ Albert Tezla (1970). Hungarian Authors; a Bibliographical Handbook . Harvard University Press. p. 322. ISBN 978-0-674-42650-4 .
^ University of Cambridge (1859). A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge . Macmillan. pp. 15, 247.