1839 in literature
Overview of the events of 1839 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1839 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 7 – Ouida , English novelist (died 1908 )
January 26 – Mary Ann Maitland , Scottish-born Canadian author (died 1919 )
February 1 – James Herne , American dramatist (died 1901 )
February 22 – Francis Pharcellus Church , American editor and publisher (died 1906 )
March 9 – Františka Stránecká , Czech writer and collector of Moravian folklore (died 1888 )
March 16 – Sully Prudhomme , French poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1907 )
March 28 – Emily Lee Sherwood Ragan , American author and journalist (died 1918 )[ 8]
April 18 – Henry Kendall , Australian poet (died 1882 )
June 21 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis , Brazilian poet and novelist (died 1908 )
June 22 – Clara Augusta Jones Trask , American dime novelist (died 1905 )[ 9]
July 5 – Helen Stuart Campbell , American author, editor, and reformer (died 1918 )[ 10]
July 11 – Kate Sanborn , American author and essayist (died 1917 )
July 21 – Emma Rood Tuttle , American author and poet (died 1916 )
August 4 – Walter Pater , English writer (died 1894 )
August 9 – Gaston Paris , French writer and scholar (died 1903 )
August 25 – Martha E. Cram Bates , American writer, journalist, and editor (died 1905 )
September 10 – Charles Sanders Peirce , American philosopher (died 1914 )
November 4 – S. M. I. Henry , American author, evangelist, and reformer (died 1900 )
November 16 – William De Morgan (sic) , English novelist and potter (died 1917 )
November 29 – Ludwig Anzengruber , Austrian dramatist (died 1889 )
December 12 – Charlotte Frances Wilder , American writer (died 1916 )
December 23 – Lucinda Barbour Helm , American author, editor, and activist (died 1897 )
Deaths
January 16 – Edmund Lodge , English biographer and writer on heraldry (born 1756 )
April 11 – John Galt , Scottish novelist and entrepreneur (born 1779 )[ 11]
April 13 – Robert Millhouse , English weaver poet (born 1788 )
April 22 – Thomas Haynes Bayly , English poet, songwriter and dramatist (born 1797 )
May 9 – Joseph Fiévée , French journalist, novelist, essayist and playwright (born 1767 )
May 17 – Archibald Alison , Scottish author (born 1757 )
May 21 – José María Heredia y Campuzano , Cuban poet (born 1803 )
June 26 – Winifred Gales , English novelist and memoirist (born 1761 )
August 3 – Dorothea von Schlegel , German novelist and translator (born 1764 )
September 4 – Hermann Olshausen , German theologian (born 1796 )
September 28 – William Dunlap , American dramatist (born 1766 )
October 11 – Leonor de Almeida Portugal, 4th Marquise of Alorna , Portuguese noblewoman, painter, and poet (born 1750 )[ 12]
October 22 – Alexander Odoevsky , Russian poet (born 1802 )
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Awards
References
^ Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day . Tinsley Brothers. 1874. p. 9.
^ David Schuyler (6 April 2012). Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 . Cornell University Press. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-8014-6470-6 .
^ Loveland, Ian (2000). Political Libels: A Comparative Study . Oxford: Hart Publishing. pp. 21–22. ISBN 1-84113-115-6 .
^ "Covent-Garden Theatre". The Times . London. 1839-10-01. p. 5. The manner in which it was played last night destroyed the brilliancy completely, and left a residuum of insipidity...
^ Turville-Petre, Thorlac (1977). The Alliterative Revival . Woodbridge: Brewer. pp. 126–129. ISBN 0-85991-019-9 .
^ Burrow, J. A. (1971). Ricardian Poetry . London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 4–5. ISBN 0-7100-7031-4 .
^ Birley, Robert (1962). "Philip James Bailey, Festus ". Sunk Without Trace: some forgotten masterpieces reconsidered . London: Rupert Hart-Davis. pp. 172–208 .
^ Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1899). Who's who in America . Vol. 1 (Public domain ed.). Marquis Who's Who. p. 657.
^ "Trask, Clara Augusta Jones" . Northern Illinois University. Retrieved 16 April 2017 .
^ Moe, Phyllis (1979). "Helen Stuart Campbell profile". In Mainiero, Lina (ed.). American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present . Vol. 1. New York, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. pp. 287–89.
^ The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge . Bradbury and Evans. 1856. p. 22.
^ Avila e de Bolama, Antonio José de Avila (1916). A marqueza d'Alorna; algumas noticias authenticas para a historia da muito illustre e eminente escriptora que os poetas seus contemporaneos denominaram Alcipe . Lisboa Impr. de M.L. Torres. p. 52 . Retrieved 24 March 2019 .
^ Book Builders LLC. (14 May 2014). Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries . Infobase Publishing. pp. 191–192. ISBN 978-1-4381-0869-8 .
^ Edward T. Cook (1968). The Life of John Ruskin . Ardent Media. p. 68.