Overview of the events of 1840 in literature
Overview of the events of 1840 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1840 .
New books [ edit ] Fiction [ edit ] Children [ edit ] Non-fiction [ edit ] January 18 – Henry Austin Dobson , English poet and essayist (died 1921 ) January 21 – Sophia Jex-Blake , English medical writer and pioneer female physician (died 1912 ) January 26 – Esther Tuttle Pritchard , American editor, educator, and missionary (died 1900 ) February 5 – Charlotte Carmichael Stopes , Scottish writer and women's rights activist (died 1929 ) February 15 – Titu Maiorescu , Romanian culture critic, philosopher, and political figure (died 1917 ) April 2 – Émile Zola , French novelist (died 1902 )[14] May 1 – Cynthia S. Burnett , American editor, educator, and reformer (died 1932 ) June 2 – Thomas Hardy , English novelist and poet (died 1928 )[15] June – Emma L. Shaw , American editor (died 1924 ) July 2 – Ludwig Rosenthal , German antiquarian bookseller (died 1928) August 6 – Mildred Amanda Baker Bonham , American travel writer (died 1907 ) August 17 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt , English poet and radical (died 1922 ) August 20 – Seraph Frissell , American physician and writer (died 1915 ) September 2 September 19 – Helen Ekin Starrett , American author, magazine founder, and school founder (died 1920 ) September 27 – Rosa Nouchette Carey , English children's novelist (died 1909 ) October 23 – Mary Mathews Adams , Irish-born American writer and philanthropist (died 1902 ) November 8 – Esther E. Baldwin , American missionary and writer (died 1910 ) November 29 – Rhoda Broughton , Welsh novelist and short-story writer (died 1920 )[16] December 28 – Ioan Kalinderu , Romanian classical scholar, jurist and agriculturalist (died 1913 ) January 6 – Frances Burney (Fanny Burney, Mme d'Arblay), English novelist and diarist (born 1752 )[17] February 4 – Angélique de Rouillé , Belgian letter-writer (born 1756 ) February 11 – Ivan Kozlov , Russian poet and translator (born 1779 ) March 3 – Charles Reece Pemberton , British actor and dramatist (born 1790 ) May 25 – Louisa Capper , English writer, philosopher and poet (born 1776 )[18] May 30 – Mary Boyle, Countess of Cork and Orrery , Irish literary hostess (born 1746 )[19] June 7 – Népomucène Lemercier , poet and dramatist (born 1771 ) July 7 – Nikolai Stankevich , Russian philosopher and poet (born 1813 ) August 25 – Karl Leberecht Immermann , German novelist and dramatist (born 1796 )[20] September – Emma Roberts , English travel writer and poet (born 1794 ) December 8 – Eliza Fenwick , English novelist and children's writer (born (born 1766 )[21] References [ edit ] ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Rines, George Edwin, ed. 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ISBN 9780198715542 . ^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal . Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 145. ISBN 080-5-7723-08 . ^ Lease, Benjamin (1972). That Wild Fellow John Neal and the American Literary Revolution . Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. p. 205. ISBN 0-226-46969-7 . ^ Hauge, Ingard (1975). "Poetisk realisme og nasjonalromantikk". In Beyer, Edvard (ed.). Norges Litteraturhistorie (in Norwegian). Vol. 2. Oslo: Cappelen. pp. 318–325. ^ Anton Schindler (1840). Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven . Aschendorff. ^ Flora Tristan; Doris Beik (1993). Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist: Her Travel Diaries and Personal Crusade . Indiana University Press. p. 53. ISBN 0-253-31163-2 . ^ Frederick William John Hemmings (1970). Émile Zola . Oxford University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780198812302 . ^ Mallikarjun Patil (1997). Thomas Hardy: The Poet : a Critical Study . Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 1. ISBN 978-81-7156-701-0 . ^ Marilyn Wood; Rhoda Broughton (1993). Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920): profile of a novelist . Paul Watkins. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-871615-34-0 . ^ Margaret Anne Doody (6 April 1989). Frances Burney: The Life in the Works . Cambridge University Press. p. 381. ISBN 978-0-521-36258-0 . ^ Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica . Hamilton, Adams, and Company. 1908. p. 79. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage . Burke's Peerage Limited. 1868. p. 259. ^ Isabel T. Lublin (1904). Primer of German Literature . Swan Sonnenschein. p. 213. ^ Eliza Fenwick (9 October 1998). Secresy - Second Edition . Broadview Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-77048-232-6 .