Summer –
George Sand and
Alfred de Musset begin a two-year affair, recorded in their respective novels Elle et lui (1859) and La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle (1836).
September 15 – The English poet
Arthur Henry Hallam, a close friend of
Tennyson and engaged to be married to his sister
Emily, dies suddenly of a brain haemorrhage in
Vienna aged 22. This year in his memory Tennyson writes "
Ulysses" (completed October 20; published in Poems of
1842), "Tithon" (an early version of "
Tithonus") and "
The Two Voices" (originally entitled "Thoughts of a Suicide"). He begins "Morte d'Arthur" (published 1842) and "Tiresias" (published
1885). In
1850 he will publish In Memoriam A.H.H.
Mrs
Favell Lee Mortimer's instructional text The Peep of Day, or, A series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving appears in England. It will sell a million copies in 38 languages.[3]
Franz Bopp – Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litthauischen, Altslawischen, Gotischen und Deutschen (Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend (Avestan), Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slavonic, Gothic and German, first part)
Summer –
George Sand and
Alfred de Musset begin a two-year affair, recorded in their respective novels Elle et lui (1859) and La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle (1836).
September 15 – The English poet
Arthur Henry Hallam, a close friend of
Tennyson and engaged to be married to his sister
Emily, dies suddenly of a brain haemorrhage in
Vienna aged 22. This year in his memory Tennyson writes "
Ulysses" (completed October 20; published in Poems of
1842), "Tithon" (an early version of "
Tithonus") and "
The Two Voices" (originally entitled "Thoughts of a Suicide"). He begins "Morte d'Arthur" (published 1842) and "Tiresias" (published
1885). In
1850 he will publish In Memoriam A.H.H.
Mrs
Favell Lee Mortimer's instructional text The Peep of Day, or, A series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving appears in England. It will sell a million copies in 38 languages.[3]
Franz Bopp – Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litthauischen, Altslawischen, Gotischen und Deutschen (Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend (Avestan), Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slavonic, Gothic and German, first part)