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Overview of the events of 1844 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1844 .
Children and young people
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 )
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National Library of Finland . Retrieved 22 January 2024 .
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"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.