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Overview of the events of 1845 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1845 .
January 10 –
Robert Browning begins his correspondence with his future wife, fellow poet
Elizabeth Barrett .
[1] On
May 20 they meet for the first time. She begins writing her
Sonnets from the Portuguese .
January 29 –
Edgar Allan Poe first publishes the narrative poem "
The Raven ", under his own name in
The Evening Mirror of New York, of which he is a staff critic until February. It is rapidly reprinted across the United States and appears in book form by the end of the year.
March –
Walt Whitman publishes a short story, "Arrow-Tip" (later renamed "
The Half-Breed ").
April –
Nathaniel Hawthorne first publishes the short story "
P.'s Correspondence ", a pioneering example of
alternate history , in which deceased writers and political figures (such as
Keats ,
Shelley and
Byron ) are described as still living, and vice versa. The story appears in
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review and features in Hawthorne's
Mosses from an Old Manse (
1846 ).
April 24 –
Alfred de Musset and
Honoré de Balzac are awarded the French
Legion of Honour .
c. May –
Benjamin Disraeli 's "
Young England "
roman à thèse ,
Sybil; or, The Two Nations , is published in London; he receives a £10,000 advance.
Spring–Summer – The essays in
Thomas de Quincey 's
Suspiria de Profundis appear in
Blackwood's Magazine .
October 1 –
Prosper Mérimée 's
novella
Carmen appears in its original form in
Revue des deux Mondes . Book publication follows in 1846.
December – The future American President Brevet Second Lieutenant
Ulysses S. Grant plays
Desdemona in an amateur production of
Othello at
Corpus Christi, Texas .
[2]
December 30 – The American actress
Charlotte Cushman plays Romeo to her sister
Susan 's Juliet in a production of
Romeo and Juliet at the
Haymarket Theatre in London.
undated
January 8 –
Minnie Willis Baines , American author (died
1923 )
[7]
January 21 –
Lepha Eliza Bailey , American author, lecturer and social reformer (died
1924 )
March 21 –
Emily Thornton Charles , American poet, journalist, editor and newspaper founder (died
1895 )
April 4 –
Emma B. Alrich , American journalist, author and educator (died
1925 )
April 17 –
Lucy Bethia Walford , Scottish novelist and artist (died
1915 )
April 24 –
Carl Spitteler , Swiss poet (died
1924 )
[8]
April 30 –
Alexander Anderson , Scottish poet (died
1909 )
May 9 –
Georgina Castle Smith (pseudonym Brenda), English children's writer (died
1933 )
May 14 –
L. S. Bevington , English anarchist poet and essayist (died
1895 )
May 16 –
Amy Dillwyn , Welsh novelist (died
1935 )
May 17 –
Jacint Verdaguer , Catalan poet (died
1902 )
June 3 –
Estelle Mendell Amory , American educator and author (unknown year of death)
June 13 –
Alphonse-Jules Wauters , Belgian writer and editor (died
1916 )
June 15 –
Jennie McCowen , American physician, writer and medical journal editor (died
1924 )
June 17 –
Emily Lawless , Irish modernist novelist and poet (died
1913 )
July 18 –
Tristan Corbière , French poet (died
1875 )
July 26 –
Martina Swafford , American poet (died
1913 )
August 10 –
Abai Qunanbaiuly , Kazakh poet, philosopher and cultural reformer (died
1904 )
August 11 –
Addie C. Strong Engle , American author and publisher (died
1926 )
August 27 –
Martha Capps Oliver , American poet and hymnwriter (died
1917 )
[9]
September 3 –
Louise Herschman Mannheimer , Czech-American author, school founder, and inventor (died
1920 )
September 20 –
Sarah Dyer Hobart , American author (died
1921 )
September 30 –
Margaret Dye Ellis , American social reformer, lobbyist and correspondent (died
1925 )
October 14 –
Olindo Guerrini , Italian poet (died
1916 )
October 25 –
Rebecca Agatha Armour , Canadian novelist (died
1891 )
November 19 –
Agnes Giberne , English children's writer (died
1939 )
November 25 –
José Maria de Eça de Queirós , Portuguese novelist (died
1900 )
December 6 –
Rose Porter , American religious novelist (died
1906 )
January 22 –
Pierre Hyacinthe Azaïs , French philosopher (born
1766 )
[10]
February 22 – Rev.
Sydney Smith , English writer and wit (born
1771 )
[11]
May 3 –
Thomas Hood , English poet and humorist (born
1799 )
[12]
May 12
May 26 –
Jónas Hallgrímsson , Icelandic poet (accident, born
1807 )
June 17 – Rev.
Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby) English comic poet (ulcerated larynx, born
1788 )
July 12 –
Henrik Wergeland , Norwegian poet and dramatist (tuberculosis; born
1808 )
August 3 –
Charlotte Ann Fillebrown Jerauld , American poet and story writer (born
1820 )
October 26 –
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne , Scottish songwriter and collector (born
1766 )
November 11 –
Maria Gowen Brooks , American poet (tropical fever, born c. 1794)
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^
"Carl Spitteler | Swiss poet" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 27 December 2020 .
^ Thomas William Herringshaw (1914).
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^ James Anthony Froude; John Tulloch (1866).
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