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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 .
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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 )
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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]
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^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Reuter, Fritz" . Encyclopedia Americana .
^ Sutherland, John (2012). The Dickens Dictionary . London: Icon. pp. 67–71. ISBN 978-184831-391-0 .
^ (22 : 150-158; repr. in The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (1869) (London: Smith, Elder & Co.) 15 :386)
^ Klinefelter, Walter (1942). The Fortsas Bibliohoax . New York: Press of the Woolly Whale.
^ P. J. A. Levine (13 February 2003). The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaeologists in Victorian England 1838-1886 . Cambridge University Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-521-53050-7 .
^ Smith, George Gregory (1893). "Martin, William (1801-1867)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 302.
^ R. B. Kershner (1992). Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature: Chronicles of Disorder . UNC Press Books. p. 218. ISBN 978-0-8078-4387-1 .
^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 11. 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 .