This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1846.
Events
January 3 – The American author Edgar Allan Poe issues the final edition of the Broadway Journal, a journal he owned for just a few months. January 15 – Fyodor Dostoevsky's first original novel, Poor Folk (Бедные люди, Bednye Lyudi), is published in the St. Petersburg Collection. January 21 – The Daily News, edited by Charles Dickens, first appears in London. After 17 issues Dickens hands over as editor to his friend John Forster. It continues until 1930. April Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales are first translated into English, beginning with "The Little Mermaid" in Bentley's Miscellany. Poe's essay "The Philosophy of Composition" is published in Graham's Magazine. c. May 22 – The Brontë sisters' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, appears in London. It sells only two copies in the first year. June 27 – Charlotte Brontë completes the manuscript of her novel The Professor. It is offered to several publishers during the year but rejected. August 15 – The Scott Monument to Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh (Scotland) is inaugurated. September 12 – The poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, and depart for the continent a week later. October 1 – Serial publication of Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son begins. November 21 – The String of Pearls: a Romance, probably written by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest, begins serialization in Britain. This is the first literary appearance of Sweeney Todd. unknown dates Mary Howitt's Wonderful Stories for Children is the first English translation of works by Hans Christian Andersen to be published in book format. Isaac D. Baker and Charles Scribner form the New York City publisher Baker & Scribner, predecessor of Charles Scribner's Sons.
New books
Fiction
Honoré de Balzac – Cousin Bette (La Cousine Bette) Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Children of the Night James Fenimore Cooper – The Redskins Charles Dickens The Battle of Life (novella) Dombey and Son (serialization begins) Fyodor Dostoevsky The Double: A Petersburg Poem (Двойник, Dvoynik; novella) Poor Folk (Бедные люди, Bednye Lyudi) Alexandre Dumas, père Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge (The Knight of the Maison-Rouge: A Novel of Marie Antoinette) The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, serialization concluded; first English translation) La Dame de Montsoreau Mémoires d'un médecin: Joseph Balsamo ("Memoirs of a Physician: vol. 1, Joseph Balsamo") Dmitry Grigorovich – The Village (Деревня, Derevnya) Nathaniel Hawthorne – Mosses from an Old Manse Mór Jókai – Weekdays (Hétköznapok) James Sheridan Knowles – Fortescue Frederick Marryat – The Privateersman Herman Melville – Typee George Sand – (The Devil's Pond) Thomas Dunn English - 1844; or, The Power of the "SF"
Children
Anne Knight – School-Room Lyrics
Hannah and Mary Townsend – The Anti-Slavery Alphabet
Drama
Paul Bocage – Échec et mat
Carolina Coronado – El cuadro de la esperanza
Gustav Freytag – Die Valentine
Eugène Marin Labiche and Auguste Lefranc – Frisette
George William Lovell
Look Before You Leap
The Wife's Secret
Martins Pena – first performances
A Barriga do Meu Tio
Os Ciúmes de um Pedestre, ou O Terrível Capitão do Mato
Os Meirinhos
Um Segredo de Estado
O Usurário
Joseph Isidore Samson – La Famille poisson
Poetry
Gottfried Keller – Gedichte (Poems) Edward Lear – Book of Nonsense Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – The Belfry of Bruges
Non-fiction
Selim Aga – Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, A Native of Central Africa Mary Anne Atwood (as Θυος Μαθος) – Early Magnetism in its Higher Relations to Humanity Curtis H. Cavender (as H.C. Decanver) – Catalogue of Works in Refutation of Methodism Charles Dickens – Pictures from Italy F. W. Fairholt – Costume in England George Grote – A History of Greece (publication begins) George W. Johnson – A Dictionary of Gardening Søren Kierkegaard – Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift til de philosophiske Smuler) David Strauss – The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined, translated by George Eliot from Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet Theodor Waitz – Grundlegung der Psychologie (Foundation of Psychology) William Whewell – Elements of Morality