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Overview of the events of 1851 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1851 .
Events
January 1 – The Georgian theatre company gives its first performance, under the direction of Giorgi Eristavi .June 5 – Harriet Beecher Stowe 's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin abolitionist weekly The National Era June – While waiting to cross the English Channel on honeymoon, Matthew Arnold probably begins to compose the poem "Dover Beach ".[ 1]
September 29 – Marian Evans, the future George Eliot , takes up her appointment as (assistant) editor of the Westminster Review John Chapman , in which capacity she will meet G. H. Lewes .November 14 – Herman Melville 's novel Moby-Dick ; or, The WhaleHarper & Brothers in New York , having been previously issued on October 18 as The Whale in an abridged 3-volume edition by Richard Bentley in London.December 2 – French coup d'état of 1851 . Victor Hugo is a leader of the unsuccessful insurrection against it and is forced into exile, initially to Brussels .December 24 – A fire at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. , destroys 35,000 books, about two–thirds of the collection.Vartan Pasha publishes Akabi's Story (Akabi Hikayesi ), an early example of a novel in the Turkish language printed in the Armenian alphabet ; and Hovhannes Hisarian publishes Khosrov yev Makruhi (Khosrov and Makruhi), the first romantic novel in the Armenian language , written in the vernacular Ashkharhabar dialect. Stephanos Th. Xenos publishes his "Istanbul novel" The Devil in Turkey; Or Scenes in Constantinople in English translated from his Greek manuscript, in London.Albertus Willem Sijthoff establishes his own publishing business at Leiden .[ 2]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
February 21 – Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg , Austrian writer and traveler (died 1918 )May 27 – Henry Festing Jones , English biographer, editor and lawyer (died 1928 )[ 3] June 11 – Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs. Humphry Ward), Tasmanian-born English novelist (died 1920 )June 29 – Jane Dieulafoy , French archeologist, novelist and journalist (died 1916 )August 23 – Alois Jirásek , Czech novelist and playwright (died 1930 )September 14 – H. E. Beunke , Dutch writer (died 1925 )September 16 – Emilia Pardo Bazán , Galician Spanish novelist (died 1921 )December 10 – Melvil Dewey , born Melville Dewey, American librarian (died 1931 )
Deaths
February 1 – Mary Shelley , English novelist and essayist (born 1797 )[ 4] February 23 – Joanna Baillie , Scottish poet and dramatist (born 1762 )February 24 – Deen Mahomed – author of first book in English by an Indian[ 5] May 23 – Richard Lalor Sheil , Irish dramatist and journalist (born 1791 )July 17 – Esther Copley , English children's writer and tractarian (born 1786 )August 1 – Harriet Lee , English novelist (born 1757 )August 10 – Heinrich Paulus , German theologian (born 1761 )September 14 – James Fenimore Cooper , American historical novelist (born 1789 )December 19 – Henry Luttrell , English politician, wit and society poet (born c. 1765)Unknown date – Vanchinbalyn Gularans , Mongolian poet (unknown year of birth)
References
^ Published 1867 . Allott, Kenneth , ed. (1965). The Poems of Matthew Arnold . London; New York: Longman Norton. p. 240. ISBN 0-393-04377-0
^ Maas, Norbert Maria Hubert (1996). "Altyt Waek Saem: De drukker-uitgever A.W. Sijthoff (1829-1913)" . Nieuw Letterkundig Magazijn (in Dutch). pp. 35–41. Retrieved 2010-08-29 . ^ Retrieved 1 January 2018. ^ Bennett, Betty T. Introduction to Selected Letters , xxvii.
^ Michael H. Fisher, "Mahomed, Deen (1759–1851)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP), 2004 Retrieved 13 May 2017.
