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Overview of the events of 1847 in literature
Overview of the events of 1847 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1847 .
Events Anne , Emily , and Charlotte Brontë, by their brother Branwell (who has painted himself out of the picture)June
Elizabeth Gaskell 's first published work of fiction, the story "Life in Manchester: Libbie Marsh's Three Eras", appears in Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress [1] Hans Christian Andersen begins his first visit to Britain, during which he meets Charles Dickens .
June 10 – The fictional date at the end of Anne Brontë 's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [2] July – The London publisher Thomas Cautley Newby accepts for publication Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights Anne Brontë 's Agnes Grey [2]
August 7 –24 – Charlotte Brontë completes Jane Eyre Haworth and sends the manuscript to her publisher, who has rejected The Professor [3] September 16 – William Shakespeare 's house of birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in England is bought by the United Shakespeare Company for preservation.[4] Schiller 's house in Weimar is opened to the public as a museum.October 19 – Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre Smith, Elder & Co. in 3 volumes.[2] November – Dmitry Grigorovich 's anti-serfdom novel Anton Goremyka Sovremennik with its politically sensitive last scene rewritten by a censor.
November 1 – John Maddison Morton 's one-act farce Box and Cox Lyceum Theatre, London (under the new management of Madame Vestris and her husband Charles James Mathews ) with John Pritt Harley and John Baldwin Buckstone in the title roles.December 14 – Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights Anne Brontë 's Agnes Grey T. C. Newby .[5] Wuthering Heights will be Emily's only published novel, as she dies a year later, aged 30.unknown date – The London publisher E. Churton brings out the first six of George Sand 's books to be issued in English, as translated by Matilda Hays , Eliza Ashurst and Rev. Edmund Larken .[6] New books Fiction Children and young people Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births January 6 – Milovan Glišić , Serbian dramatist and translator (died 1908 )January 9 – Oyyarathu Chandu Menon , Indian Malayalam-language novelist (died 1899 )April 2 – Flora Annie Steel (Flora Annie Webster), English writer (died 1929 )April 7 – Jens Peter Jacobsen , Danish novelist (died 1885 )April 10 – Joseph Pulitzer , Hungarian American newspaperman (died 1911 )August 20 – Bolesław Prus (Aleksander Głowacki), Polish novelist (died 1912 )September 2 – George R. Sims , English writer (died 1922 )September 22 – Alice Meynell (Alice Thompson), English poet (died 1922 )November 8 – Bram Stoker , Irish novelist and theater manager (died 1912 )December 26 – Hugh Conway , English novelist (died 1885 )unknown date – Maria Fetherstonhaugh , English novelist (died 1918 )[7] Deaths February 8 – George Walker , English Gothic novelist (born 1772 )April 23 – Erik Gustaf Geijer , Swedish historian, poet, philosopher, and composer (born 1783 )May 4 – Alexandre Vinet , Swiss critic and theologian (born 1797 )August 14 – Frans Michael Franzén , Swedish writer (born 1772 )August 28 – Eugène Bourgeois , French dramatist (born 1818 )September 16 – Grace Aguilar , English novelist (born 1816 )October 13 – Johann Heinrich van Ess , German theologian (born 1772 )October 22 – Henriette Herz , German salon hostess (born 1764 )[8] December 14 – Dorothy Ann Thrupp , hymnwriter and translator (born 1779 )References
^ Vol. 1 (in 3 parts).
^ a b c Alexander, Christine; Smith, Margaret (2006). The Oxford Companion to the Brontës . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-861432-6 ^ British Library Online Gallery: Manuscript of "Jane Eyre" . Accessed 5 April 2013.^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0 ^ Oxford Index: Thomas Cautley Newby Accessed 5 April 2013.^ Tilby, Michael (2000). "George Sand". In Classe, Olive (ed.). Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English ISBN 978-1-884964-36-7 ^ Dod's peerage, baronetage, and knightage of Great Britain and Ireland ... ^ Ludwig Geiger (1880), "Herz, Henriette ", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
