Literature year 1843

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Literature year 1843
Hans Christian Andersen publishes the fairy tale The Ugly Duckling .
chronology

William Wordsworth, poet laureate in the United Kingdom

Events

prose

Eugène Sue

• October 19 : In the Paris daily Le Journal des Débats the last episode of the displayed serialized novel Mystères de Paris ( The Mysteries of Paris ), with the French writer Eugène Sue , the genre of the feuilleton novel justified.
• November 11th : Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Ugly Duckling is published in Denmark .

Title page of the first edition, colored illustration by John Leech

• December 19 : The novel A Christmas Carol ( A Christmas Carol ) by Charles Dickens is published. Due to differences with his editor, Dickens publishes the novel, which he wrote between September and December, at his own expense.

Fanny Lewald

• Fanny Lewald publishes the novel Jenny . It is considered to be one of the most important and earliest “ women's novels ” of the 19th century in German. The work, which received very positive reviews, is considered to be just as important for women as for Jewish emancipation .

Cover of the continuation series

• The first parts of the serial novel The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit ( Martin Chuzzlewit ) by Charles Dickens is out in print. The novel, which Dickens himself considers to be one of his best works, and which is considered to be his last picaresque novel , is received with moderate enthusiasm by the public. Dickens then changes the plot he planned in the course of the sequels.

Poetry

• Edgar Allan Poe publishes the ballad The Conqueror Worm in Graham's Magazine .

drama

• The drama Les Burgraves ( The Burgraves ) by Victor Hugo is a complete failure that forever spoils the author's enjoyment of the theater.

Non-fiction

• Tassilo of Heydebrand and Lasa , a member of the Berlin School in chess , which publishes Manual of chess on chess history , chess openings and chess endgames that the 1840 deceased chess player Paul Rudolf von Bilguer has begun. The work, which had five editions by 1874 , contributed significantly to the spread of algebraic notation and introduced the tabular representation of the opening theory. Among other things, the Bird defense of the Spanish game is mentioned for the first time.

Periodicals

• March 4 : The first edition of the illustrated weekly newspaper L'Illustration appears in Paris. It was founded by the journalists Édouard Charton, Jacques-Julien Dubochet , Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Paulin, the geographer Adolphe Joanne and the publisher Jean-Jacques Dubochet.

First edition of the Illustrirten Zeitung on July 1, 1843

• July 1 : In Leipzig, the first edition appearing Illustrirten newspaper as a licensed edition of the 1842 founded in England magazine The Illustrated London News . The publisher and editor is Johann Jacob Weber . Co-founder, technical director and liaison to the woodcut artists in Leipzig and Berlin is the Leipzig bookseller and publisher Carl Berendt Lorck .
• September: The Scot James Wilson founds The Economist magazine in London .

Title page of the first edition

• October 1 : The British weekly News of the World appears for the first time. It is published in London by John Browne Bell. With its low price of three pence, it appeals to a large readership, especially in the working class.

Others

• William Wordsworth becomes a Poet Laureate in the United Kingdom.

Born

• February 6 : Frederic WH Myers , British poet, critic and essayist († 1901 )
• February 6 : Paul Sébillot , French storyteller, painter and writer († 1918 )
• February 24 : Teófilo Braga , Portuguese writer and statesman († 1924 )

• March 29 : Karl Johann Brilmayer , Catholic priest, author and regional historian from Rhineland-Hesse († 1905 )
• March 29 : Paul Ferrier , French librettist and playwright († 1928 )

• April 15 : Henry James , American writer († 1905 )
• May 10 : Benito Pérez Galdós , Spanish writer († 1920 )

Peter Rosegger's birthplace in the " Waldheimat "

• July 31 : Peter Rosegger , the "forest farmer boy", Austrian writer († 1918 )
• September 26 : Joseph Furphy , Australian writer († 1912 )
• October 3 : Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz , German publisher and social democrat († 1922 )

• December 15 : Heinrich Schaumberger , German poet and narrator († 1874 )
• December 18 : Hermann von Maltzan , German naturalist and writer († 1891 )
• December 29 : Carmen Sylva , Romanian queen and writer († 1916 )

• Takvor Nalyan , Armenian actor, teacher, translator and author († around 1877 )

Died

• January 11 : Francis Scott Key , American lawyer and amateur poet (* 1779 )
• January 23 : Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué , German romantic poet (* 1777 )

• March 21 : Robert Southey , English poet, historian and critic (* 1774 )
• April 26 : Kagawa Kageki , Japanese tanka poet (* 1768 )

• May 13 : Agnes Franz , German writer (* 1794 )
• May 18 : Friedrich Christoph Perthes , German bookseller and publisher (* 1772 )

Holderlin monument in the Bad Homburg spa gardens

• June 7th : Friedrich Hölderlin , German poet (* 1770 )
• June 11 : Michael Leopold Enk von der Burg , Austrian Benedictine monk, writer and literary theorist (* 1788 )
• June 24th : Johann Friedrich Kind , German writer (* 1768 )

• July 9 : Washington Allston , American painter and poet (born 1779 )
• July 25 : Karl Friedrich von Rumohr , German art historian, writer and gastrosoph (* 1785 )
• September 9 : Günther von Berg , German politician and writer (* 1765 )

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