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==Events==

*[[March 4]] – [[Dion Boucicault]]'s first London première, the comedy ''[[London Assurance]]'' (originally ''Out of Town''), opens at the [[Theatre Royal, Covent Garden]]. It is presented by the husband-and-wife team [[Charles James Mathews|Charles Matthews]] and [[Elizabeth Vestris]].

*[[April 10]] – [[Horace Greeley]] begins publication of the ''[[New-York Tribune]]''.<ref>[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/essays/25/ ''New-York Tribune and New York Daily Tribune''], [[Library of Congress]].</ref>

*[[April 20]] – [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s [[short story]] "[[The Murders in the Rue Morgue]]" appears in ''[[Graham's Magazine]]'' ([[Philadelphia]]), where he has become editor in February. It will be recognized as the first significant work of [[detective fiction]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Silverman |first=Kenneth |year=1991 |authorlink=Kenneth Silverman |title=Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance |publisher=Harper Perennial |location=New York |edition=Paperback |page=[https://archive.org/details/edgarpoe00kenn/page/171 171] |isbn=978-0-06-092331-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/edgarpoe00kenn/page/171 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Meyers |first=Jeffrey |year=1992 |title=Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy |publisher=Cooper Square Press |location=New York |edition=Paperback |pages=123 |isbn=978-0-8154-1038-6}}</ref>

*[[June 23]] – London publisher [[Edward Moxon]] is tried and convicted of [[blasphemous libel]] for an edition of [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelley]]'s poem ''[[Queen Mab (poem)|Queen Mab]]'' ([[1813 in literature|1813]]) with its atheistic passages restored.<ref>{{cite book|title=Studies in Philology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-jg5AAAAMAAJ|year=1925|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|page=35}}</ref>

*[[July 17]] – ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' magazine, founded in London by [[Henry Mayhew]] and engraver [[Ebenezer Landells]], is edited by Mayhew and [[Mark Lemon]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=The History of "Punch" |url=https://archive.org/details/historypunch04spiegoog |first=Marion Harry |last=Spielmann |year=1895 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historypunch04spiegoog/page/n48 27]}}</ref>

===Fiction===

*[[Khachatur Abovian]] (posthumous) – ''[[Wounds of Armenia]]'' ({{lang-hy|Վերք Հայաստանի}} ''Verk Hayastani''; first Armenian novel)<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From The Eighteenth Century To Modern Times |year=2005 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |location=Detroit |isbn=9780814332214 |page=213 |author1=Hacikyan, Agop Jack |author2=Basmajian, Gabriel |author3=Franchuk, Edward S.}}</ref>

*[[Peter Christen Asbjørnsen]] and [[Jørgen Moe]] (collected anonymously) – ''[[Norwegian Folktales]] (Norske folkeeventyr)''

*[[Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda]] – ''[[Sab (novel)|Sab]]''

*[[Catherine Gore]]

**''Greville, or a Season in Paris''

**''Cecil, A Peer''

*[[Jeremias Gotthelf]] – ''Uli der Knecht'' (Uli the Farmhand)

*[[Theodor Mundt]] – ''[[Thomas Münzer]]''

*[[Edgar Allan Poe]] – short stories

**''[[Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific]]''

*[[Agnes Strickland]] – ''Alda, the British Captive''

 

===Drama===

*[[Dion Boucicault]] – ''[[London Assurance]]''

*[[Robert Browning]] – ''[[Pippa Passes]]''

*[[Mary Russell Mitford]] – ''Inez de Castro''

*[[George Dibdin Pitt]] (adapted from Catherine Crowe) – ''Susan Hopley; or, The Vicissitudes of a Servant Girl''

*[[Jules-Édouard Alboize de Pujol]] – ''Le Tribut des cent vierges''

*[[Juliusz Słowacki]] – ''Fantazy'' (published posthumously in 1866)

 

===Poetry===

==Births==

*[[January 15]] – [[Sarah Doudney]], English novelist, hymnist and children's writer (died [[1926 in literature|1926]])

*[[February 28]] – [[Jean Mounet-Sully]], French actor (died [[1904 in literature|1904]])

*[[March 21]] – [[Mathilde Blind]], German-born English poet (died [[1896 in literature|1896]])

*[[June 21]] – [[Charitie Lees Smith]], American hymnwriter (died [[1923 in literature|1923]])

*[[July 4]] – [[Susan Marr Spalding]], American poet (died [[1908 in literature|1908]])

*[[August 3]] – [[Juliana Horatia Ewing]], English children's writer (died [[1885 in literature|1885]])

*[[August 4]] – [[William Henry Hudson]], Argentinian-born English writer and naturalist (died [[1922 in literature|1922]])

*[[December 29]] – [[Henrietta A. Bingham]], American writer and editor (died [[1877 in literature|1877]])

*''unknown dates''

**[[Emily Pitts Stevens]], American editor, publisher, educator, and activist (died [[1906 in literature|1906]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Roger Levenson|title=Women in Printing: Northern California, 1857-1890|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BJDgAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Capra Press|isbn=978-0-88496-365-3|page=89}}</ref>

**[[Emily Elizabeth Veeder]], American novelist and poet (died after 1896)<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Dudley Warner|title=A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLIII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (K-Z)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j6k3F_89oyEC&pg=PA544|date=1 July 2008|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60520-251-8|pages=544}}</ref>

*[[February 21]] – [[Dorothea Tieck]], German translator (born [[1799 in literature|1799]])

*[[April 8]] – [[James Browne (writer)|James Browne]], Scottish man of letters (born [[1793 in literature|1793]])

*[[May 7]] – [[Thomas Barnes (journalist)|Thomas Barnes]], English editor of ''[[The Times]]'' (born [[1785 in literature|1785]])

*[[May 20]] – [[Joseph Blanco White]], Spanish-born English poet and theologian (born [[1775 in literature|1775]])