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==Events==
*[[January 21]] – [[Åbo Svenska Teater]] in Åbo ([[Turku]]), Finland, opens with a performance of the Swedish-language play ''Gubben i Bergsbygden''.
*March – [[W. Harrison Ainsworth]] takes over editorship of ''[[Bentley's Miscellany]]'' from [[Charles Dickens]] at the end of the year. Until April serializations of their respective novels ''[[Jack Sheppard (novel)|Jack Sheppard]]'' and ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' have been running simultaneously in the magazine.<ref>{{cite book|title=Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MNdFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT9|year=1874|publisher=Tinsley Brothers|pages=9}}</ref>▼
*[[May 31]] – Important [[British constitution]]al case of ''[[Stockdale v Hansard]]'' is launched when publisher [[John Joseph Stockdale]] sues for libel after [[John Roberton (1776)|John Roberton]]'s pseudo-medical work ''On Diseases of the Generative System'' (1811) is declared in a parliamentary report to be [[morality|indecent]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Loveland|first=Ian|pages=21–22|title=Political Libels: A Comparative Study|location=Oxford|publisher=Hart Publishing|isbn=1-84113-115-6|year=2000|url=https://books.google.com/?id=I-0KdQrIS8QC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=stockdale+v+hansard#PPA21,M1}}</ref>▼
*April – [[Washington Irving]] begins contributing regularly to ''[[The Knickerbocker]]'', and will publish thirty new pieces in the magazine through March [[1841 in literature|1841]] — including "The Creole Village,"
▲*[[May 31]] –
*[[Mikhail Lermontov]] publishes first two parts of ''[[A Hero of Our Time]]'' (Герой нашего времени, ''Geroy nashevo vremeni'') in ''[[Otechestvennye Zapiski]]''. The novel comes to be considered a pioneering classic of Russian psychological realism.▼
*September – The first known London production of ''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]'' after Shakespeare's era opens at the [[Theatre Royal, Covent Garden]], with [[Lucia Elizabeth Vestris|Madame Vestris]] as Rosaline.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Covent-Garden Theatre|newspaper=[[The Times]]|location=London|date=1839-10-01|page=5|quote=The manner in which it was played last night destroyed the brilliancy completely, and left a residuum of insipidity...}}</ref>
*''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', a late 14th-century [[Middle English]] [[Alliterative verse|alliterative]] [[chivalric romance|romance]] by the '[[Pearl Poet]]', is first published complete, in ''Syr Gawayne: a collection of ancient romance-poems by Scottish and English authors relating to that celebrated knight of the Round Table'' edited by [[Frederic Madden]] for the [[Bannatyne Club]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Turville-Petre|first=Thorlac|title=The Alliterative Revival|location=Woodbridge|publisher=Brewer|year=1977|pages=126–129|isbn=0-85991-019-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Burrow|first=J. A.|title=Ricardian Poetry|location=London|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul|year=1971|isbn=0-7100-7031-4|pages=4–5}}</ref>▼
*''unknown dates''
*[[George Bell (publisher)|George Bell]] establishes the London publisher [[George Bell & Sons]] as an educational bookseller in [[Bouverie Street]].▼
▲**[[Mikhail Lermontov]] publishes the first two parts of ''[[A Hero of Our Time]]'' (Герой нашего времени, ''Geroy nashevo vremeni'') in ''[[Otechestvennye Zapiski]]''. The novel comes to be
▲*[[W. Harrison Ainsworth]] takes over editorship of ''[[Bentley's Miscellany]]'' from [[Charles Dickens]] at the end of the year. Until April serializations of their respective novels ''[[Jack Sheppard (novel)|Jack Sheppard]]'' and ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' have been running simultaneously in the magazine.
▲**''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', a late 14th-century [[Middle English]] [[Alliterative verse|alliterative]] [[chivalric romance|romance]] by the '[[Pearl Poet]]', is first published complete
▲**[[George Bell (publisher)|George Bell]] establishes the London publisher [[George Bell & Sons]] as an educational bookseller in [[Bouverie Street]].
==New books==
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*[[Sarah Burney]] – ''The Romance of Private Life: The Renunciation and The Hermitage''
*[[Charles Dickens]] – ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]'' (serialization completed and in book form)
* [[Alexandre Dumas]]
*[[Catherine Gore]] – ''[[The Cabinet Minister (novel)|The Cabinet Minister]]''
*[[Maurits Hansen]] – ''Mordet
*[[Frederick Marryat]] – ''Diary in America''
*[[Harriet Martineau]] – ''Deerbrook''
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**''Spiridion''
*[[Jules Sandeau]] – ''Marianna''
*[[Stendhal]] – ''[[The Charterhouse of Parma]]
*[[Philip Meadows Taylor]] – ''[[Confessions of a Thug (novel)|Confessions of a Thug]]''
*[[Cirilo Villaverde]] – ''[[Cecilia Valdés]]''
===Children and young people===
*[[Catherine Sinclair]] – ''[[Holiday House
*[[Frederick Marryat]] – ''[[The Phantom Ship]]''
*[[Hans Christian Andersen]] – ''[[Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection#Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. Second Booklet|Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. Second Booklet]]'' (''Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Ny Samling. Andet Hefte'') comprising "[[The Garden of Paradise]]" ("Paradisets have"), "[[The Flying Trunk]]" ("Den flyvende Kuffert") and "[[The Storks]]" ("Storkene")
===Drama===
*[[Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton|Edward Bulwer]] – ''[[Richelieu (play)|Richelieu]]''
*[[Felicia Hemans]] – ''De Chatillon''
* [[James Sheridan Knowles]] – ''[[Love (play)|Love]]''
*[[George Sand]] – ''Gabriel''
*[[Juliusz Słowacki]] – ''[[Balladyna (drama)|Balladyna]]''
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===Poetry===
{{Main article|1839 in poetry}}
*[[Philip James Bailey]] (anonymous) – ''Festus''<ref>{{
*[[Cláudio Manuel da Costa]] (posthumous) – ''Vila Rica''
*[[Théodore Claude Henri, vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqué|Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué]] (compiler) – ''[[Barzaz Breiz]]'' (
*[[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] – ''Voices of the Night''
===Non-fiction===
*[[Louis Blanc]] – ''L'Organisation du
*[[Charles Darwin]] – ''[[The Voyage of the Beagle]]''
*[[Sarah Stickney Ellis|Mrs William Ellis]] – ''The Women of England: their social duties and domestic habits''
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==Births==
*[[January 7]] – [[Ouida]], English novelist (died [[1908 in literature|1908]])
*[[January 26]] – [[Mary Ann Maitland]], Scottish-born Canadian author (died [[1919 in literature|1919]])
*[[February 1]] – [[James Herne]], American dramatist (died [[1901 in literature|1901]])
*[[February 22]] – [[Francis Pharcellus Church]], American editor and publisher (died [[1906 in literature|1906]])
*[[March 9]] – [[Františka Stránecká]], Czech writer and collector of Moravian folklore (died [[1888 in literature|1888]])
*[[March 16]] – [[Sully Prudhomme]], French poet and essayist, winner of the first [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (died [[1907 in literature|1907]])
*[[March 28]] – [[Emily Lee Sherwood Ragan]], American author and journalist (died [[1916 in literature|1918]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Leonard|first1=John William|last2=Marquis|first2=Albert Nelson|title=Who's who in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NlpNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA657|edition=Public domain|volume=1|year=1899|publisher=Marquis Who's Who|page=657}}</ref>
*[[April 18]] – [[Henry Kendall (poet)|Henry Kendall]], Australian poet (died [[1882 in literature|1882]])
*[[June 21]] – [[Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis]], Brazilian poet and novelist (died [[1908 in literature|1908]])
*[[June 22]] – [[Clara Augusta Jones Trask]], American dime novelist (died [[1905 in literature|1905]])<ref>{{cite web| title=Trask, Clara Augusta Jones| url=http://www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/trask_clara.html| publisher=Northern Illinois University| access-date=16 April 2017}}</ref>
*[[July 5]] – [[Helen Stuart Campbell]], American author, editor, and reformer (died [[1918 in literature|1918]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Helen Stuart Campbell profile|encyclopedia=American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present|publisher=Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.|author=Moe, Phyllis|editor=Mainiero, Lina|year=1979|volume=1|location=New York, New York|pages=287–89}}</ref>
*[[July 11]] – [[Kate Sanborn]], American author and essayist (died [[1917 in literature|1917]])
*[[July 21]] – [[Emma Rood Tuttle]], American author and poet (died [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[August 4]] – [[Walter Pater]], English writer (died [[1894 in literature|1894]])
*[[August 9]] – [[Gaston Paris]], French writer and scholar (died [[1903 in literature|1903]])
*[[August 25]] – [[Martha E. Cram Bates]], American writer, journalist, and editor (died [[1905 in literature|1905]])
*[[September 10]] – [[Charles Sanders Peirce]], American philosopher (died [[1914 in literature|1914]])
*[[November 4]] – [[S. M. I. Henry]], American author, evangelist, and reformer (died [[1900 in literature|1900]])
*[[November 16]] – [[William De Morgan]] ''(sic)'', English novelist and potter (died [[1917 in literature|1917]])
*[[November 29]] – [[Ludwig Anzengruber]], Austrian dramatist (died [[1889 in literature|1889]])
*[[December 12]] – [[Charlotte Frances Wilder]], American writer (died [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[December 23]] – [[Lucinda Barbour Helm]], American author, editor, and activist (died [[1897 in literature|1897]])
==Deaths==
*[[January 16]] – [[Edmund Lodge]], English biographer and writer on heraldry (born [[1756 in literature|1756]])
*[[April 11]] – [[John Galt (novelist)|John Galt]], Scottish novelist and entrepreneur (born [[1779 in literature|1779]])<ref>{{Cite book |title=The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge |date=1856 |publisher=Bradbury and Evans |page=22 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_7dCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA22|language=en}}</ref>
*[[April 13]] – [[Robert Millhouse]], English weaver poet (born [[1788 in literature|1788]])
*[[April 22]] – [[Thomas Haynes Bayly]], English poet, songwriter and dramatist (born [[1797 in literature|1797]])
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*[[September 4]] – [[Hermann Olshausen]], German theologian (born [[1796 in literature|1796]])
*[[September 28]] – [[William Dunlap]], American dramatist (born [[1766 in literature|1766]])
*[[October 11]] – [[Leonor de Almeida Portugal, 4th Marquise of Alorna]], Portuguese noblewoman, painter, and poet (born [[1750 in literature|1750]])<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Avila e de Bolama |first1=Antonio José de Avila |title=A marqueza d'Alorna; algumas noticias authenticas para a historia da muito illustre e eminente escriptora que os poetas seus contemporaneos denominaram Alcipe |date=1916 |publisher=Lisboa Impr. de M.L. Torres |page=[https://archive.org/details/marquezadalornaa00avil/page/52 52] |url=https://archive.org/details/marquezadalornaa00avil |accessdate=24 March 2019}}</ref>
*[[October 22]] – [[Alexander Odoevsky]], Russian poet (born [[1802 in literature|1802]])
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**[[Elizabeth Dawbarn]], English writer on religion and child care (year of birth not known)
**[[Mary Pilkington]], English novelist, poet and children's writer (born [[1761 in literature|1761]])<ref name="LLC.2014">{{cite book|author=Book Builders LLC.|title=Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2J7XGzpSCncC&pg=RA1-PA191|date=14 May 2014|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-0869-8|pages=191–192}}</ref>
==Awards==
*[[Newdigate prize]] – [[John Ruskin]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward T. Cook|title=The Life of John Ruskin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cuwcQ4_A1cQC&pg=PA599|year=1968|publisher=Ardent Media|pages=68}}</ref>
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