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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1839'''.
==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>
*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," where he coins the phrase "[[the almighty dollar]]".<ref>{{cite book|author=David Schuyler|title=Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Vw4B7E2muQC&pg=PA184|date=6 April 2012|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-6470-6|pages=184}}</ref>
*[[May 31]] – An important [[British constitution]]al case of ''[[Stockdale v Hansard]]'' begins 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/books?id=I-0KdQrIS8QC
*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>
*''unknown dates''
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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 paa Maskinbygger Roolfsen'' (The Murder of Engine-maker Roolfsen)
*[[Frederick Marryat]] – ''Diary in America''
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===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")
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*[[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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*[[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]])
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