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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1843.

Events

January
- Serial publication begins of Charles Dickens' picaresque novel The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Chapman & Hall in London. In the July chapters, he lands his hero in the United States.
- Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" appears in The Pioneer in Boston and his poem "The Conqueror Worm" in Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia.
February – Macmillan Publishers is founded in London by the Scottish brothers Daniel and Alexander Macmillan.
April 4 – William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, after the death of Robert Southey on March 21. He is reassured that it is seen as a purely honorific position.^[1]
June 21 – Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Gold-Bug" begins to be serialized in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper as the winning entry in a competition, earning Poe a $100 prize. It will be widely reprinted and adapted for theater. It popularizes cryptography.
July – Margaret Fuller's "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women" appears in The Dial magazine in the United States. It will later be expanded into a book, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845).
August 19 – Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic short story "The Black Cat" is first published in The Saturday Evening Post.
August 22 – The Theatres Act in the United Kingdom ends a virtual monopoly of theatrical performances held by the patent theatres and encourages development of popular entertainment.^[2]
September – Ada Lovelace (Byron's daughter) translates and expands Menabrea's notes on Charles Babbage's analytical engine, including an algorithm for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers, seen as the world's first computer program.^[3]^[4]^[5]
October – Anna Atkins begins publishing Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, a collection of contact printed cyanotype photograms of algae, to form the first book illustrated with photographs.^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]
December 17 – Publication of Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Chapman & Hall is made at his expense. It introduces the character Ebenezer Scrooge. Released on December 19, the first printing sells out by Christmas Eve.^[10]
Christmas – Thomas Hood's poem "The Song of the Shirt" appears in Punch.^[11]
unknown dates
- The Routledge publishing firm is founded in London by the Cumberland-born bookseller George Routledge.
- The steam-powered rotary printing press is invented by Richard March Hoe in the United States.^[12]

New books

Fiction

William Harrison Ainsworth – Windsor Castle
Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Last of the Barons
James Fenimore Cooper – Le Mouchoir; an Autobiographical Romance
Charles Dickens
- A Christmas Carol
- Martin Chuzzlewit
Alexandre Dumas, père – Georges^[13]
Catherine Gore – The Banker's Wife
Léon Gozlan – Aristide Froissart^[14]
Victor Hugo – Les Burgraves
Søren Kierkegaard – Diary of a Seducer (literary novel included in Either/Or)
John Neal — Ruth Elder^[15]
Frederick Marryat – Monsieur Violet
Eugène Sue – The Mysteries of Paris
Robert Smith Surtees – Handley Cross
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna – Perils of the Nation

Children and young people

Hans Christian Andersen – New Fairy Tales. First Volume. First Collection (Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Første Samling) comprising "The Angel" ("Engelen"), "The Nightingale" ("Nattergalen"), "The Sweethearts; or, The Top and the Ball" ("Kjærestefolkene [Toppen og bolden]") and "The Ugly Duckling" ("Den grimme ælling")

Drama

Eusebio Asquerino – Casada, vírgen y mártir
V. A. Bhave – Sita Swayamvar
Théophile Gautier – Un Voyage en Espagne
Nikolai Gogol – The Gamblers
James Sheridan Knowles – The Secretary
W. T. Moncrieff – The Scamps of London

Poetry

Thomas Hood – "The Song of the Shirt"
Richard Henry Horne – Orion: an epic poem
Edgar Allan Poe – "The Conqueror Worm"

Non-fiction

Leon Battista Alberti – I Libri della famiglia
Anna Atkins – Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions
Paul Rudolf von Bilguer – Handbuch des Schachspiels (Handbook of Chess)
George Borrow – The Bible in Spain; or, the Journey, Adventures, and Imprisonment of an English-man in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
James Braid – Neurypnology: or the Rationale of Nervous Sleep
Thomas Carlyle – Past and Present
Marquis de Custine – La Russie en 1839 (Russia in 1839)
Benjamin Hall Kennedy – Elementary Latin Primer
Søren Kierkegaard (as Johannes de Silentio) – Fear and Trembling (Frygt og Bæven)
Thomas Babington Macaulay – Critical and Historical Essays
Moses Margoliouth – The Fundamental Principles of Modern Judaism Investigated
John Stuart Mill – A System of Logic
William H. Prescott – History of the Conquest of Mexico
John Ruskin – Modern Painters, vol. 1
Rev. J. M. Wainwright – Book of Common Prayer (1843 illustrated version)
Wei Yuan and others (comp.) – Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms (海國圖志, Hǎiguó Túzhì)

Births

January 2 – Gabriel Compayré, French scholar and politician (died 1913)^[16]
January 14 – Hans Forssell, Swedish historian (died 1901)
January 17 – Florence Montgomery, English novelist and children's writer (died 1923)
January 24 – Evald Tang Kristensen, Danish author and collector of folklore (died 1929)
January 28 – Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet and linguist (died 1890)
February 6 – Frederic W. H. Myers, British poet (died 1901)
February 24
- Teófilo Braga, Portuguese poet, playwright and politician (died 1924)^[17]
- Violet Fane (Mary Montgomerie Lamb), English novelist, poet and essayist (died 1905)
March 5 – Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, French writer (died 1925)^[18]
March 11 – Harald Høffding, Danish philosopher and theologian (died 1931)
March 29 – Paul Ferrier, French dramatist and librettist (died 1920)^[19]
March 30 – Florence Ashton Marshall, English composer and conductor, biographer of Handel (died 1922)
April 15
- Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, American author, reformer, and philanthropist (died 1915)
- Henry James, American-born fiction writer (died 1916)^[20]
April 25 – Constance Cary Harrison, American playwright and novelist (died 1920)
April 29 – Pedro Américo, Brazilian novelist, poet, scientist, artist, essayist, philosopher, politician and professor (died 1905)
May 3 – Edward Dowden, Irish poet and critic (died 1913)
May 10 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (died 1920)^[21]
May 12 – Thomas William Rhys Davids, British linguist and scholar (died 1922)^[22]
May 25 – Christabel Rose Coleridge, English novelist and editor (died 1921)
June 9 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian pacifist writer (died 1914)^[23]
June 26 – Paul Arène, French poet and author (died 1896)^[24]
July 5 – Mandell Creighton, English bishop and historian (died 1901)
August 9 – N. D. Popescu-Popnedea, Romanian novelist, folklorist, archivist and almanac compiler (died 1921)
September 26 – James Rice, English novelist (died 1882)
October 25 – Gleb Uspensky, Russian writer (died 1902)^[25]
November – Lucy M. Hall, American physician and writer (died 1907)
December 7 – Helena Nyblom, née Roed, Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales (died 1926)
December 10 – Isabella Fyvie Mayo, Scottish poet, novelist, and reformer (died 1914)
December 21 – Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealand poet (died 1898)
December 23 – Ada Langworthy Collier, American author (died 1919)^[26]
December 24 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (died 1886)^[27]
December 29 – Princess Elisabeth of Wied ("Carmen Sylva"), German-born queen consort and writer (died 1916)
unknown dates
- Mary Bathurst Deane, English novelist (died 1940)
- Lillian Rozell Messenger, American poet (died 1921)^[28]

Deaths

January 11 – Francis Scott Key, American poet (born 1779)^[29]
February 10 – Richard Carlile, English writer and agitator for suffrage and freedom of the press (born 1790)
February 22 – Mary Hays, English feminist writer (born 1759)
March 21 – Robert Southey, English poet and Poet Laureate (born 1774)
May 12 – Charlotte von Kalb, German writer (born 1761)
May 19 – Charles James Apperley ("Nimrod"), English sporting writer (born 1777)
May 28 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (born 1758)
June 6 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist (born 1770)^[30]
July 4 – John Basset, writer on Cornish mining (born 1791)
July 9 – Karoline Pichler, Austrian novelist (born 1769)
July 31 – William Thomas Lowndes, English bibliographer (born c.1798)
August 10 – Jakob Friedrich Fries, German philosopher (born 1773)
September 4 – Léopoldine Hugo, daughter of French novelist Victor Hugo (b. 1824)^[31]
October 21 – William Pinnock, English writer, publisher and bookseller (born 1782)
November 25 – Ellen Pickering, English novelist (born 1801 or 1802)
November 28 – József Ficzkó, Burgenland Croatian writer (born 1772)
December 11 – Casimir Delavigne, French poet and dramatist (born 1793)

Awards

Newdigate Prize – Matthew Arnold, "Cromwell"

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