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January 3 – The American author Edgar Allan Poe issues the final edition of the Broadway Journal , a journal he owned for just a few months.[1]
January 15 – Fyodor Dostoevsky 's first original novel, Poor Folk (Бедные люди, Bednye Lyudi ), is published in the St. Petersburg Collection .
January 21 – The Daily News , edited by Charles Dickens , first appears in London . After 17 issues Dickens hands over as editor to his friend John Forster . It continues until 1930.
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c. May 22 – The Brontë sisters ' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell , appears in London.[3] It sells only two copies in the first year.[4]
June 27 – Charlotte Brontë completes the manuscript of her novel The Professor . It is offered to several publishers during the year but rejected.[4]
August 15 – The Scott Monument to Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh (Scotland) is inaugurated.[5]
September 12 – The poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church , London, and depart for the continent a week later.[6]
October 1 – Serial publication of Charles Dickens 's Dombey and Son begins.[7]
November 21 – The String of Pearls : a Romance , probably written by James Malcolm Rymer , begins serialization in Britain. This is the first literary appearance of Sweeney Todd .[8]
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March 17 – Kate Greenaway , English book illustrator and writer (died 1901 )
March 20 – Rebecca Richardson Joslin , American non-fiction writer (died 1934 )
March 25 – Helen Zimmern , German-born English writer and translator (died 1934 )
April 4 – Comte de Lautreamont (pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse), Uruguayan-born French poet and writer (died 1870 )
April 24 – Marcus Clarke , Australian novelist and poet (died 1881 )
May 5 – Henryk Sienkiewicz , Polish novelist (died 1916 )
May 25 – Naim Frashëri , Albanian poet (died 1900 )
June 3 – Estelle Mendell Amory , American educator and author (died 1923 )
June 30 – Frances Margaret Milne , Irish-born American author and librarian (died 1910 )
July 5 – Christian Reid (pen name of Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan), American author (died 1920 )
August 2 – Lucy Clifford (née Lucy Lane), English novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (died 1929 )
August 5
September 3 – Emma Shaw Colcleugh , American author (died 1940 )
October 1 – John Cadvan Davies , Welsh poet and Wesleyan Methodist minister (died 1923 )[13]
October 21 – Edmondo De Amicis , Italian novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer (died 1908 )
unknown date – Mary Foot Seymour , American businesswoman and writer (died 1893 )[14]
January 6 – Lewis Goldsmith , Anglo-French journalist (born c. 1763)
February 9 – Henry Gally Knight , English writer and traveler (born 1786 )
March 10 – Harriette Wilson , English memoirist (born 1786 )[15]
June 24 – Jan Frans Willems , Flemish poet and political activist (born 1793 )
July 12 – Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna , English novelist (born 1790 )
September 4 – Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy , French dramatist (born 1764 )[16]
November 23 – George Darley , Irish poet, novelist, and critic (born 1795 )
December 13 – Pasquale Galluppi , Italian philosopher (born 1770 )
Marjorie Stone, "Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806–1861)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, October 2008.
Leon Litvack (1999). Charles Dickens's Dombey and son : an annotated bibliography . AMS Press. p. 20. ISBN 780404614997 .
Smith, Helen R. (2002). New light on Sweeney Todd . London: Jarndyce. p. 28.
Alexandre Dumas (2003). The Knight of Maison-Rouge: A Novel of Marie Antoinette . Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 9781588363350 .
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 .
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan's Revenge: The Life of Harriette Wilson, the Woman Who Blackmailed the King .
Pichois, Claude. "Pour une biographie d'Étienne Jouy", Revue des sciences humaines (April–June 1965:227–252; given a synopsis in Furman, N., La Revue Des Deux Mondes Et Le Romantisme (1831–1848) 1974:12 note 5.