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Anne , Emily , and Charlotte Brontë, by their brother Branwell (who has painted himself out of the picture)
June
Elizabeth Gaskell 's first published work of fiction, the story "Life in Manchester: Libbie Marsh's Three Eras", appears in Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress [2] under the pen name Cotton Mather Mills.
Hans Christian Andersen begins his first visit to Britain, during which he meets Charles Dickens .
June 10 – The fictional date at the end of Anne Brontë 's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is presumed to be that of the novel's completion.[3]
July – The London publisher Thomas Cautley Newby accepts for publication Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë 's Agnes Grey .[3]
August 7 –24 – Charlotte Brontë completes Jane Eyre at Haworth and sends the manuscript to her publisher, who has rejected The Professor .[4]
September – Varney the Vampire ; or, the Feast of Blood , probably written by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Preskett Prest , having been published serially since 1845 as a 'penny dreadful ' by Edward Lloyd in London, is first issued in book format. It introduces many of the tropes of vampire fiction .[1]
September 16 – William Shakespeare 's house of birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in England is bought by the United Shakespeare Company for preservation.[5] This year also, Schiller 's house in Weimar is opened to the public as a museum.
October 19 – Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre is published (as "an autobiography, edited by Currer Bell") in London by Smith, Elder & Co. in 3 volumes.[3]
November – Dmitry Grigorovich 's anti-serfdom novel Anton Goremyka («Антон-горемыка», "Luckless Anton") is published in Sovremennik with its politically sensitive last scene rewritten by a censor.
November 1 – John Maddison Morton 's one-act farce Box and Cox (adapted from the French) opens at the Lyceum Theatre, London (under the new management of Madame Vestris and her husband Charles James Mathews ) with John Pritt Harley and John Baldwin Buckstone in the title roles.
December 14 – Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë 's Agnes Grey are published in a three-volume set under the pen names of Ellis and Acton Bell respectively, in London by T. C. Newby .[6] Wuthering Heights will be Emily's only published novel, as she dies a year later, aged 30.
unknown date – The London publisher E. Churton brings out the first six of George Sand 's books to be issued in English, as translated by Matilda Hays , Eliza Ashurst and Rev. Edmund Larken .[7]
Children and young people
January 6 – Milovan Glišić , Serbian dramatist and translator (died 1908 )
January 8 – Matei Donici , Bessarabian Romanian poet and professional soldier (died 1921 )
January 9 – Oyyarathu Chandu Menon , Indian Malayalam-language novelist (died 1899 )
January 27 – Ella Dietz , American actress and author (died 1920 )
April 2 – Flora Annie Steel (Flora Annie Webster), English writer (died 1929 )
April 7 – Jens Peter Jacobsen , Danish novelist (died 1885 )
April 10 – Joseph Pulitzer , Hungarian American newspaperman (died 1911 )
April 10 – Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop , American social reformer and autobiographer (died 1892 )
June 16 – Luella Dowd Smith , American educator and author (died 1941 )
August 20 – Bolesław Prus (Aleksander Głowacki), Polish novelist (died 1912 )
September 2 – George Robert Sims , English writer (died 1922 )
September 22 – Alice Meynell (Alice Thompson), English poet (died 1922 )
October 1 – Annie Besant , English women's rights activist, writer and orator (died 1933 )[8]
October 3 – Lilian Whiting , American journalist, editor, and author (died 1942 )[9]
October 18 – E. E. Brown , American author and artist (year of death unknown)[10]
October 19 – Aurilla Furber , American author, editor, and activist (died 1898 )
November 8 – Bram Stoker , Irish novelist and theater manager (died 1912 )[11]
December 17 – Émile Faguet , French writer and critic (died 1916 )
December 26 – Hugh Conway , English novelist (died 1885 )
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February 8 – George Walker , English Gothic novelist (born 1772 )
April 23 – Erik Gustaf Geijer , Swedish historian, poet, philosopher, and composer (born 1783 )
May 4 – Alexandre Vinet , Swiss critic and theologian (born 1797 )
August 14 – Frans Michael Franzén , Swedish writer (born 1772 )
August 28 – Eugène Bourgeois , French dramatist (born 1818 )
September 16 – Grace Aguilar , English novelist (born 1816 )
October 13 – Johann Heinrich van Ess , German theologian (born 1772 )
October 22 – Henriette Herz , German salon hostess (born 1764 )[13]
December 14 – Dorothy Ann Thrupp , hymnwriter and translator (born 1779 )
Alexander, Christine; Smith, Margaret (2006). The Oxford Companion to the Brontës . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-861432-6 . Tilby, Michael (2000). "George Sand" . In Classe, Olive (ed.). Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English . Vol. 2. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 1223–7. ISBN 978-1-884964-36-7 . Belford, Barbara (2002). Bram Stoker and the Man Who Was Dracula . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-306-81098-5 .