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[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. April
William John Thoms (16 November 1803 – 15 August 1885) was a British writer credited with coining the term "folklore" in 1846. [1] Thoms' investigation of folklore and myth led to a later career of debunking longevity myths , and he was a pioneer demographer .
Nathaniel Currier 1846. The Drunkard's Progress: From the First Glass to the Grave is an 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier. It is a nine-step lebenstreppe on a stone arch depicting a man's journey through alcoholism. Through a series of vignettes it shows how a single drink starts an arc that ends in suicide. Below the structure, the ...
[1] Generally, most contemporary critics praised the collection and considered it better than Hawthorne's earlier collection, Twice-Told Tales. [ 6 ] Regarding the second edition, published in 1854, Hawthorne wrote to publisher James T. Fields that he no longer understood the messages he was sending in these stories.
Charles Dickens' novel Dombey and Son (serialisation begins 1 October) and novella The Battle of Life (c. December). Edward Lear's A Book of Nonsense (10 February). [1] The String of Pearls: a Romance, probably written by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest, begins serialisation, the first literary appearance of Sweeney Todd (21 November).
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1846.. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland).
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This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. \ Libraries established in 1846 (3 P) B. Book series introduced in 1846 (1 P)