1846 in literature

The year 1846 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * First publication of the Daily News, edited by Charles Dickens.
 * American author Edgar Allan Poe prints the final edition of the Broadway Journal, a journal he owned for only a few months, with the final issue dated January 3, 1846. Poe also publishes "The Philosophy of Composition".
 * Mary Howitt's Wonderful Stories for Children is the first English translation of works by Hans Christian Andersen.

New books

 * Honoré de Balzac - Cousin Bette
 * Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Children of the Night
 * James Fenimore Cooper - The Redskins
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Double: A Petersburg Poem
 * Alexandre Dumas, père
 * The Chevalier of the Maison Rouge
 * La Dame de Montsoreau
 * Memoirs of a Physician
 * József Eötvös - The Village Notary
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne - Mosses from an Old Manse
 * Mór Jókai - Weekdays
 * Frederick Marryat - The Privateersman
 * Herman Melville - Typee
 * George Sand - The Devil's Pond

New drama

 * Carolina Coronado - El cuadro de la esperanza

Poetry

 * Gottfried Keller - Gedichte
 * Edward Lear - Book of Nonsense
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Belfry of Bruges

Non-fiction

 * Hans Christian Andersen - Fairy Tale of My Life (autobiography)
 * Charles Dickens - Pictures from Italy
 * Søren Kierkegaard - Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
 * Theodor Waitz - Grundlegung der Psychologie (Foundation of Psychology)
 * William Whewell - Elements of Morality

Births

 * April 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer (+ 1870)
 * May 5 - Henryk Sienkiewicz Polish novelist (+ 1916)
 * May 25 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet

Deaths

 * January 6 - Lewis Goldsmith, journalist
 * February 9 - Henry Gally Knight, author of "Oriental tales"
 * July 12 - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, novelist
 * December 13 - Pasquale Galluppi, philosopher
 * date unknown - Harriette Wilson, memoirist