1844 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1844.

Events

March–July – Alexandre Dumas, père's historical adventure story The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is serialized in the Paris newspaper Le Siècle.
August 28 – Alexandre Dumas, père's near-recent historical adventure story The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) begins serialization in the Paris newspaper Journal des débats (continuing through January 1846); book publication also begins this year.
October – George W. M. Reynolds begins publication of the bestselling "penny dreadful" city mysteries series The Mysteries of London.
Autumn – Margaret Fuller joins Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune as literary critic, becoming the first full-time female book reviewer in American journalism.
December 2 – Emily Brontë writes the poem "A Death-Scene".^[1]
The first volumes of the Patrologia Latina, a 217-volume collection of works in Latin, are published in Paris by Jacques Paul Migne. The initial volumes include the writings of Tertullian and Cyprian, among other authors.

March 30 – Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet (died 1896)
April 2 – George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher (died 1930)
April 16 – Anatole France, French writer (died 1924)
July 22 – William Archibald Spooner, English academic and instigator of spoonerisms (died 1930)
July 28 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (died 1889)
August 29 – Edward Carpenter, English socialist poet and philosopher (died 1929)
September 9 – Maurice Thompson, American novelist (died 1901)
October 15 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (died 1900)
October 22 or 23 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (died 1923)
October 23 – Robert Bridges, English poet (died 1930)
October 25 – Joseph Marmette, Canadian novelist and historian (died 1895)
October 27 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist (died 1916)
Unknown dates
- Mrs. Lovett Cameron (Caroline "Emily" Sharp), English romantic novelist (died 1921)
- Alice Diehl (née Mangold), English novelist and concert pianist (died 1912)
- Janet Milne Rae, Scottish novelist (died 1933)
- Evelyn Whitaker, English children's writer (died 1929)

January 4 – Maria Hack, English educational writer (born 1777)
January 27 – Charles Nodier, French novelist (born 1780)
February 11 – Tamenaga Shunsui, Japanese novelist (born 1790)
February 12 – Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek, Czech dramatist (born 1783)
May 2 – William Thomas Beckford, English novelist and travel writer (born 1760)
June 11 – Urban Jarnik, Slovene poet and historian (born 1784)
June 15 – Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (born 1777)
July 11 – Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet and philosopher (born 1800)
August 14 – Henry Cary, Gibraltar-born Irish author and translator (born 1772)
September 18 – John Sterling, Scottish novelist and poet (born 1806)
October 28 – Sándor Kisfaludy, Hungarian poet and dramatist (born 1772)
November 4 – Barbara Hofland, English children's and schoolbook author (born 1770)
November 21 – Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (born 1769)

↑ Hatfield, C. W., ed. (1941). The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë. Columbia University Press.

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