1843 in literature

The year 1843 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• William Wordsworth (1770-1850) becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

New books

• William Harrison Ainsworth - Windsor Castle
• Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Last of the Barons
• James Fenimore Cooper - Le Mouchoir; an Autobiographical Romance
• Charles Dickens
• A Christmas Carol
• Martin Chuzzlewit
• Alexandre Dumas, père - Georges
• Catherine Gore - The Banker's Wife
• Léon Gozlan - Aristide Froissart
• Victor Hugo - Les Burgraves
• Søren Kierkegaard - Diary of a Seducer (a literary novel included in Either/Or)
• Frederick Marryat - Monsieur Violet
• Edgar Allan Poe - "The Gold-Bug" (short story)
• Eugène Sue - The Mysteries of Paris
• Robert Smith Surtees - Handley Cross
• Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - Perils of the Nation

New drama

• Eusebio Asquerino - Casada, vírgen y mártir
• Nikolai Gogol - The Gamblers
• W. T. Moncrieff - The Scamps of London

Poetry

• Thomas Hood - Song of the Shirt
• Richard Henry Horne - Orion
• Edgar Allan Poe - The Conqueror Worm
• Alfred Tennyson - Morte d'Arthur

Non-fiction

• Paul Rudolf von Bilguer - Handbuch des Schachspiels (Handbook of Chess)
• Thomas Carlyle - Past and Present
• John Stuart Mill - A System of Logic
• William H. Prescott - History of the Conquest of Mexico
• Johannes de Silentio - Fear and Trembling (Frygt og Bæven)

Births

• January 14 - Hans Forssell, historian (+ 1901)
• April 15 - Henry James, writer (+ 1916)
• May 3 - Edward Dowden, poet and critic (+ 1913)
• July 5 - Mandell Creighton, historian (+ 1901)
• December 21 - Thomas Bracken, poet (+ 1898)
• December 29 - Carmen Sylva (+ 1916)

Deaths

• January 11 - Francis Scott Key, poet
• March 21 - Robert Southey, poet
• May 19 - Charles James Apperley ("Nimrod"), sports writer
• May 28 - Noah Webster, lexicographer
• June 6 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist
• July 9 - Karoline Pichler, novelist
• July 31 - William Thomas Lowndes, bibliographer
• August 10 - Jakob Friedrich Fries, philosopher
• October 21 - William Pinnock, publisher, bookseller and author
• December 11 - Casimir Delavigne, poet and dramatist
• date unknown - John Murray, publisher

Awards