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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1840. ==Events== *June - An amnesty to celebrate the accession of King Frederick William IV of Prussia results in novelist Fritz Reuter being freed from the fortress of Dömitz after two years' imprisonment on a charge of high treason. *July 6 - Novelists Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray independently attend the hanging outside Newgate Prison in London of the murderer François Benjamin Courvoisier, who blames the influence of W. Harrison Ainsworth's Newgate novel ''Jack Sheppard'' (which concluded serialization in ''Bentley's Miscellany'' in February) for his crime.〔 Thackeray writes the experience up as "(Going to See a Man Hanged )" in this month's issue of ''Fraser's Magazine'' (22: 150-158; repr. in ''The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray'' (1869) (London: Smith, Elder & Co.) 15:386); Dickens in ''The Daily News'' in February 1846.〕 *August 10 - Fortsas hoax: Bibliophiles gather in Binche, Belgium for the auction of 52 meticulously-catalogued unique books from the collection of the late Comte de Fortsas. The Count, the books and the auction prove to be entirely fictitious. *The Percy Society is established in Britain as a text publication society to produce scholarly editions of early works in English. *William Martin publishes the first edition of ''Peter Parley's Annual'', a periodical for children in imitation of the earlier American works by Samuel Griswold Goodrich. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1840 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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