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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1850. ==Events== *January–April - ''The Germ'', periodical of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood edited by William Michael Rossetti, is published (four issues, the last two retitled ''Art and Poetry''). *March - The weekly ''Household Words'', "conducted by Charles Dickens", begins publication in London. *March 14 - Honoré de Balzac marries Ewelina Hańska at Berdyczów. The marriage lasts only until his death five months later. *Mid-March - Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical novel ''The Scarlet Letter'' is published by William Ticknor and James Thomas Fields in Boston, Massachusetts (where it is set), selling 2,500 copies in ten days. *May 1 - The earliest surviving mention of the composition of ''Moby-Dick'' is captured in a letter Herman Melville writes to Richard Henry Dana, Jr. *May (late) - Alfred Tennyson's poem ''In Memoriam A.H.H.'', written to commemorate the death of his friend and fellow poet Arthur Hallam in 1833, is published by Edward Moxon in London. The writer's anonymity is broken on June 1 by ''The Publishers' Circular''. *June 13 - Alfred Tennyson marries his childhood friend Emily Sellwood at Shiplake.〔 *July - William Wordsworth's ''The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem'', on which he has worked since 1798, is first published about 3 months after his death by Edward Moxon in London in 14 books, with the title supplied by the poet's widow, Mary. *August 5 - Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville meet for the first time, together with Oliver Wendell Holmes and publisher James Thomas Fields, on a picnic expedition to Monument Mountain (Berkshire County, Massachusetts). *November * *A new edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ''Poems'' is published by Chapman & Hall in London, including (in vol. 2) her ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' (written during her courtship by Robert Browning c.1845–46) of which the most famous will be no. 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.")〔 * *Salford Museum and Art Gallery first opens as "The Royal Museum & Public Library", the first unconditionally free public library in England.〔Established under the Museums Act 1845. (【引用サイトリンク】publisher=visitsalford.info )〕 *November 1 - Charles Dickens's novel ''David Copperfield'' concludes serial publication and (November 14) is first published complete in book form. *November 19 - Alfred Tennyson is named Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, succeeding William Wordsworth, only after Samuel Rogers has declined the offer because of his age〔(Oxford DNB theme: Poets laureate. )〕 and Tennyson is assured that birthday odes will not be required of him.〔 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「1850 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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