1846 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1846.
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1846 in literature
…writer and translator (died 1934) April 4 – Comte de Lautreamont (pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse), Uruguayan-born French poet and writer (died 1870) April 24 – Marcus Clarke, Australian novelist and poet (died 1881…
Luke Fildes – The Empty Chair (engraving). Fildes, the illustrator for Edwin Drood at the time of Charles Dickens's death, shows Dickens's empty chair in his study at Gads Hill Place. It appears in the Christmas edition of The Graphic and thousands of prints of it are sold.