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4 unusual facts about 1850 in literature


Anne Abbott

In July 1850, Abbott reviewed Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter for the North American Review, declaring she liked the preface better than the tale.

It's a Family Affair-We'll Settle It Ourselves

It was his first major work, written in 1849 and published in the No.6 (March, book 2) 1850 Moskvityanin issue.

The Simpleton

The Simpleton (Тюфя′к, Tyufyak - also: The Muff) is the debut novel by Alexei Pisemsky, written in the late 1840 and first published in 1850 by Moskvityanin magazine's October and November issues.

White-Jacket

White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War (1850) is the fifth novel by American writer Herman Melville first published in England on January 23 by Richard Bentley and in the U.S. on March 21 by Harper & Brothers.



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