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The year 1847 in literature involved some significant new books.
Contents |
Events
New books
- Honoré de Balzac - Le Cousin Pons
- Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey
- Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
- Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
- Catherine Gore - Castles in The Air
- Frederick Marryat - The Children of the New Forest
- Herman Melville - Omoo
- G. W. M. Reynolds -
- George Sand - Le Péché de M. Antoine
- Eugène Sue
- Martin the Foundling
- The Seven Deadly Sins
- Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - The System
- Tancred - Benjamin Disraeli
- William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
Poetry
Non-fiction
- William Wells Brown - William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
- Søren Kierkegaard - Works of Love
- Karl Marx - The Poverty of Philosophy
- William H. Prescott - History of the Conquest of Peru
Births
- April 10 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaperman (+ 1911)
- September 22 - Alice Meynell, poet (+ 1922)
- November 8 - Bram Stoker, writer (+ 1912)
Deaths
- May 4 - Alexandre Vinet, critic and theologian
- September 16 - Grace Aguilar, novelist
