1848 in literature

1848 in literature

The year 1848 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*The Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre is demolished.

New books

*R M Ballantyne -"Life in the Wilds of North America"
*Anne Brontë - "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"
*Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - "Harold"
*William Carleton - "The Emigrants of Ahadarra"
*Charles Dickens
**"Dombey and Son"
**"The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain"
*Alexandre Dumas, père
**"The Queen's Necklace"
**"The Vicomte de Bragelonne"
*Elizabeth Gaskell - "Mary Barton"
*Geraldine Jewsbury - "The Half Sisters"
*Julia Kavanagh - "Madeleine, a Tale of Auvergne"
*Frederick Marryat
**"The Little Savage"
**"Valerie"
*Henri Murger - "Scènes de la vie de Bohème (The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter)"
*G. W. M. Reynolds
**"The Coral Island, or the Hereditary Curse"
**"Wagner the Wehr-Wolf"
*George Sand - "Francois the Waif"
*William Makepeace Thackeray
**"The Book of Snobs"
**"Pendennis"

New drama

*Émile Augier - "L'Aventurière"
*Alfred de Musset - "André del Sarto"

Poetry

*William Edmonstoune Aytoun - "Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers"
*James Russell Lowell - "A Fable for Critics", "The Biglow Papers"

Non-fiction

*Jacob Grimm - "Geschichte der deutschen Sprache"
*Benjamin Randell Harris - "The Recollections of Rifleman Harris"
*Ephraim George Squier & Edwin Hamilton Davis - "Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley"

Births

* February 5 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, writer (+ 1907)
* February 16 - Octave Mirbeau, novelist (+ 1917)
* February 24 - Grant Allen, writer (+ 1899)

Deaths

* January 19 - Isaac D'Israeli, author
* July 4 - François-René de Chateaubriand, writer
* August 9 - Frederick Marryat, novelist
* December 19 - Emily Brontë, writer

Awards

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