1847 in literature

1847 in literature

The year 1847 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

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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"
*Benjamin Disraeli - "Tancred"
*William Makepeace Thackeray - "Vanity Fair"
*Alexandre Dumas, père, "The Vicomte de Bragelonne" ("Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tard", 1847): When published in English it was usually split into three parts: "The Vicomte de Bragelonne", "Louise de la Valliere", and "The Man in the Iron Mask", of which the last part is the best known.

Poetry

*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - "Evangeline"
*Edgar Allan Poe - "Ulalume"

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

Awards

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