1847 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Poetry 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Awards

[edit] Events

[edit] New books

• Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
• Castles in The Air - Catherine Gore
• The Children of the New Forest - Frederick Marryat
• Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals - G.W.M. Reynolds
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
• Martin the Foundling - Eugène Sue
• Omoo - Herman Melville
• Le Péché de M. Antoine - George Sand
• The Seven Deadly Sins - Eugène Sue
• The System - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
• Tancred - Benjamin Disraeli
• Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
• William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave - William Wells Brown
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

[edit] Poetry

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Evangeline

[edit] Non-fiction

• William H. Prescott - History of the Conquest of Peru

[edit] Births

• April 10 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaperman (+ 1911)
• September 22 - Alice Meynell, poet (+ 1922)
• November 8 - Bram Stoker, writer (+ 1912)

[edit] Deaths

• May 4 - Alexandre Vinet, critic and theologian
• September 16 - Grace Aguilar, novelist

[edit] Awards