1850 in literature
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The year 1850 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) named Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, succeeding William Wordsworth.
- Periodical Household Words begins publication
- Henrik Ibsen's second play, The Burial Mound, is produced
[edit] New books
- Sir Richard Burton - The Arabian Nights
- Wilkie Collins - Antonina
- Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
- Alexandre Dumas, fils - Tristan le Roux
- Alexandre Dumas, père - The Black Tulip
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
- Caroline Lee Hentz
- Linda
- Rena, the Snowbird
- Herman Melville - White-Jacket
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Tales of City Life
- Frank Smedley - Frank Fairleigh
- Anthony Trollope - La Vendée
- Susan Warner - The Wide, Wide World
[edit] New drama
- Christian Friedrich Hebbel - Herodes and Mariamne
- Henrik Ibsen - Catilina (Ibsen's first play, not performed until 1881)
- Otto Ludwig - Der Erbförster
- Ivan Turgenev - A Month in the Country
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Ivar Aasen - Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Representative Men
- Friedrich Engels - The Peasant War in Germany
- Alexander Herzen - From Another Shore
- Washington Irving - Mahomet and His Successors
[edit] Births
- January 14 - Pierre Loti, novelist
- January 15 - Mihai Eminescu, poet
- June 27 - Lafcadio Hearn, writer
- June 27 - Ivan Vazov, poet, novelist and playwright
- August 5 - Guy de Maupassant, writer
- September 2 - Eugene Field, poet and essayist
- November 5 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet and journalist
- November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist
[edit] Deaths
- January 20 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, poet and dramatist
- April 7 - William Lisle Bowles, poet and critic
- April 23 - William Wordsworth, poet
- May 31 - Giuseppe Giusti, poet
- July 14 - August Neander, theologian
- July 19 - Sarah Margaret Fuller, writer
- August 18 - Honoré de Balzac, novelist
- August 22 - Nikolaus Lenau, poet
- November 4 - Gustav Schwab, author
- December 24 - Frédéric Bastiat, philosopher and author
