1848 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

[edit] 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 o Snobs
  • Pendennis

[edit] New drama

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

[edit] Poetry

• William Edmonstoune Aytoun - Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers

[edit] 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

[edit] Births

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

[edit] Deaths

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

[edit] Awards