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The year 1847 in literature involved some significant events and new literature.
Events
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edit- 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 - Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals
- George Sand - Le Péché de M. Antoine
- Eugène Sue
- Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - The System
- Benjamin Disraeli - Tancred
- William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
Poetry
edit- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poems
- Walter Savage Landor - The Hellenics
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Evangeline
- Henry Francis Lyte - Abide with Me
- Edgar Allan Poe - Ulalume
- Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Princess, including "Tears, Idle Tears"
Non-fiction
edit- 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
edit- April 10 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaperman (died 1911)
- September 22 - Alice Meynell, poet (died 1922)
- November 8 - Bram Stoker, writer (died 1912)
- December 1 - Julia A. Moore, American poet famed for her notoriously bad poetry (died 1920)
Deaths
edit- May 4 - Alexandre Vinet, critic and theologian (born 1797)
- September 10 - Richard Henry Wilde (born 1789)
- September 16 - Grace Aguilar, novelist (born 1816)
- November 20 - Henry Francis Lyte (born 1793)
- Date unknown