1847 in literature

The year 1847 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

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 - Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals
• 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