1847 in literature
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See also: 1846 in literature, other events of 1847, 1848 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
- Castles in The Air - Catherine Gore
- The Children of the New Forest - Frederick Marryat
- Cousin Bette - Honoré de Balzac
- Evangeline - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
- Martin the Foundling - Eugène Sue
- Omoo - Herman Melville
- The Seven Deadly Sins - Eugène Sue
- The System - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
- Tancred - Benjamin Disraeli
- William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave - William Wells Brown
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Births
- April 10 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaperman (+ 1911)
- September 22 - Alice Meynell, poet (+ 1922)
- November 8 - Bram Stoker, writer (+ 1912)