1844 in literature - Definition

See also: 1843 in literature, other events of 1844, 1845 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Barry Lyndon - William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Chimes - Charles Dickens
• Condition of the Working Classes in England - Friedrich Engels
• Coningsby - Benjamin Disraeli
• Les Paysans - Honoré de Balzac
• Life of Arnold - Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
• Poems (poetry) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Settlers in Canada - Frederick Marryat
• Struwwelpeter - Heinrich Hoffmann
• The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas, père
• Tom Burke of Ours - Charles Lever
• Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas, père
• Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation - Robert Chambers
• The Wandering Jew - Eugène Sue
• The Wrongs of Women - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

Births

• March 30 - Paul Verlaine, lyric poet (+ 1896)
• April 16 - Anatole France, writer (+ 1924)

Deaths

• January 27 - Charles Nodier, writer

Awards