1849 in literature - Definition

See also: 1848 in literature, other events of 1849, 1850 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
• The Diamond and the Pearl - Catherine Gore
• The Lancashire Witches - William Harrison Ainsworth
• Little Fadette - George Sand
• Mardi - Herman Melville
• Memoirs From Beyond the Grave - François-René de Chateaubriand
• On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
• The Oregon Trail - Francis Parkman
• Redburn - Herman Melville
• The Rifle Rangers - Mayne Reid
• Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
• Freedom and Necessity - Steven Brust and Emma Bull

Births

• January 22 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (d. 1912)
• August 23 - William Henley, British poet (d. 1903)
• November 24 - Frances Hodgson Burnett writer (d. 1924)

Deaths

• May 22 - Maria Edgeworth, writer
• May 28 - Anne Brontë, writer
• October 7 - Edgar Allan Poe, author

Awards