1850 in literature - Definition

See also: 1849 in literature, other events of 1850, 1851 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) named Poet Laureate of England.
• Periodical Household Words begins publication
• Henrik Ibsen's first play, The Burial Mound, is produced

New Books

• Antonina - Wilkie Collins
• The Arabian Nights - Sir Richard Burton
• The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas, père
• Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects - Ivar Aasen
• Frank Fairleigh - Frank Smedley
• Linda - Caroline Lee Hentz
• A Month in the Country (play) - Ivan Turgenev
• The Peasant War in Germany - Friedrich Engels
• Rena, the Snowbird - Caroline Lee Hentz
• The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Sonnets from the Portuguese (Poetry) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Tales of City Life - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• Tristan le Roux - Alexandre Dumas, fils
• La Vendee - Anthony Trollope
• White-Jacket - Herman Melville
• The Wide, Wide World - Susan Warner

Births

• January 15 - Mihai Eminescu, poet
• June 27 - Lafcadio Hearn, writer
• June 27 - Ivan Vazov, poet, novelist and playwright
• August 5 - Guy de Maupassant, writer
• September 2 - Eugene Field, poet and essayist
• November 5 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet and journalist
• November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist

Deaths

• January 20 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, poet
• April 23 - William Wordsworth, poet
• May 31 - Giuseppe Giusti, poet
• July 19 - Sarah Margaret Fuller, writer
• August 18 - Honoré de Balzac, novelist
• August 22 - Nikolaus Lenau, poet
• December 24 - Frederic Bastiat, philosopher and author

Awards