1849 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• 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
• - Charlotte Brontë
• Freedom and Necessity - Steven Brust and Emma Bull

• January 22 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (+ 1912)
• November 24 - Frances Hodgson Burnett writer (+ 1924)

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