1848 in literature

Events

New Books

• The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter[?] - Henri Murger[?]
• Dombey and Son[?] - Charles Dickens
• The Emigrants of Ahadarra[?] - William Carleton
• Francois the Waif[?] - George Sand
• Harold[?] - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain[?] - Charles Dickens
• Life in the Wilds of North America[?] - RM Ballantyne
• The Little Savage[?] - Frederick Marryat
• The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas, père
• Mary Barton[?] - Elizabeth Gaskell
• Pendennis[?] - William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Queen's Necklace[?] - Alexandre Dumas, père
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
• Valerie[?] - Frederick Marryat
• Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

Births

• February 5 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, writer (+ 1907)
• February 16 - Octave Mirbeau, novelist (+ 1917)
• February 24 - Grant Allen, writer (+ 1899)

Deaths

• January 19 - Isaac D'Israeli, author
• July 4 - François-René de Chateaubriand, writer
• August 9 - Frederick Marryat, novelist
• December 19 - Emily Bronte, writer

Awards