1850 in literature

Events

• Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) named Poet Laureate of England.

New Books

• Antonina[?] - Wilkie Collins
• The Arabian Nights - Sir Richard Burton
• The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas, père
• Linda[?] - Caroline Lee Hentz[?]
• A Month in the Country[?] - 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

• February 8 - Kate Chopin (+ 1904)
• August 5 - Guy de Maupassant (+ 1893)
• November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson (+ 1894)

Deaths

• July 19 - Sarah Margaret Fuller[?], writer
• August 18 - Honore de Balzac

Awards