1843 in literature

See also: 1842 in literature, other events of 1843, 1844 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• William Wordsworth (1770-1850), becomes Poet Laureate of England.

New Books

• The Banker's Wife - Catherine Gore
• Les Burgraves - Victor Hugo
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
• The Gold Bug - Edgar Allan Poe
• Handley Cross - Robert Smith Surtees
• The Last of the Barons - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• Le Mouchoir; an Autobiographical Romance - James Fenimore Cooper
• Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
• Monsieur Violet - Frederick Marryat
• Perils of the Nation - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
• Windsor Castle - William Harrison Ainsworth

Births

• April 15 - Henry James, writer (+ 1916)

Deaths

• June 6 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist

Awards