1848 in literature

See also: 1847 in literature, other events of 1848, 1849 in literature, list of years 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 Brontë
• 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 Brontë, writer

Awards