1848 in literature

The year 1848 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * The Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre is demolished.

New books

 * R M Ballantyne -Life in the Wilds of North America
 * Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
 * Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - Harold
 * William Carleton - The Emigrants of Ahadarra
 * Charles Dickens
 * Dombey and Son
 * The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
 * Alexandre Dumas, père
 * The Queen's Necklace
 * The Vicomte de Bragelonne
 * Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton
 * Geraldine Jewsbury - The Half Sisters
 * Julia Kavanagh - Madeleine, a Tale of Auvergne
 * Frederick Marryat
 * The Little Savage
 * Valerie
 * Henri Murger - Scènes de la vie de Bohème (The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter)
 * G. W. M. Reynolds
 * The Coral Island, or the Hereditary Curse
 * Wagner the Wehr-Wolf
 * George Sand - Francois the Waif
 * William Makepeace Thackeray
 * The Book of Snobs
 * Pendennis

New drama

 * Émile Augier - L'Aventurière
 * Alfred de Musset - André del Sarto

Poetry

 * William Edmonstoune Aytoun - Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers
 * James Russell Lowell - A Fable for Critics, The Biglow Papers

Non-fiction

 * Jacob Grimm - Geschichte der deutschen Sprache
 * Benjamin Randell Harris - The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
 * Ephraim George Squier & Edwin Hamilton Davis - Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley
 * Søren Kierkegaard - The Point of View of My Work as an Author

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