1847 in literature

The year 1847 in literature involved some significant new books.

New books

 * Honoré de Balzac - Le Cousin Pons
 * Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey
 * Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
 * Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
 * Catherine Gore - Castles in The Air
 * Frederick Marryat - The Children of the New Forest
 * Herman Melville - Omoo
 * G.W.M. Reynolds - Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals
 * George Sand - Le Péché de M. Antoine
 * Eugène Sue
 * Martin the Foundling
 * The Seven Deadly Sins
 * Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - The System
 * Benjamin Disraeli - Tancred
 * William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
 * Alexandre Dumas, père, The Vicomte de Bragelonne (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tard, 1847): When published in English it was usually split into three parts: The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask, of which the last part is the best known.

Poetry

 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Evangeline
 * Edgar Allan Poe - Ulalume

Non-fiction

 * William Wells Brown - William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
 * Søren Kierkegaard - Works of Love
 * Karl Marx - The Poverty of Philosophy
 * William H. Prescott - History of the Conquest of Peru

Births

 * April 10 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaperman (+ 1911)
 * September 22 - Alice Meynell, poet (+ 1922)
 * November 8 - Bram Stoker, writer  (+  1912)

Deaths

 * May 4 - Alexandre Vinet, critic and theologian
 * September 16 - Grace Aguilar, novelist