1849 in literature
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See also: 1848 in literature, other events of 1849, 1850 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- La Tribune des Peuples, a pan-European romantic nationalist periodical, is published between March and November by Adam Mickiewicz.
- Who's Who is published for the first time.
New books
- Alton Locke - Charles Kingsley
- The Bronze Statue - G.W.M. Reynolds
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- The Diamond and the Pearl - Catherine Gore
- The Lancashire Witches - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Little Fadette - George Sand
- Mardi - Herman Melville
- Memoirs From Beyond the Grave - François-René de Chateaubriand
- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
- The Oregon Trail - Francis Parkman
- Redburn - Herman Melville
- The Rifle Rangers - Mayne Reid
- Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
- Freedom and Necessity - Steven Brust and Emma Bull
New drama
- Christian Friedrich Hebbel - Der Rubin
- Eugène Scribe - Adrienne Lecouvreur
Poetry
- Matthew Arnold - The Strayed Reveller
Non-fiction
- John Mitchell Kemble - History of the Saxons in England
Births
- January 22 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (d. 1912)
- August 23 - William Henley, British poet (d. 1903)
- November 24 - Frances Hodgson Burnett writer (d. 1924)
Deaths
- January 6 - Hartley Coleridge, poet and critic
- February 8 - France Prešeren, poet
- May 22 - Maria Edgeworth, writer
- May 28 - Anne Brontë, writer
- July 7 - Goffredo Mameli, poet
- July 25 - James Kenney, dramatist
- October 7 - Edgar Allan Poe, author
Awards
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