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Encyclopedia > 1847 in literature

See also: 1846 in literature, other events of 1847, 1848 in literature, list of years in literature. See also: 1845 in literature, other events of 1846, 1847 in literature, list of years in literature. ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... See also: 1847 in literature, other events of 1848, 1849 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ...

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Balzac redirects here. ... Le Cousin Pons is a novel by Honoré de Balzac written in 1847. ... Anne Brontë (January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest of the Brontë literary family. ... Agnes Grey is a novel about a governess of that name, written by Anne Brontë in 1847. ... Charlotte Brontë (IPA: ) (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature. ... Jane Eyre is a classic romance novel by Charlotte Brontë which was published in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Company, London, and is one of the most famous British novels of all time. ... Portrait by her brother Emily Jane Brontë (July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights, which is now an acknowledged classic of English literature. ... Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontës only novel. ... Mrs. ... Captain Frederick Marryat (July 10, 1792 – August 9, 1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, essayist and poet. ... Omoo was Herman Melvilles sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also nonfiction. ... An illustration from The Mysteries of London George W.M. Reynolds (1814-1879) was a British author and journalist. ... George Sand in 1864 (picture by Nadar). ... Joseph Marie Eugène Sue (January 20, 1804–August 3, 1857), French novelist, was born in Paris. ... The Seven Deadly Sins (German: Die sieben Todsünden[1]) is a satirical ballet chanté (sung ballet) in nine scenes composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht. ... Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (December 21, 1804 - April 24, British Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and author. ... William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. ... Title-page to Vanity Fair, drawn by Thackeray, who furnished the illustrations for many of his earlier editions Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. ...

Poetry

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Statue of Evangeline - heroine of the Acadian deportation - Saint Martinville, Louisiana Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is a poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ... Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ... Ulalume is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. ...

Non-fiction

William Wells Brown (November 6, 1814 – November 6, 1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. ... Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (IPA:  ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian, generally recognized as the first existentialist philosopher. ... Works of Love(english title -- perhaps also nothing?) (Kjerlighedens Gjerninger) is a work by Søren Kierkegaard (1847) dealing primarily with Christian love. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883, London) was a German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. ... The Poverty of Philosphy is a book by Karl Marx published in Paris and Brussels in 1847. ... William Hickling Prescott (May 4, 1796 - January 29, 1859) was a historian. ...

Births

April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... Joseph Pulitzer Joseph Pulitzer (April 18, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism. ... See also: 1910 in literature, other events of 1911, 1912 in literature, list of years in literature. ... September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... Alice Meynell (September 22, 1847 _ November 27, 1922) was an English writer and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. ... See also: 1921 in literature, other events of 1922, 1923 in literature, list of years in literature. ... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... Abraham Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847–April 20, 1912) was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. ... See also: 1911 in literature, other events of 1912, 1913 in literature, list of years in literature. ...

Deaths

May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (June 17, 1797 _ May 4, 1847), was a French critic and theologian. ... September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ... Grace Aguilar (1816 - 1847), a novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion, was born at Hackney of Jewish parents of Spanish descent. ...

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