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The year 1847 in literature involved some significant events and new literature.

Novels

• 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

Poetry

• Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poems
• Walter Savage Landor - The Hellenics
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Evangeline
• Henry Francis Lyte - Abide with Me
• Edgar Allan Poe - Ulalume
• Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Princess, including "Tears, Idle Tears"

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 (died 1911)
• September 22 - Alice Meynell, poet (died 1922)
• November 8 - Bram Stoker, writer (died 1912)
• December 1 - Julia A. Moore, American poet famed for her notoriously bad poetry (died 1920)

Deaths

• May 4 - Alexandre Vinet, critic and theologian (born 1797)
• September 10 - Richard Henry Wilde (born 1789)
• September 16 - Grace Aguilar, novelist (born 1816)
• November 20 - Henry Francis Lyte (born 1793)
• Date unknown
  • William Shepherd