Books - 1847 in literature

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New books

• Agnes Grey
  - Anne Brontë
• Castles in The Air - Catherine Gore
• The Children of the New Forest - Frederick Marryat
• Jane Eyre
  - Charlotte Brontë
• Martin the Foundling - Eugène Sue
• Omoo
  - Herman Melville
• Le Péché de M. Antoine - George Sand
• The Seven Deadly Sins - Eugène Sue
• The System - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
• Tancred - Benjamin Disraeli
• Vanity Fair
  - William Makepeace Thackeray
• William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave - William Wells Brown
• Wuthering Heights
  - Emily Brontë

Poetry

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Evangeline

Non-fiction

• 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

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