Home > 1850 in literature

1 Events

• Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) named Poet Laureate of England.
• Periodical Household Words begins publication
• Henrik Ibsen's first play, The Burial Mound, is produced

2 New Books

• Antonina - Wilkie Collins
• The Arabian Nights - Sir Richard Burton
• The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas, père
• Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects - Ivar AasenIvar Andreas Aasen ( August 5, 1813 September 23, 1896) was a Norwegian philologist and lexicographer. Aasen was born at Aasen in Orsta (then Orsten), in the district of Sunnmore, on the West Coast of Norway. His father, a small peasant-farmer named Ivar
• Linda - Caroline Lee Hentz
• A Month in the Country - Ivan TurgenevFelix Nadar (1820-1910) Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( , November 9, 1818 September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, poet, and writer, most famous for his novel Fathers and Sons''. Turgenev was born into a wealthy family, but suffered at the hands of an emot
• The Peasant War in Germany - Friedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels ( November 28 1820 August 5 1895) was a German Socialist philosopher and the co-founder of modern Communist theory with Karl Marx. In 1848, they published The Communist Manifesto together. Engels edited several volumes of Das Kapital Capi
• Rena, the Snowbird - Caroline Lee Hentz
• The Scarlet LetterThe Scarlet Letter published in 1850, was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his greatest work and a classic piece of American literature. Set in Puritan New England in the 17th century, the story deeply probes the issues of - Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne ( July 4, 1804 May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts and died in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Hawthorne's father was a sea captain and descendant of John Hathorn, one
• Sonnets from the PortugueseSonnets from the Portuguese is a collection of love sonnets, written by Elizabeth Browning. The sonnets are dedicated to her husband Robert Browning. The collection is called "from the Portuguese" because her husband used to call her "my little Portuguese (Poetry) - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningElizabeth Barrett Browning (Moulton ( March 6, 1806- June 29, 1861) was the most respected female poet of the Victorian era. She was born at Coxhoe Hall (now demolished) near Durham, England. She was christened in Kelloe church, where a plaque describes h
• Tales of City Life - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• Tristan le Roux - Alexandre Dumas, fils
• La Vendee - Anthony Trollope
• White-Jacket - Herman Melville
• The Wide, Wide World - Susan Warner