1848 in literature
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Events
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- The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter - Henri Murger
- Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens
- The Emigrants of Ahadarra - William Carleton
- Francois the Waif - George Sand
- The Half Sisters - Geraldine Jewsbury
- Harold - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
- The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain - Charles Dickens
- Life in the Wilds of North America - RM Ballantyne
- The Little Savage - Frederick Marryat
- The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas, père
- Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
- Pendennis - William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Queen's Necklace - Alexandre Dumas, père
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
- Valerie - Frederick Marryat
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Births
- February 5 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, writer (+ 1907)
- February 16 - Octave Mirbeau, novelist (+ 1917)
- February 24 - Grant Allen, writer (+ 1899)
Deaths
- January 19 - Isaac D'Israeli, author
- July 4 - François-René de Chateaubriand, writer
- August 9 - Frederick Marryat, novelist
- December 19 - Emily Brontë, writer
