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The year 1849 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events
- La Tribune des Peuples, a pan-European romantic nationalist periodical, is published between March and November by Adam Mickiewicz.
- Who's Who is published for the first time.
- Honoré de Balzac travels to Poland to meet Eveline Hanska, whom he will marry shortly before his death.
- Philip Massinger's play Believe as You List receives its first publication, 218 years after its theatrical premier.
- Thomas De Quincey's The English Mail-Coach appears in the October and December issues of Blackwood's Magazine.
- November 14 - A public festival is held in Denmark to celebrate the 70th birthday of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger.
New books
- William Harrison Ainsworth - The Lancashire Witches
- Charlotte Brontë - Shirley
- François-René de Chateaubriand - Memoirs From Beyond the Grave
- Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - Netochka Nezvanova
- Catherine Gore - The Diamond and the Pearl
- Charles Kingsley - Alton Locke
- Herman Melville
- Mayne Reid - The Rifle Rangers
- G. W. M. Reynolds - The Bronze Statue
- George Sand - Little Fadette
- James Anthony Froude - The Nemesis of Faith
New drama
- Christian Friedrich Hebbel - Der Rubin
- Gaspar Núñez de Arce - Amor y Orgullo
- Eugène Scribe - Adrienne Lecouvreur
Poetry
- Matthew Arnold - The Strayed Reveller
- Edgar Allan Poe - Annabel Lee, Eldorado, The Bells
Non-fiction
- John Mitchell Kemble - History of the Saxons in England
- Francis Parkman - The Oregon Trail
- John Ruskin - The Seven Lamps of Architecture
- Henry David Thoreau - On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- George Ticknor - A History of Spanish Literature
Births
- January 22 - August Strindberg, Swedish dramatist (d. 1912)
- February 18 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian novelist (d. 1906)
- July 22 - Emma Lazarus, poet
- August 23 - William Henley, British poet (d. 1903)
- November 24 - Frances Hodgson Burnett, children's writer (d. 1924)
Deaths
- January 6 - Hartley Coleridge, poet and critic
- February 8 - France Prešeren, poet
- May 22 - Maria Edgeworth, novelist
- May 28 - Anne Brontë, novelist and poet
- July 7 - Goffredo Mameli, poet
- July 25 - James Kenney, dramatist
- October 7 - Edgar Allan Poe, poet, short story writer, and critic