1850 in literature

1850 in literature
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The year 1850 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) named Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, succeeding William Wordsworth.
Periodical Household Words begins publication
Henrik Ibsen's second play, The Burial Mound, is produced

New books

Wilkie Collins - Antonina
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Alexandre Dumas, fils - Tristan le Roux
Alexandre Dumas, père - The Black Tulip
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
Caroline Lee Hentz
- Linda
- Rena, the Snowbird
Herman Melville - White-Jacket
Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Tales of City Life
Frank Smedley - Frank Fairleigh
Anthony Trollope - La Vendée
Susan Warner - The Wide, Wide World

New drama

Christian Friedrich Hebbel - Herodes and Mariamne
Henrik Ibsen - Catilina (Ibsen's first play, not performed until 1881)
Otto Ludwig - Der Erbförster
Ivan Turgenev - A Month in the Country

Poetry

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnets from the Portuguese

Non-fiction

Ivar Aasen - Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Representative Men
Friedrich Engels - The Peasant War in Germany
Alexander Herzen - From Another Shore
Washington Irving - Mahomet and His Successors

Births

January 14 - Pierre Loti, novelist
January 15 - Mihai Eminescu, poet
June 27 - Lafcadio Hearn, writer
June 27 - Ivan Vazov, poet, novelist and playwright
August 5 - Guy de Maupassant, writer
September 2 - Eugene Field, poet and essayist
November 5 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet and journalist
November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist

Deaths

January 20 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, poet and dramatist
April 7 - William Lisle Bowles, poet and critic
April 23 - William Wordsworth, poet
May 31 - Giuseppe Giusti, poet
July 14 - August Neander, theologian
July 19 - Sarah Margaret Fuller, writer
August 18 - Honoré de Balzac, novelist
August 22 - Nikolaus Lenau, poet
November 4 - Gustav Schwab, author
December 24 - Frédéric Bastiat, philosopher and author

Awards

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