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The year 1847 in literature involved some significant events and new literature.

Novels

 * Honoré de Balzac - Le Cousin Pons
 * Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey
 * Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
 * Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
 * Catherine Gore - Castles in The Air
 * Frederick Marryat - The Children of the New Forest
 * Herman Melville - Omoo
 * G. W. M. Reynolds - Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals
 * George Sand - Le Péché de M. Antoine
 * Eugène Sue
 * Martin the Foundling
 * The Seven Deadly Sins
 * Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - The System
 * Benjamin Disraeli - Tancred
 * William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair

Poetry

 * Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poems
 * Walter Savage Landor - The Hellenics
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Evangeline
 * Henry Francis Lyte - Abide with Me
 * Edgar Allan Poe - Ulalume
 * Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Princess, including "Tears, Idle Tears"

Non-fiction

 * William Wells Brown - William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
 * Søren Kierkegaard - Works of Love
 * Karl Marx - The Poverty of Philosophy
 * William H. Prescott - History of the Conquest of Peru

Births

 * April 10 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaperman (died 1911)
 * September 22 - Alice Meynell, poet (died 1922)
 * November 8 - Bram Stoker, writer (died 1912)
 * December 1 - Julia A. Moore, American poet famed for her notoriously bad poetry (died 1920)

Deaths

 * May 4 - Alexandre Vinet, critic and theologian (born 1797)
 * September 10 - Richard Henry Wilde (born 1789)
 * September 16 - Grace Aguilar, novelist (born 1816)
 * November 20 - Henry Francis Lyte (born 1793)
 * Date unknown
 * William Shepherd