1850 in literature

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Events

Prose

• Nathaniel Hawthorne published the novel The Scarlet Letter, which deals with the Puritanism from the perspective of romance.
• Alexandre Dumas published the novel The Black Tulip.
• The novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens first appears in book form.
• Herman Melville publishes the novel White Jacket, or The World on a warship.

Periodicals

• Edited by Charles Dickens weekly magazine Household Words first appears.

Religion

• September 29: In the Zirkumskriptionsbulle Universalis Ecclesiae, Pope Pius IX has. the restoration of the structure of the Roman Catholic Church in the British Isles and in Gibraltar.

Born

• January 4: Paul d' Abrest, Bohemian writer († 1893)
• JANUARY 14: Pierre Loti, French naval officer and writer († 1923)
• JANUARY 15: Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet († 1889)
• JANUARY 28: John Collier, British writer and painter († 1934)

• MARCH 6: Victoria Benedictsson, Swedish writer († 1888)
• MARCH 11: Sophie von Adelung, German writer and painter († 1924)
• March 26: Edward Bellamy, American SF writer († 1898)

• April 7: Robert de Bonnières, French writer († 1905)
• APRIL 23: Philippe Godet, Swiss writer († 1922)

• July 27: Lafcadio Hearn, British writer († 1904)
• August 5: Guy de Maupassant, French author and poet († 1893)

• September 30: Babette von Bülow, German writer († 1927)
• OCTOBER 5: Ludwig Wilser, German physician and writer († 1923)

• November 7: Friedrich Hermann Wölfert, German publisher and aviation pioneer († 1897)
• November 13: Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer († 1894)
• NOVEMBER 19: Hans Heinrich Julius Brendicke, Berlin gym instructor, gym writer and editor († 1925)

• Mihran Nakkashian, Armenian editor and publicist ( † 1944)

Died

• January 20: Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish National Romantic poets (* 1779)
• April 23: William Wordsworth, British poet (* 1770)

• MAY 9: Theodor Wilhelm Danzel, German literature historian (* 1818)
• MAY 12: Heinrich August Pierer, German officer, publisher and lexicographer (* 1794)

• September 7: Julius Minding, German physician and writer (* 1808)
• September 22: Johann Heinrich von Thünen, German author (* 1783)

• November 4: Gustav Schwab, German pastor, writer and publisher (* 1792)
• December 24: Frédéric Bastiat, French economist and journalist (* 1801)

• John Thurston, English pool table manufacturer, inventor and author (* 1777)