1847 in literature

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Events

Prose

  • The novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée appears.
  • Agnes Grey Anne Brontë
  • Jane Eyre: Charlotte Brontë
  • Wuthering Heights: Emily Brontë
  • The German translation of Grandville's Un Autre Monde appears as an Other World by Pliny the youngest illustrated by JJ Grandville at Carl Berendt Lorck in Leipzig. Translator is Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff, the French version is from Taxile Delord.

Scientific works

  • Friedrich Engels wrote the program outline principles of communism.
  • Karl Marx against Proudhon Pierre Joseph directed work The Poverty of Philosophy appears.

More events

  • September 6: The American writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau relates an apartment together with Ralph Waldo Emerson in Concorde, Massachusetts.

Born

  • January 6: Milovan Glišić, Serbian writer and translator († 1908)
  • January 16: Kálmán Mikszáth, Hungarian writer († 1910)
  • February 22: Thornton Chase, American author († 1912)
  • April 7: Jens Peter Jacobsen, Danish writer († 1885)
  • April 10: Joseph Pulitzer, American journalist and publisher († 1911)
  • APRIL 24: Otto Leixner of Grunberg, an Austrian writer and literary historian († 1907)
  • May 10: May French Sheldon, American explorer and author († 1936)
  • MAY 23: Heinrich Kämpchen, German writer († 1912)
  • July 14: Gustav Eberlein, German sculptor, painter and writer († 1926)
  • August 20: Bolesław Prus, Polish writer and publicist ( † 1912)
  • October 1: Annie Besant, British suffragette, theosophist and author († 1933)
  • OCTOBER 21: Edvard Brandes, Danish cultural politician and writer († 1931)
  • OCTOBER 21: Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet, actor and librettist († 1906)
  • November 8: Bram Stoker, Irish author († 1912)
  • November 18: Eliska Krásnohorská, Czech writer († 1926)
  • December 8: Carl Weitbrecht, German poet and literary historian († 1904)

Died

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