1849 in literature

Children and young people

• Charlotte Mary Yonge – The Railroad Children

Drama

• Christian Friedrich Hebbel – Der Rubin
• John Westland Marston – Strathmore
• Gaspar Núñez de Arce – Amor y Orgullo
• Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé – Adrienne Lecouvreur

Poetry

• Matthew Arnold – The Strayed Reveller
• Petrus Augustus de Genestet – De Sint-Nicolaasavond (Saint Nicholas's Eve)
• Elias Lönnrot (compiler) – Kalevala (new version)
• Edgar Allan Poe – "Annabel Lee", "Eldorado", "The Bells", "A Dream Within a Dream"

Non-fiction

• Josiah Henson – "The Life of Josiah Henson"
• John Mitchell Kemble – History of the Saxons in England
• Søren Kierkegaard (as Anti-Climacus) – The Sickness Unto Death (Sygdommen til Døden)
• Francis Parkman – The Oregon Trail
• Thomas Phillips – Wales, the Language, Social Condition, Moral Character, and Religious Opinions of the People, considered in their relation to Education...
• John Ruskin – The Seven Lamps of Architecture
• William Smith – Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
• Henry David Thoreau – Resistance to Civil Government
• George Ticknor – A History of Spanish Literature
• Chandos Wren-Hoskyns – A Short Inquiry into the History of Agriculture in Mediæval and Modern Times

Births

• January 9 – Laura Kieler (née Petersen), Norwegian novelist and dramatic inspiration (died 1932)
• January 22 – August Strindberg, Swedish dramatist (died 1912)
• February 18 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian novelist (died 1906)
• February 27 – Václav BeneÅ¡ Třebízský, Czech novelist (died 1884)
• March 10 – Mary Evelyn Hitchcock, American author and explorer (died 1920)
• April 1 – Mary K. Buck, Bohemian-born American author (died 1901)
• April 24
• Emma Whitcomb Babcock, American litterateur and author (died 1926)
• Helen Taggart Clark, American columnist, short story writer, and poet (died 1918)
• June 9 – Karl Tanera, German military writer and novelist (died 1904)
• July 22 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (died 1887)
• July 30 – Lettie S. Bigelow, American poet and author (died 1906)
• August 8 – Hume Nisbet, Scottish thriller writer, poet and artist (died 1923)
• August 9 – Amy Catherine Walton (née Deck, writing as Mrs. O. F. Walton), English writer of Christian children's books (died 1939)
• August 23 – W. E. Henley, English poet (died 1903)
• August 30 – J. M. Dent, English publisher (died 1926)
• September 3 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (died 1909)
• October 7 – James Whitcomb Riley, American writer and poet (died 1916)
• October 31 – Marie Louise Andrews, American writer and editor (died 1891)
• December 16– Mary Hartwell Catherwood, American author and poet (died 1902)
• November 24 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, English children's writer and playwright (died 1924)
• date unknown

Deaths

• January 6 – Hartley Coleridge, English poet and critic (alcohol-related, born 1796)
• February 8 – France PreÅ¡eren, Slovenian poet (liver disease, born 1800)
• February 19 – Bernard Barton, English Quaker poet (born 1784)
• May 22 – Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (born 1768)
• May 28 – Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (tuberculosis, born 1820)
• June 4 – Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Irish novelist and literary hostess (born 1789)
• July 7 – Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet (infection from bayonet wound, born 1827)
• July 12 – Horace (Horatio) Smith, English poet and novelist (born 1799)
• July 25 – James Kenney, English dramatist (born 1780)
• July 27 – Charlotte von Ahlefeld, German novelist (born 1781)
• July 31 – Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (probably killed in Battle of Segesvár, born 1823)
• August 25 – Adele Schopenhauer, German novelist and paper-cut artist (born 1797)
• October 7 – Edgar Allan Poe, American poet, short story writer and critic (born 1809)

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