page_title: 1849 in literature
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1849 in literature / Events
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of serial, "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
context_page_description: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
  —Dickens, opening of David Copperfield
context_section_description: March–November – La Tribune des Peuples, a pan-European romantic nationalist periodical, is published by Adam Mickiewicz.
  April 22 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky and fellow members of the literary Petrashevsky Circle in Russia are arrested for expressing their progressive views. Sentenced to death on November 16 and facing a firing squad on December 23, he and some others are reprieved at the last moment and exiled to the katorga prison camps in Siberia.
  May 1 – Charles Dickens's Bildungsroman David Copperfield begins serial publication by Bradbury and Evans in London.
  May 10 – The Astor Place Riot takes place in Manhattan over a dispute between two Shakespearean actors, the American Edwin Forrest and the Englishman William Macready. Over 20 people are killed.
  May 28 – Anne Brontë dies of tuberculosis aged 29 at Scarborough on the Yorkshire coast of England, where she is buried. Until 2013, her headstone mistakenly gave her age as 28.
  September 20 – Honoré de Balzac travels to Poland to meet Eveline Hanska, whom he will marry shortly before his death next year.
  October 3 – Edgar Allan Poe is found on the streets of Baltimore delirious, "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance". He dies on October 7 aged 40, of an uncertain cause.
  October–December – Thomas De Quincey's essay The English Mail-Coach appears in issues of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
  November – The English scholarly correspondence magazine Notes and Queries is first published.
  November 14 – A public festival is held in Denmark to mark the 70th birthday of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger.
  Uncertain dates
  J. A. Froude's semi-autobiographical, epistolary philosophical novel of religious doubt The Nemesis of Faith is published by John Chapman in London. A copy is burned by William Sewell, Dean of Exeter College, Oxford, himself a novelist.
  The Leipzig publisher B. G. Teubner begins publishing the Bibliotheca Teubneriana series of editions of the Classics.
  Who's Who is published for the first time in the United Kingdom.
  Philip Massinger's play Believe as You List receives its first publication, 218 years after its theatrical première.
caption: 1st serial ed. cover
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