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This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1847. ==Events== *January – ''Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero'' begins serial publication in ''Punch'' magazine (London), with the author, William Makepeace Thackeray, for the first time writing under his own name. *April – Robert Browning settles with his wife and fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence. *June – Hans Christian Andersen begins his first visit to Britain during which he meets Charles Dickens. *June 10 – Fictional date at the end of Anne Brontë's ''The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'', presumed to be that of the novel's completion. *July – London publisher Thomas Cautley Newby accepts for publication Emily Brontë's ''Wuthering Heights'' and Anne Brontë's ''Agnes Grey''.〔 *August 7–24 – Charlotte Brontë completes the manuscript of ''Jane Eyre'' at Haworth and sends it to her publisher after he has rejected ''The Professor''.〔(British Library Online Gallery: Manuscript of "Jane Eyre" ). Accessed 5 April 2013.〕 *September 16 – William Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon in England is bought by the United Shakespeare Company for preservation. *October 19 – Charlotte Brontë's ''Jane Eyre'' is published (as "an autobiography, edited by Currer Bell") in London by Smith, Elder & Co. in 3 volumes.〔 *November – Dmitry Grigorovich's anti-serfdom novel ''Anton Goremyka'' (Антон-горемыка, "Luckless Anton") is published in ''Sovremennik'' (Saint Petersburg) with its politically sensitive last scene rewritten by a censor. *November 1 – John Maddison Morton's one-act farce ''Box and Cox'' (adapted from the French) opens at the Lyceum Theatre, London (under the new management of Madame Vestris and her husband Charles James Mathews) with John Pritt Harley and John Baldwin Buckstone in the title rôles. *December 14 – Emily Brontë's ''Wuthering Heights'' and Anne Brontë's ''Agnes Grey'' are published in a 3-volume set under the pen names of Ellis and Acton Bell respectively in London by T. C. Newby.〔(Oxford Index: Thomas Cautley Newby ) Accessed 5 April 2013.〕 ''Wuthering Heights'' will be Emily's only published novel as she dies aged 30 a year later. *London publisher E. Churton brings out the first six of George Sand's books to be issued in English, the translations being by Matilda Hays, Eliza Ashurst and Rev. Edmund Larken. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1847 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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