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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1848. ==Events== *January 22 - Second edition of Charlotte Brontë's ''Jane Eyre'' is published, with a dedication to Thackeray. It is also first published this year in the United States. *February 21 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish ''The Communist Manifesto'' (''Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei'') in London. *March 15 - Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire: Ferdinand I of Austria abolishes censorship. *March 18 - The Boston Public Library is founded by an act of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts. *April 1 - Charles Dickens's novel ''Dombey and Son'' concludes its serial publication. *April 10 - John Ruskin marries Effie Gray. *May 5 - Poet Alfred de Musset is dismissed as librarian of the Ministry of the Interior under the French Second Republic. *c.June 27 - Publication (as by "Acton Bell") in London of Anne Brontë's second and final novel, ''The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'' which sells out in six weeks, requiring a reissue.〔 *July - William Makepeace Thackeray's novel ''Vanity Fair'' concludes serial publication in ''Punch'' magazine and is first published in book format (from the same typesetting) by Bradbury and Evans in London with illustrations by the author. *September 24 - Branwell Brontë dies, probably of tuberculosis, at Haworth Parsonage, aged 31.〔 *October - Publication (anonymously) in London of Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, ''Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life''. *c.October - The first frescoes of scenes from English literature in the Poets' Hall of the Palace of Westminster are completed: Charles West Cope's ''(Griselda's first Trial of Patience )'' (based on Chaucer's ''The Clerk's Tale'') and John Callcott Horsley's ''(Satan touched by Ithuriel's Spear while whispering evil dreams to Eve )'' (based on Milton's ''Paradise Lost''). *November * *William Makepeace Thackeray's novel ''The History of Pendennis'' begins its serial publication. * * London publisher George Routledge begins publishing the Railway Library series of cheap reprint novels, pioneering the yellow-back genre with an edition of James Fenimore Cooper's ''The Pilot''. *December 19 - Emily Brontë dies of tuberculosis at Haworth Parsonage, aged 30.〔 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「1848 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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