This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1849.
Children and young adults
Charlotte Mary Yonge – The Railroad Children
Christian Friedrich Hebbel – Der Rubin
Gaspar Núñez de Arce – Amor y Orgullo
Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé – Adrienne Lecouvreur
Matthew Arnold – The Strayed Reveller
Petrus Augustus de Genestet – De Sint-Nicolaasavond (Saint Nicholas's Eve)
Elias Lönnrot, comp. – Kalevala (new version)
Edgar Allan Poe – Annabel Lee, Eldorado, The Bells, A Dream Within a Dream
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
John Ruskin – The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Henry David Thoreau – Resistance to Civil Government
George Ticknor – A History of Spanish Literature
January 22 – August Strindberg, Swedish dramatist (died 1912)
February 18 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian novelist (died 1906)
February 27 – Václav Beneš Třebízský, Czech novelist (died 1884)
June 9 – Karl Tanera, German military writer and novelist (died 1904)
July 22 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (died 1887)
August 8 – Hume Nisbet, Scottish thriller writer, poet and artist (died 1923)
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)
November 24 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, English children's writer and playwright (died 1924)
January 6 – Hartley Coleridge, English poet and critic, (alcohol-related, born 1796)
February 8 – France Prešeren, 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 1899)
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 (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, 40 (alcohol-related, born 1809)
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