Timeline » 1847 in context

Historical

Ten Hours' Factory Act

Literary

Disraeli's Tancred

Bronte, Anne

December: Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey published

Bronte, Charlotte

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

Dickens, Charles

Collaborates with Miss Coutts on opening of a home for homeless women

Kingsley, Charles

Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke

Rossetti, Christina

Verses: Dedicated to her Mother , privately printed by her grandfather

Thackeray, William Makepeace

William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (-1848)