1844 in literature
See also: 1843 in literature, other events of 1844, 1845 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
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New books
- Barry Lyndon - William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Chimes - Charles Dickens
- Condition of the Working Classes in England - Friedrich Engels
- Coningsby - Benjamin Disraeli
- Les Paysans - Honoré de Balzac
- Life of Arnold - Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
- Poems (poetry) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Settlers in Canada - Frederick Marryat
- Struwwelpeter - Heinrich Hoffmann
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas, père
- Tom Burke of Ours - Charles Lever
- Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas, père
- Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation - Anonymous (Robert Chambers)
- The Wandering Jew - Eugène Sue
- The Wrongs of Women - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
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Births
- March 30 - Paul Verlaine, lyric poet
- April 2 - George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher
- April 16 - Anatole France, writer
- July 28 - Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Deaths
- January 27 - Charles Nodier, writer
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