Elizabeth Gaskell's first published work of fiction, the story "Life in Manchester: Libbie Marsh's Three Eras", appears in Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress[2] under the pen name Cotton Mather Mills.
November – Dmitry Grigorovich's anti-serfdom novel Anton Goremyka («Антон-горемыка», "Luckless Anton") is published in Sovremennik with its politically sensitive last scene rewritten by a censor.
Alexandre Dumas – The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tard; serialization begins; in English usually in three parts, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallière, The Man in the Iron Mask)
^Tilby, Michael (2000). "George Sand". In Classe, Olive (ed.). Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English. Vol. 2. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 1223–7. ISBN978-1-884964-36-7.