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| 1842 |
| | | The publication of the first part of the satirical novel Dead Souls, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, proves a sensation in Russia | |
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| 1842 |
| | | Honoré de Balzac begins publication of a collected edition of his fiction under the title La Comédie Humaine | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Pit and the Pendulum, a cliff-hanging tale of terror at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Ebenezer Scrooge mends his ways just in time in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol | |
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| 1844 |
| | | In his novel Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli develops the theme of Conservatism uniting 'two nations', the rich and the poor | |
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| 1847 |
| | | English author William Makepeace Thackeray begins publication of his novel Vanity Fair in monthly parts (book form 1848) | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Charlotte becomes the first of the Brontë sisters to have a novel published — Jane Eyre | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights follows just two months after her sister Charlotte's Jane Eyre | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Honoré de Balzac completes publication of La Comédie Humaine, a 17-volume collected edition of his numerous novels and stories | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Charles Dickens begins the publication in monthly numbers of David Copperfield, his own favourite among his novels | |
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