1831 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1831.
Events
- January 1 â William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the Liberator, an abolitionist periodical in the United States.
- February 18 (old style) â Alexander Pushkin marries Natalya Goncharova at the Great Ascension Church on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow.
- March 16 â Victor Hugo's historical romantic Gothic novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (completed on January 15), is published by Gosselin in Paris.
- March 19 â The play The Tricolour Cockade by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "chauvinism".[1]
- April 18 â The Sydney Morning Herald is first published.
- unknown dates
- Convict Henry Savery's autobiographical fiction Quintus Servinton: a tale founded upon incidents of real occurrence is published anonymously in Tasmania, the first Australian novel.[2]
- Playwright Manuel Bretón de los Herreros publishes a translation of Tibullus, which secures him an appointment as sub-librarian at the Spanish national library (Biblioteca Pública de Palacio).[3]
- Daniel Appleton publishes three religious books in New York City, so originating of the firm of D. Appleton & Company.[4]
New books
Fiction
- Honoré de Balzac
- John Brownlow â Hans Sloane: a tale
- Cogniard Brothers â The Tricolour Cockade
- Selina Davenport â The Queen's Page
- Benjamin Disraeli â The Young Duke
- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier â Destiny
- Nikolai Gogol â Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
- Catherine Gore
- Mothers and Daughters[5]
- Pin Money[5]
- The Tuileries
- Thomas Colley Grattan â Jacqueline of Holland
- Ann Hatton â Gerald Fitzgerald
- Victor Hugo â The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris)
- Thomas Love Peacock â Crotchet Castle
- George Sand (as Amantine Aurore Dupin) and Jules Sandeau (as J. Sand) â Rose et Blanche
- Mary Shelley â Frankenstein (revised 1-volume edition)
Children
- Anne Knight â Mary Gray. A tale for little girls
Drama
- Robert Montgomery Bird â Gladiator
- Manuel Bretón de los Herreros â Marcela o ¿Cuál de las tres?
- Dulduityn Danzanravjaa â Saran khökhöö (Moon Cuckoo; approximate year)
- Alfred de Vigny â La Maréchale d'Ancre
- Catherine Gore â The School for Coquettes
- Franz Grillparzer â Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen (Waves of the Sea and of Love)
- Victor Hugo â Marion Delorme
- James Kenney â The Pledge
- James Sheridan Knowles â Alfred the Great
- Alexander Pushkin â Boris Godunov (ÐоÑÐ¸Ñ ÐодÑнов, published)
- John Augustus Stone â Tancred, King of Sicily
- Robert Taylor â Swing, or, Who Are the Incendiaries?
Poetry
- Thomas Hood â The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer
- Giacomo Leopardi â Canti
- Edgar Allan Poe â Poems
Non-fiction
- Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet â The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences
- Washington Irving â Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus
- John Stuart Mill â The Spirit of the Age
- Thomas Moore â The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald
- James Cowles Prichard â Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations
- Mary Prince â The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave
Births
- January 2 â Justin Winsor, American historian and librarian (died 1897)
- January 3 â George Manville Fenn, English novelist and educationalist (died 1909)
- January 14 â John Cordy Jeaffreson, English novelist and non-fiction writer (died 1901)
- February 25 â Jane G. Austin, American writer (died 1894)
- January 26 â Mary Mapes Dodge, American children's writer (died 1907)
- February 16 â Nikolai Leskov, Russian novelist and playwright (died 1895)
- March 29 â Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, English novelist and teacher (died 1919)
- April 9 â Clara Harrison Stranahan, American author and college founder (died 1905)
- April 19 â Mary Louise Booth, American writer, editor, and translator (died 1889)
- May 6 â Mary C. Ames, American writer (died 1884)
- June 7 â Amelia Edwards, English fiction writer and Egyptologist (died 1892)
- June 25 â Harriet Mann Miller, American author, naturalist, and ornithologist (died 1918)
- July 3 â Edmund Yates, Scottish writer (died 1894)
- July 5 â Cordelia A. Greene, American physician, reformer, benefactor (died 1905)
- July 7 â Jane Elizabeth Conklin, American religious writer and poet (died 1914)
- August 1 â William Aldis Wright, English writer and literary editor (died 1914)
- September 5 â Victorien Sardou, French dramatist (died 1908)
- September 12 â Ãlvares de Azevedo, Brazilian Ultra-Romantic writer (died 1852)
- October 7 â Eleanor Kirk, American writer (died 1908)
- October 15 â Helen Hunt Jackson, American poet, writer and activist (died 1885)
- October 19 â Fanny Murdaugh Downing, American author and poet (died 1894)
- unknown date â Nora Perry, American writer (died 1896)[6]
Deaths
- January 2 â Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Danish-born German historian (born 1776)
- January 14 â Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (born 1745)
- January 21 â Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet and novelist (heart attack, born 1781)
- February 25 â Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German dramatist and novelist, originator of Sturm und Drang (born 1752)[7]
- April 4 â Isaiah Thomas, American publisher (born 1749)
- June 30 â William Roscoe, English poet (born 1753)
- September 12 â Jippensha Ikku (åè¿è ä¸ä¹), Japanese novelist and humorist (born 1765)
- October 2 â José Agostinho de Macedo, Portuguese poet (born 1761)
- December 18 â Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author (born 1756)
- December 26 â Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Indian poet and teacher (born 1809)