1837 in literature

1837 in literature

The year 1837 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* The Little, Brown and Company publishing house opens its doors.
* First publication of the "The United States Magazine and Democratic Review."

New books

*William Harrison Ainsworth -"Crichton"
*Hans Christian Andersen - "Only a Fiddler"
*Honoré de Balzac
**"Cesar Birotteau"
**"Lost Illusions"
*Robert Montgomery Bird - "Nick of the Woods"
*Benjamin Disraeli
**"Henrietta Temple"
**"Venetia"
*Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé -"L'influence d'un livre"
*Jeremias Gotthelf - "Bauernspiegel"
*Washington Irving - "The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
*Julia Kavanagh - "Adele"
*Frederick Marryat - "Snarleyyow"
*Catharine Maria Sedgwick - "Live and Let Live"
*Mary Shelley - "Falkner"

New short stories

*Nathaniel Hawthorne - "Twice-Told Tales"
*Victor Séjour - "Le Mulâtre", the earliest known work of African-American fiction

New drama

*Joanna Baillie - "The Separation"

Poetry

*José de Espronceda - "El estudiante de Salamanca"
*Alphonse de Lamartine - "Chute d'un ange"

Non-fiction

*Bernard Bolzano - "The Philosophy of Logic"
*Thomas Carlyle - "The French Revolution, A History"
*Washington Irving - "The Adventures of Captain Bonneville"
*Harriet Martineau - "Society in America"
*William H. Prescott - "The History of Ferdinand and Isabella"

Births

*January 23 - Agnes Maule Machar, novelist (d. 1927)
* March 1
** Ion Creangă, Romanian writer (d. 1889)
** William Dean Howells, writer (d. 1920)
* March 6 - Sully Prudhomme, poet (d. 1907)
* April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
*October 15 - Leo Königsberger, historian of science (d. 1921)
*December 10 - Edward Eggleston, novelist and historian (d. 1902)

Deaths

* January 29 - Aleksandr Pushkin, poet (b. 1799) (killed in a duel)
*February 12 - Ludwig Börne, political writer and satirist (b. 1786)
*March 9 - Alexandru Hrisoverghi, Romanian-language writer and translator (b. 1811)
*June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi, poet (b. 1798) (cholera)
*September 21 - Georg Ludolf Dissen, philologist (b. 1784)
*October 19 - Hendrik Doeff, travel writer (b. 1764)
*"date unknown"
**Lukijan Mušicki, Serbian poet (b. 1777)
**Mary Robinson, the "Maid of Buttermere" (b. 1778)

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