1836 in literature

1836 in literature

The year 1836 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*October 2 - "HMS Beagle" returns to the UK, and Charles Darwin is an instant celebrity.

New books

*"Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed" (January)
*Hans Christian Andersen - "The Little Mermaid"
*Charles Dickens - "The Pickwick Papers"
*Washington Irving - "Astoria"
*Frederick Marryat
**"The Pirate"
**"Mr. Midshipman Easy"
**"The Three Cutters"
*Alexander Pushkin - "The Captain's Daughter"
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*Catharine Parr Traill - "The Backwoods of Canada"
*Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
**"George Balcombe"
**"The Partisan Leader"

New drama

*Georg Büchner - "Leonce and Lena"

New Short Stories

*"La Morte Amoureuse" - Théophile Gautier

Poetry

*Robert Browning - "Porphyria's Lover"
*Oliver Wendell Holmes - Poems"

Non-fiction

*Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Nature"
*Washington Irving - "Astoria"
*G. W. M. Reynolds - "Grace Darling"
*Arthur Schopenhauer - "Über den Willen in der Natur (On the Will in Nature)"

Births

* January 27 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer (+ 1895)
* August 25 - Bret Harte American author (+ 1902)
* September 11 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow American author († 1870)
* Annie Louisa Walker, British writer (+ 1907)

Deaths

*April 7 - William Godwin, political writer and novelist
*November 5 - Karel Hynek Mácha, poet

Awards

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