1832 in literature

1832 in literature

The year 1832 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* The Houghton Mifflin publishing house founded in Boston, Massachusetts
* Publishers begin the use of a paper jacket to wrap book covers
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe completes "Faust"
* Washington Irving returns to the United States, after living abroad for seventeen years.
* "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine" begins publication.

New books

*Nathaniel Ames - "Nautical Reminiscences"
*Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - "Eugene Aram"
*Selina Davenport - "The Unchanged"
*Benjamin Disraeli - "Contarini Fleming"
*Catherine Gore
**"The Fair of Mayfair"
**"The Opera"
*Robert Huish - "Fitzallan"
*Washington Irving - "Tales of the Alhambra"
*Frederick Marryat - "Newton Forster"
*Alexander Pushkin - "Dubrovsky"
*Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve -"Volupte"
*George Sand - "Valentine"
*Sir Walter Scott
**"Castle Dangerous"
**"Count Robert of Paris"
*Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - "Combination"
*Rosalia St. Clair - "The Doomed One"

New drama

*Casimir Delavigne - "Louis XI"
*Victor Hugo - "Le roi s'amuse"

Poetry

*James Henry Leigh Hunt - "Poetical Works"
*Aleksandr Pushkin - "Eugene Onegin"
*Alfred Tennyson - "The Lady of Shalott"

Non-fiction

*John Austin -"The Province of Jurisprudence Determined"
*Carl von Clausewitz - "On War (Vom Kriege)" (published posthumously)
*Lord Mahon - "History of the War of Succession in Spain"

Births

* January 13 - Horatio Alger, Jr., writer (+ 1899)
* January 27 - Lewis Carroll, author (+ 1898)
* June 10 - Sir Edwin Arnold, poet (+ 1904)
* June 11 – Jules Vallés, writer (+ 1885)
* November 29 - Louisa May Alcott, author (+ 1888)
* December 8 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Nobel Prize-winning novelist (+ 1910)
* Hesba Stretton, English children's author (+ 1911)

Deaths

*February 3 - George Crabbe, poet
* March 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer and poet
* September 21 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet
* November 14 - Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish philologist
*December 18 - Philip Morin Freneau, poet

Awards

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