1831 in literature

1831 in literature

The year 1831 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* January 15 - Victor Hugo completed his novel "Notre-Dame de Paris", known in English as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".
* The play "La Cocarde Tricolore" by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "chauvinism"."
*William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the "Liberator", an abolitionist periodical.
*"The Sydney Morning Herald" is first published.
*Alexander Pushkin marries Natalya Goncharova.

New books

*Honoré de Balzac
**"La Peau de chagrin"
**"Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu"
*Selina Davenport - "The Queen's Page"
*Benjamin Disraeli - "The Young Duke"
*Nikolai Gogol - "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka"
*Catherine Gore - "The Tuileries"
*Ann Hatton - "Gerald Fitzgerald"
*Victor Hugo - "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" ( _fr. Notre Dame de Paris)
*Washington Irving - "Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus"
*George Sand - "Indiana"
*Rosalia St. Clair - "The Last of the Lyals"

New drama

*Robert Montgomery Bird - "Gladiator"

Poetry

*Giacomo Leopardi - "Canti"
*Edgar Allan Poe - "Poems"

Non-fiction

*John Stuart Mill - "The Spirit of the Age"
*Washington Irving - "Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus"

Births

*January 2 - Justin Winsor, historian and librarian (+ 1897)
* January 26 - Mary Mapes Dodge, writer (+ 1907)
*February 16 - Nikolai Leskov, novelist (+ 1895)
*August 1 - William Aldis Wright, literary editor (+ 1914)
*September 5 - Victorien Sardou, dramatist (+ 1908)
* October 15 - Helen Hunt Jackson, writer-activist (+ 1885)

Deaths

*January 2 - Barthold Georg Niebuhr, historian
* January 21 - Ludwig Achim von Arnim
*February 25 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, dramatist and novelist, originator of "Sturm und Drang"
*April 4 - Isaiah Thomas, publisher
* June 30 - William Roscoe, English poet
* December 18 - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author

Awards

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