1826 in literature

1826 in literature

The year 1826 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

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New books

*Selina Bunbury - "The Pastor's Tales"
*James Fenimore Cooper - "The Last of the Mohicans"
*Benjamin Disraeli - "Vivian Grey"
*Catherine Gore - "The Broken Heart"
*Ann Hatton - "Deeds of the Olden Time"
*Wilhelm Hauff - "Lichtenstein"
*Victor Hugo - "Bug-Jargal"
*T. H. Lister - "Granby"
*Anna Maria Porter - "Honor O'Hara"
*Jane Porter & Anna Maria Porter - "Tales Round a Winter Hearth"
*Ann Radcliffe - "Gaston de Blondeville"
*Sir Walter Scott - "Woodstock"
*Mary Shelley - "The Last Man"
*Alfred de Vigny - "Cinq-Mars"

New drama

*Joanna Baillie - "Martyr"
*Mary Russell Mitford - "Foscari"

Poetry

*Heinrich Heine - "Die Harzreise" ("The Heart's Journey")
*Robert Hetrick - "Poems and Songs of Robert Hetrick"

Non-fiction

*Alicia Lefanu - "Henry the Fourth of France"
*Abigail Mott - "Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color"

Births

* February 3 - Walter Bagehot
*February 16 - Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, poet
*May 10 - Johann Peter Hebel, short story writer and poet
* November 24 - Carlo Collodi

Deaths

*February 17 - Johann Philipp Gabler, theologian
*March 24 - Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, biographer of Mozart
*March 29 - Johann Heinrich Voss, poet and translator
*July 4 - Thomas Jefferson, philosopher, politician and author
*October 3 - Jens Immanuel Baggesen, poet
*"date unknown" - William Glen, poet
** Elsa Fougt, Swedish editor and publisher (b. 1744)

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