1831 in literature
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The year 1831 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] New books
- Honoré de Balzac
- 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 (French: 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
[edit] New drama
- Robert Montgomery Bird - Gladiator
[edit] Poetry
- Giacomo Leopardi - Canti
- Edgar Allan Poe - Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- John Stuart Mill - The Spirit of the Age
- Washington Irving - Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus
[edit] Births
- January 2 - Justin Winsor, historian and librarian (died 1897)
- January 26 - Mary Mapes Dodge, writer (died 1907)
- February 16 - Nikolai Leskov, novelist (died 1895)
- August 1 - William Aldis Wright, literary editor (died 1914)
- September 5 - Victorien Sardou, dramatist (died 1908)
- October 15 - Helen Hunt Jackson, writer-activist (died 1885)
[edit] Deaths
- January 2 - Barthold Georg Niebuhr, historian (born 1776)
- January 14 - Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (born 1745)
- 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
- October 2 - José Agostinho de Macedo, Portuguese poet (born 1761)
- December 18 - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author
- December 26 - Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Indian poet and teacher (born 1809)
