1837 in literature
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The year 1837 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- The Little, Brown and Company publishing house opens its doors.
- First publication of the The United States Magazine and Democratic Review.
[edit] New books
- William Harrison Ainsworth -Crichton
- Hans Christian Andersen - Only a Fiddler
- Honoré de Balzac
- Robert Montgomery Bird - Nick of the Woods
- Sara Coleridge - Phantasmion
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé -L'influence d'un livre
- Jeremias Gotthelf - Bauernspiegel
- Washington Irving - The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
- Julia Kavanagh - Adele
- Frederick Marryat - Snarleyyow
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Live and Let Live
- Mary Shelley - Falkner
[edit] New short stories
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice-Told Tales
- Victor Séjour - Le Mulâtre, the earliest known work of African-American fiction
[edit] New drama
- Joanna Baillie - The Separation
[edit] Poetry
- José de Espronceda - El estudiante de Salamanca
- Alphonse de Lamartine - Chute d'un ange
[edit] Non-fiction
- Bernard Bolzano - The Philosophy of Logic
- Thomas Carlyle - The French Revolution, A History
- Washington Irving - The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
- Harriet Martineau - Society in America
- William H. Prescott - The History of Ferdinand and Isabella
[edit] Births
- January 23 - Agnes Maule Machar, novelist (died 1927)
- March 1
- Ion Creangă, Romanian writer (died 1889)
- William Dean Howells, writer (died 1920)
- March 6 - Sully Prudhomme, poet (died 1907)
- April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (died 1909)
- October 15 - Leo Königsberger, historian of science (died 1921)
- December 10 - Edward Eggleston, novelist and historian (died 1902)
[edit] Deaths
- January 29 - Aleksandr Pushkin, poet (born 1799) (killed in a duel)
- February 12 - Ludwig Börne, political writer and satirist (born 1786)
- March 9 - Alexandru Hrisoverghi, Romanian-language writer and translator (born 1811)
- June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi, poet (born 1798) (cholera)
- September 21 - Georg Ludolf Dissen, philologist (born 1784)
- October 19 - Hendrik Doeff, travel writer (born 1764)
- date unknown
- Lukijan Mušicki, Serbian poet (born 1777)
- Mary Robinson, the "Maid of Buttermere" (born 1778)
