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This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1826.

Events

January 15 – The French newspaper Le Figaro begins publication in Paris, initially as a weekly.
October – Tyrone Power gets his break as a principal Irish character actor at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.^[1]
October 17 – Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh marry^[2] in Edinburgh.
The Juvenile Miscellany, an American magazine for children, begins publishing in Boston. It lasts for ten years.
The Ballantyne printing business in Edinburgh crashes, ruining Sir Walter Scott as a principal investor. He undertakes to repay his creditors from his writings. His publisher Archibald Constable also fails.
The Hachette publishing business in Paris is established by Louis Christophe François Hachette.

Selina Bunbury – The Pastor's Tales
James Fenimore Cooper – The Last of the Mohicans
Alfred de Vigny – Cinq-Mars
Benjamin Disraeli – Vivian Grey
William Nugent Glascock – The Naval Sketch Book, or The Service Afloat and Ashore
Catherine Gore – The Broken Heart
Ann Hatton – Deeds of the Olden Time
Wilhelm Hauff
- Die Bettlerin vom Pont des Arts (The True Lover's Fortune; or, the Beggar of the Pont des Arts)
- Lichtenstein
- Märchen almanach auf das Jahr 1826 (Fairytale Almanac)
- Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan (Memoirs of Beelzebub, first part)
Victor Hugo – Bug-Jargal
Bernhard Severin Ingemann – Valdemar Seier: En historisk Roman (Valdemar the Victorious: an historical romance)
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
Horace (Horatio) Smith – Brambleyte House, or, Cavaliers and Roundheads^[3]
Alfred de Vigny – Cinq-Mars

Wilhelm Hauff – Märchen almanach auf das Jahr 1826 (Almanac of fairy tales from the year 1826)
Rosalia St. Clair – Obstinacy
Agnes Strickland – The Rival Crusoes, or, The Shipwreck: also A Voyage to Norway; and The Fisherman's Cottage: Founded on Facts

Burke's Landed Gentry
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Abigail Mott – Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color
Josiah Priest – The Wonders of Nature

February 3 – Walter Bagehot, English essayist and journalist (died 1877)
February 16 – Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, German poet and novelist (died 1886)
May 22 – Denys Corbet, Guernsey poet writing in Guernsey French and English (died 1909)
June 2 – Richard Holt Hutton, English essayist and journalist (died 1897)
September 8 – Addison Peale Russell, American essayist (died 1912)
November 24 – Carlo Collodi, Italian children's author (died 1890)
Unknown date – Thomas Chenery, Barbadian-born English scholar and editor (died 1884)

February 17 – Johann Philipp Gabler, German Protestant theologian (born 1753)
March 24 – Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, Danish music historian and biographer (born 1761)
March 29 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet and translator (born 1751)
June 19 – Elsa Fougt, Swedish editor and publisher (born 1744)
July 4 – Thomas Jefferson, American philosopher, politician and author (born 1743)
July 25 (July 13 O.S.) – Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (hanged, born 1795)
September 22 – Johann Peter Hebel, German short story writer and poet (born 1760)
October? – Elizabeth Meeke, English popular novelist (born 1761)
October 3 – Jens Immanuel Baggesen, Danish poet (born 1764)
October 19 – François-Joseph Talma, French actor (born 1763)
December – William Glen, Scottish poet (born 1789)

^ MacDonagh, Michael (2004). "Power, (William Grattan) Tyrone (1797–1841)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22671. Retrieved 2012-11-12. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ King, Steve (17 October 1826). "Carlyle, Marriage & Biography". Today in Literature. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
^ Fiona Robertson, "Smith, Horatio (1779–1849)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004)Retrieved 31 May 2016, pay-walled.