1834 in literature

1834 in literature

The year 1834 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* November 24 - George Sand begins her journal to Alfred de Musset.

New books

*William Harrison Ainsworth -"Rookwood"
*Honoré de Balzac - "Le père Goriot"
*Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - "The Last Days of Pompeii"
*Selina Davenport - "Personation"
*Benjamin Disraeli - "The Infernal Marriage"
*Catherine Gore - "The Hamiltons"
*Barbara Hofland - "The Captives in India"
*Frederick Marryat
**"Jacob Faithful"
**"Peter Simple"
*Frederick Maurice - "Eustace Conway"
*Aleksandr Pushkin - "The Queen of Spades"
*Rosalia St. Clair - "The Pauper Boy"
*Stendhal - "Lucien Leuwen"

New drama

*Alfred de Musset - "Lorenzaccio"

Poetry

*Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "Poetical Works" (last edition proofread by the author)

Non-fiction

*George Bancroft - "History of the United States", volume 1
*David Crockett - "A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett"
*Lancelot Edward Threlkeld - "An Australian Grammar"

Births

* February 9 - Felix Dahn, author (+ 1912)
* March 24 - William Morris, English poet and designer (+ 1896)
*April 5 - Frank R. Stockton, short story writer (+ 1902)
*September 15 - Heinrich von Treitschke, historian (+ 1896)

Deaths

*February 12 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, theologian and philosopher
* July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, writer
* December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist
* September 16 - William Blackwood, Scottish publisher
* December - Thomas Malthus

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