1829 in literature

1829 in literature

The year 1829 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* Louis Braille invents embossed printing that allows the blind to read.

New books

*Edward George Bulwer-Lytton -"Devereux"
*Honoré de Balzac - "Les Chouans"
*George Croly - "Salathiel"
*Catherine Gore - "Romances of Real Life"
*Washington Irving - "Chronicles of the Conquest of Granada"
*George Payne Rainsford James - "Richelieu"
*Frederick Marryat - "The Naval Officer"
*Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - "Fate and Fortune"
*Julia Pardoe - "Lord Morcar of Hereward"
*Thomas Love Peacock - "The Misfortunes of Elphin"
*Sir Walter Scott - "Anne of Geierstein"

New drama

*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "Faust"
*Victor Hugo - "Marion Delorme"
*Douglas William Jerrold - "Black-Eyed Susan"
*John Augustus Stone - "Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags"

Poetry

*Edgar Allan Poe - "Al Araaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems"
*Alfred Tennyson - "Timbuctoo"

Non-fiction

*Hans Christian Andersen - "A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager"
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "On the Constitution of Church and State"
*"Encyclopedia Americana", vol. 1 (1st edition)
*Washington Irving - "A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada"
*Lord Mahon - "Life of Belisarius"
*David Walker -"Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America"

Births

*January 1 - Tommaso Salvini, actor and memoirist
*February 24 - Friedrich von Spielhagen, novelist
*March 4 - Samuel Rawson Gardiner, historian
* March 16 - Sully Prudhomme, first Nobel Prize in Literature winner (+ 1907)
*May 1 - José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (d. 1877)
*September 12 - Charles Dudley Warner, essayist and novelist (d. 1900)
*September 25 - William Michael Rossetti, critic and founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
*December 8 - Henry Timrod, poet (d. 1867)

Deaths

*January 6 - Josef Dobrovský, historian
*January 11 - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, poet and critic
*February 11 - Alexandr Griboyedov, dramatist
*July 7 - Jacob Friedrich von Abel, philosopher
* September 29 - Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont, political writer

Awards

*Newdigate prize - Robert Stephen Hawker


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