This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1825.
February 19 – Franz Grillparzer's König Ottokars Glück und Ende ("The Fortune and Fall of King Ottokar", published 1823) is first performed, at the Burgtheater in Vienna, after Caroline Augusta, Empress of Austria, urges her husband Francis I of Austria to lift the censorship restrictions on it.
May 6–June 15 – The two youngest Brontë sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, die of consumption contracted at Cowan Bridge School at home at Haworth Parsonage aged 11 and 9 respectively.
May 6 – French bibliophile, translator, lawyer and politician Henri Boulard (born 1754) dies, leaving behind one of the greatest book collections in history, with a library containing more than half a million books.
First publication of Samuel Pepys' Diary (1660–1669), edited by Lord Braybrooke from the transcription by Rev. John Smith.
John and Michael Banim – Tales of the O'Hara Family
Lydia Maria Child – The Rebels
Sarah Green – Parents and Wives
Wilhelm Hauff – Der Mann im Mond (The Man in the Moon)
Barbara Hofland – Moderation
Henrietta Rouviere Mosse – A Father's Love and a Woman's Friendship
Sir Walter Scott
The Betrothed
The Talisman
R. P. Ward – Man of Refinement
Maria Hack –English Stories. Third Series, Reformation under the Tudor Princes
Aleksander Griboyedov – Woe from Wit (part published)
James Sheridan Knowles – William Tell
Harriet Lee – The Three Strangers
Alexander Pushkin – Boris Godunov (published 1831, but approved for stage only in 1866)
Felicia Hemans – The Forest Sanctuary
Esaias Tegnér – Frithiol's Saga
Brillat Savarin – Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Aids to Reflection
William Hazlitt – The Spirit of the Age
Sarah Kemble Knight – The Journal of Madam Knight
John Claudius Loudon – The Encyclopaedia of Agriculture
Thomas Moore – Memoirs of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
January 11 – Bayard Taylor, American poet (died 1878)
February 18 – Mór Jókai, Hungarian novelist and dramatist (died 1904)
March 3 – Annie Keary, English novelist, poet and children's writer (died 1879)
April 3 – William Billington, English poet and publican (died 1884)
April 20 – Emma Jane Guyton (Worboise), English novelist and magazine editor (died 1887)
April 24 – R. M. Ballantyne, Scottish writer of juvenile fiction (died 1894)
June 7 – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist (died 1900)
July 2 – Richard Henry Stoddard, American critic and poet (died 1903)
October 19 – Jeanette Granberg, Swedish playwright and translator (died 1857)
March 9 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, essayist and children's author (born 1743)
April 23 – Maler Müller, German poet, dramatist and painter (born 1749)
June 4 – Morris Birkbeck, American writer and social reformer (born 1764)
June 11 – Helen Craik, Scottish novelist and poet (born c. 1751)
August 10 – Joseph Harris (Gomer), Welsh poet and journalist (born 1773)
November 7 – Charlotte Dacre, English poet and Gothic novelist (born c. 1771)
November 25 – Desfontaines-Lavallée, French novelist and dramatist (born 1733)
December 5 – Mary Whateley (Mary Darwall), English poet (born 1738)
Unknown dates
Huang Peilie (黄丕烈), Chinese bibliophile (born 1763)
Shen Fu (沈復), Chinese novelist and chronicler (born 1763)
Chancellor's Gold Medal – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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