This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1829.
January 26 – First performance of Douglas Jerrold's comic nautical melodrama Black-Eyed Susan; or, All in the Downs at the Surrey Theatre in Lambeth, London; it will run for a new record of well over 150 performances.
January 29 – First complete performance of Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy (1808), adapted by August Klingemann, in Braunschweig.
October 29 – English actress Fanny Kemble makes her stage debut, as Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at her father's Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.
Louis Braille invents embossed printing that allows the blind to read.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton – Devereux
Honoré de Balzac – Les Chouans
Steen Steensen Blicher – The Rector of Veilbye (Præsten i Vejlbye)
William Nugent Glascock – Sailors and Saints, or Matrimonial Manœuvres
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or The Renunciants (Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, oder Die Entsagenden)
Catherine Gore – Romances of Real Life
Gerald Griffin – The Collegians
Victor Hugo – The Last Day of a Condemned Man (Le Dernier jour d'un condamné)
Washington Irving – Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
George Payne Rainsford James – Richelieu
Julia Pardoe – Lord Morcar of Hereward
Thomas Love Peacock (anonymously) – The Misfortunes of Elphin
Walter Scott (anonymously) – Anne of Geierstein
Frederick Marryat – The Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust (performed)
Victor Hugo – Marion Delorme
Douglas William Jerrold – Black-Eyed Susan
Charles Somerset – Shakspeare's Early Days
John Augustus Stone – Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags
Edgar Allan Poe – Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems
Alfred Tennyson – Timbuctoo
Henrik Wergeland
Digte, første Ring ("Poems, first circle")
Skabelsen, Mennesket og Messias ("Creation, Man and the Messiah")
Hans Christian Andersen – A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager (Fodrejse fra Holmens Canal til Østpynten af Amager i Aarene 1828 og 1829)
Thomas Carlyle – Signs of the Times
William Cobbett
The English Gardener
Advice to Young Men
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – On the Constitution of Church and State
Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 1 (1st edition)
Washington Irving – Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
Cornelio Saavedra – Memoria autógrafa
Philip Stanhope, Viscount 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
January 1 – Tommaso Salvini, Italian memoirist and actor (died 1915)
January 12 – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, née Mullins, Canadian novelist and poet (died 1879)
February 24 – Friedrich Spielhagen, German novelist (died 1911)
April 26 – Eva Brag, Swedish poet, novelist and journalist (died 1913)
March 4 – Samuel Rawson Gardiner, English historian (died 1902)
May 1 – José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (died 1877)
October 31 – Emma Tatham, English poet (died 1855)
September 12 – Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist and novelist (died 1900)
September 25 – William Michael Rossetti, English critic (died 1919)
December 8 – Henry Timrod, American poet (died 1867)
January 6 – Josef Dobrovský, Czech historian (born 1753)
January 11 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet and critic (born 1772)
January 15 – John Mastin, English memoirist, local historian and cleric (born 1747)
January 29 – István Pauli (Pável) Hungarian Slovene priest and writer (born 1760)
February 11 – Aleksander Griboyedov, Russian dramatist (killed by mob, born 1795)
July 7 – Jacob Friedrich von Abel, German philosopher (born 1751)
July 23 – Wojciech Bogusławski, Polish playwright and director (born 1757)
September 29 – Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont, political writer (born 1759)
October 10 – Maria Elizabetha Jacson, English writer on botany and gardening (born 1755)
Newdigate prize – Robert Stephen Hawker
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