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1830 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1830.

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Events

  • February – Barthold Georg Niebuhr's house burns down – but most of his books are saved.
  • February 25 – The première of Victor Hugo's play Hernani in Paris is marked by protests from an audience who recognise it as an attack on Classicism.
  • March 26 – The Book of Mormon is published by Joseph Smith in Palmyra, New York.
  • May 22Amos Bronson Alcott marries Abby May at King's Chapel, Boston (Massachusetts).
  • May 24Sarah Josepha Hale's Poems for Our Children, including "Mary's Lamb", with the verse "Mary Had a Little Lamb", is published by Marsh, Capen & Lyon in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • July 1Edgar Allan Poe matriculates as a cadet at the United States Military Academy, West Point.
  • August – François-René de Chateaubriand sacrifices his political career by refusing to swear an oath of allegiance to Louis-Philippe, and retires to write his memoirs.
  • Victor Cousin is elected to the Académie française.
  • James Mill becomes head of the London office of the British East India Company.
  • The English publishers Bradbury and Evans are established as printers by William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans.
  • Edward Moxon begins his own publishing business in London.
  • Elizabeth Vestris becomes the first female actor-manager in the history of London theatre by leasing the Olympic Theatre in Drury Lane where she presents extravaganzas and burlesques.
  • The famous opening line of Edward Bulwer's (anonymous) novel, Paul Clifford, published this year, begins: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
  • Fiction

  • Nathaniel Ames – A Mariner's Sketches
  • Honoré de Balzac
  • La Maison du chat-qui-pelote
  • La Vendetta
  • Le Bal de Sceaux
  • Gobseck
  • Edward Bulwer – Paul Clifford
  • James Fenimore CooperThe Water-Witch
  • Oliver Wendell HolmesOld Ironsides
  • Thomas Love PeacockCrotchet Castle
  • Anna Maria PorterThe Barony
  • Catharine Maria Sedgwick – A Tale of Our Times
  • Mary ShelleyThe Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
  • Louisa StanhopeThe Corsair's Bride
  • StendhalThe Red and the Black (French: Le Rouge et le Noir)
  • Princess Victoria – The Adventures of Alice Laselles (first published 2015)
  • Children

  • Frederick MarryatThe King's Own
  • Anna Maria HallChronicles of a School-Room
  • Drama

  • Henrik HertzAmor's Strokes of Genius (Amors Genistreger)
  • Douglas William JerroldThe Mutiny at the Nore
  • Jovan Sterija Popović – Laža i Paralaža
  • Aleksandr Pushkin
  • Mozart and Salieri (Моцарт и Сальери, Mozart i Salieri)
  • The Stone Guest (Каменный гость, Kamenny gost)
  • Sir Walter Scott
  • Auchindrane
  • The Doom of Devorgoil
  • Poetry

  • Alphonse de LamartineHarmonies poétiques et religieuses
  • Richard LowerTom Cladpole's Jurney to Lunnon, told by himself, and written in pure Sussex doggerel by his Uncle Tim
  • Alfred de MussetComtes d'Espagne et d'Italie
  • Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveLes Consolations
  • Alfred Tennyson – Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
  • Non-fiction

  • Jeremy BenthamConstitutional Code for All Nations
  • William CobbettRural Rides
  • Humphry Davy (posthumous) – Consolations in Travel; or, The Last Days of a Philosopher
  • Denis Diderot (posthumous) – La Promenade du sceptique
  • Jacob GrimmHymnorum veteris ecclesiae XXVI. inter pretatio theodisca
  • John Hughes, editor – The Boscobel Tracts
  • Samuel LeeSix Sermons on the Study of the Holy Scriptures, to Which are Annexed Two Dissertations
  • Charles LyellPrinciples of Geology, vol. 1
  • Thomas MooreLetters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of his Life
  • Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-MuskauBriefe eines Verstorbenen (4 volumes to 1831, Tour of a German Prince, 4 vols, 1831–32)
  • Joseph SmithThe Book of Mormon
  • Births

  • February 28James Payn, English novelist (died 1898)
  • March 15Paul Heyse, German writer and Nobel laureate (died 1914)
  • March 18Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, French historian (died 1889)
  • March 25Frederick Greenwood, English novelist and man of letters (died 1909)
  • April 6Eugène Rambert, Swiss poet and writer (died 1886)
  • May 20Hector Malot, French writer (died 1907)
  • July 22Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (died 1902)
  • September 8Frédéric Mistral, French poet (died 1914)
  • September 2Josefina Wettergrund, Swedish writer (died 1903)
  • December 5Christina Rossetti, English poet (died 1894)
  • December 10Emily Dickinson, American poet died 1886)
  • December 17Jules de Goncourt, French founder of Prix Goncourt (died 1870)
  • Unknown dateMary Anna Needell (Mrs. J. H. Needell), English novelist (died 1922)
  • Deaths

  • January – Wilhelm Waiblinger, German Romantic poet (born 1804)
  • February 15Prince Ioane of Georgia, Georgian encyclopedist (born 1768)
  • February 20Robert Anderson, Scottish literary editor, biographer and critic (born 1750)
  • February 25Henrietta Maria Bowdler, English author and expurgator (born 1750)
  • March 29James Rennell, English historian and oceanographer (born 1742)
  • April 16József Katona, Hungarian dramatist and poet (born 1791)
  • June 28 – David Walker, Africa-American abolitionist (born 1785)
  • August 20Vasily Pushkin, Russian poet (born 1766)
  • September 18William Hazlitt, English essayist (born 1778)
  • October 8Johann Gottfried Ebel, Prussian-born Swiss travel writer (born 1764)
  • November 20Gustav von Ewers, German legal historian (born 1781)
  • December 8Benjamin Constant, Swiss-born French liberal author (born 1767)
  • December 31Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, French dramatist and writer on education (born 1746)
  • Unknown date – Mary Diana Dods, Scottish writer known as "David Lyndsay", later "Walter Sholto Douglas" (born 1790)
  • Awards

  • Newdigate PrizeGeorge Kettilby Rickards
  • References

    1830 in literature Wikipedia


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