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1831 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1831.

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Events

  • January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the Liberator, an abolitionist periodical in the United States.
  • January 15 – Victor Hugo completes his novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
  • February 18 (old style) – Alexander Pushkin marries Natalya Goncharova at the Great Ascension Church on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow.
  • March 19 – The play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "chauvinism".
  • April 18 – The Sydney Morning Herald is first published.
  • Convict Henry Savery's autobiographical fiction Quintus Servinton: a tale founded upon incidents of real occurrence is published anonymously in Tasmania, the first Australian novel.
  • Playwright Manuel Bretón de los Herreros publishes a translation of Tibullus which secures him an appointment as sub-librarian at the Spanish national library (Biblioteca Pública de Palacio).
  • Daniel Appleton publishes his first book in New York City, origins of the firm of D. Appleton & Company.

    • Fiction

  • Honoré de Balzac
  • La Peau de chagrin
  • Sarrasine
  • Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu
  • Selina Davenport – The Queen's Page
  • Benjamin Disraeli – The Young Duke
  • Nikolai Gogol – Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
  • Catherine Gore
  • Mothers and Daughters
  • Pin Money
  • The School for Coquettes
  • The Tuileries
  • Ann Hatton – Gerald Fitzgerald
  • Victor Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French: Notre Dame de Paris)
  • Thomas Love Peacock – Crotchet Castle
  • Amantine Aurore Dupin and Jules Sandeau (as J. Sand) – Rose et Blanche

    • Children

  • Anne Knight – Mary Gray. A tale for little girls

    • Drama

  • Robert Montgomery Bird – Gladiator
  • Manuel Bretón de los Herreros – Marcela o ¿Cuál de las tres?
  • Dulduityn Danzanravjaa – Saran khökhöö ("Moon Cuckoo"; approximate date)
  • Alfred de Vigny – La Maréchale d'Ancre
  • Franz Grillparzer – Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen ("Waves of the Sea and of Love")
  • Victor Hugo – Marion Delorme
  • Alexander Pushkin – Boris Godunov (Борис Годунов, published)
  • John Augustus Stone – Tancred, King of Sicily
  • Robert Taylor – Swing, or, Who Are the Incendiaries?

    • Poetry

  • Thomas Hood – The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer
  • Giacomo Leopardi – Canti
  • Edgar Allan Poe – Poems

    • Non-fiction

  • Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet – The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences
  • Washington Irving – Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus
  • John Stuart Mill – The Spirit of the Age (Mill)|The Spirit of the Age

    • Births

  • January 2 – Justin Winsor, American historian and librarian (died 1897)
  • January 3 – George Manville Fenn, English novelist and educationalist (died 1909)
  • January 14 – John Cordy Jeaffreson, English novelist and non-fiction writer (died 1901)
  • January 26 – Mary Mapes Dodge, American children's writer (died 1907)
  • February 16 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian novelist and playwright (died 1895)
  • June 7 – Amelia Edwards, English fiction writer and Egyptologist (died 1892)
  • July 3 – Edmund Yates, Scottish writer (died 1894)
  • August 1 – William Aldis Wright, English writer and literary editor (died 1914)
  • September 5 – Victorien Sardou, French dramatist (died 1908)
  • September 12 – Álvares de Azevedo, Brazilian Ultra-Romantic writer (died 1852)
  • October 15 – Helen Hunt Jackson, American poet, writer and activist (died 1885)

    • Deaths

  • January 2 – Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Danish-born German historian (born 1776)
  • January 14 – Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (born 1745)
  • January 21 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet and novelist (heart attack, born 1781)
  • February 25 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German dramatist and novelist, originator of Sturm und Drang (born 1752)
  • April 4 – Isaiah Thomas, American publisher (born 1749)
  • June 30 – William Roscoe, English poet (born 1753)
  • September 12 – Jippensha Ikku (十返舎 一九), Japanese novelist and humorist (born 1765)
  • October 2 – José Agostinho de Macedo, Portuguese poet (born 1761)
  • December 18 – Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author (born 1756)
  • December 26 – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Indian poet and teacher (born 1809)

    • Awards

  • Chancellor's Gold Medal – George Stovin Venables

    • References

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