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1837 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1837.

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Events

  • February 19 – German writer Georg Büchner (born 1813) dies of typhus in Zurich leaving his play Woyzeck unfinished.
  • June 16 – Charles Dickens is first introduced to the actor William Macready by John Forster backstage at a rehearsal of Othello.
  • July – English "peasant poet" John Clare first enters an asylum for the insane, at High Beach in Essex.
  • September – In Burton's Gentleman's Magazine (Philadelphia), William Evans Burton publishes an early example of the detective story, "The Secret Cell", featuring a London police officer and his wife.
  • October – First publication of the The United States Magazine and Democratic Review.
  • October 4 – Andreas Munch's first play, Kong Sverres Ungdom, opens the Christiania Theatre´s new building in Norway.
  • The Little, Brown and Company publishing house opens its doors in Boston, Massachusetts.

    • Fiction

  • W. Harrison Ainsworth – Crichton
  • Honoré de Balzac
  • Cesar Birotteau
  • Lost Illusions, Part I: The Two Poets
  • Richard Harris Barham – The Ingoldsby Legends (serialization begins in Bentley's Miscellany)
  • Robert Montgomery Bird – Nick of the Woods
  • Sara Coleridge – Phantasmion
  • Hendrik Conscience – In 't Wonderjaar 1566
  • Charles Dickens
  • Oliver Twist (serialization begins in Bentley's Miscellany, February)
  • The Pickwick Papers (serial publication concludes November; first book publication)
  • Benjamin Disraeli
  • Henrietta Temple
  • Venetia
  • Lady Mary Fox – An Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland
  • Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé – L'Influence d'un livre
  • Jeremias Gotthelf – Bauernspiegel
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne – Twice-Told Tales
  • Julia Kavanagh – Adele
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing as "L.E.L." – Ethel Churchill, or The Two Brides
  • Catharine Maria Sedgwick – Live and Let Live
  • Victor Séjour – Le Mulâtre (the earliest known work of African American fiction, published in Revue des Colonies, March)
  • Mary Shelley – Falkner

    • Children and young people

  • Hans Christian Andersen
  • "The Little Mermaid" (Den lille havfrue) and "The Emperor's New Clothes" (Kejserens nye Klæder) in Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection (Eventyr, fortalte for Børn), Third Booklet, April 7
  • Only a Fiddler
  • Frederick Marryat – Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend
  • Robert Southey – "The Story of the Three Bears" (in The Doctor)

    • Drama

  • Joanna Baillie – The Separation
  • Manuel Bretón de los Herreros – Muérete y verás
  • Robert Browning – Strafford: an historical tragedy
  • Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch – Los Amantes de Teruel
  • Henrik Hertz – Svend Dyrings Huus
  • Alfred de Musset – Un caprice
  • Jules-Édouard Alboize de Pujol – L'Idiote
  • Barnabas Rayner – The Dumb Man of Manchester

    • Poetry

  • José de Espronceda – El estudiante de Salamanca
  • Alphonse de Lamartine – Chute d'un ange
  • See also 1837 in poetry

    • Non-fiction

  • Charles Babbage – Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation
  • Charles Ball – Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, A Black Man
  • Bernard Bolzano – Wissenschaftslehre (Theory of Science)
  • Thomas Carlyle – The French Revolution: A History
  • Washington Irving – The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
  • Harriet Martineau – Society in America
  • William H. Prescott – The History of Ferdinand and Isabella
  • Martin Tupper – Proverbial Philosophy
  • Andrew Ure – A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
  • Adelbert von Chamisso – Über die Hawaiische Sprache (On the Hawaiian Language)

    • Births

  • January 23 – Agnes Maule Machar, Canadian novelist (died 1927)
  • February 24 – Rosalía de Castro, Spanish Galician poet and writer (died 1885)
  • March 1
  • Ion Creangă, Romanian raconteur (died 1889)
  • William Dean Howells, American realist novelist (died 1920)
  • March 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet (died 1907)
  • April 1 – Jorge Isaacs (Ferrer), Colombian writer, politician and explorer (died 1895)
  • April 5 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (died 1909)
  • June 9 – Anne Thackeray Ritchie, English novelist and essayist (died 1919)
  • June 28 – Petre P. Carp, Romanian politician, polemicist, and translator (died 1919)
  • October 15 – Leo Königsberger, German historian of science (died 1921)
  • December 10 – Edward Eggleston, American novelist and historian (died 1902)

    • Deaths

  • January 29 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (killed in duel, born 1799)
  • February 12 – Ludwig Börne, German Jewish political writer and satirist (born 1786)
  • March 9 – Alexandru Hrisoverghi, Moldavian writer and translator (tabes dorsalis, born 1811)
  • March 15 – Lukijan Mušicki, Serbian poet (born 1777)
  • June 12 – Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann, German bookseller (born 1765)
  • June 14 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (cholera, born 1798)
  • September 21 – Georg Ludolf Dissen, German philologist (born 1784)
  • October 19 – Hendrik Doeff, Dutch travel writer (born 1764)

    • In literature

  • Jules Verne's novel Family Without a Name (Famille-sans-nom, 1889) is set during the Lower Canada Rebellion opening this year.

    • References

    1837 in literature Wikipedia
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