1829 in literature

1829 in literature
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The year 1829 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

Louis Braille invents embossed printing that allows the blind to read.

New books

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton -Devereux
Honoré de Balzac - Les Chouans
George Croly - Salathiel
Catherine Gore - Romances of Real Life
Washington Irving - Chronicles of the Conquest of Granada
George Payne Rainsford James - Richelieu
Frederick Marryat - The Naval Officer
Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - Fate and Fortune
Julia Pardoe - Lord Morcar of Hereward
Thomas Love Peacock - The Misfortunes of Elphin
Sir Walter Scott - Anne of Geierstein

New drama

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
Victor Hugo - Marion Delorme
Douglas William Jerrold - Black-Eyed Susan
John Augustus Stone - Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags

Poetry

Edgar Allan Poe - Al Araaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems
Alfred Tennyson - Timbuctoo

Non-fiction

Hans Christian Andersen - A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - On the Constitution of Church and State
Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 1 (1st edition)
Washington Irving - A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
Lord 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

Births

January 1 - Tommaso Salvini, actor and memoirist
February 24 - Friedrich von Spielhagen, novelist
March 4 - Samuel Rawson Gardiner, historian
March 16 - Sully Prudhomme, first Nobel Prize in Literature winner (+ 1907)
May 1 - José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (d. 1877)
September 12 - Charles Dudley Warner, essayist and novelist (d. 1900)
September 25 - William Michael Rossetti, critic and founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
December 8 - Henry Timrod, poet (d. 1867)

Deaths

January 6 - Josef Dobrovský, historian
January 11 - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, poet and critic
February 11 - Alexandr Griboyedov, dramatist
July 7 - Jacob Friedrich von Abel, philosopher
September 29 - Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont, political writer

Awards

Newdigate prize - Robert Stephen Hawker

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