1831 In Literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1831.

Events

*January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the '' Liberator'', an abolitionist periodical in the United States.
*February 18 (old style) – Alexander Pushkin marries Natalya Goncharova at the Great Ascension Church on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow.
*March 16 – Victor Hugo's historical romantic Gothic novel ''Notre-Dame de Paris'', known in English as ''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (completed on January 15), is published by Gosselin in Paris.
*March 19 – The play ''La Cocarde Tricolore'' by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "''chauvinism''".
*April 18 – ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is first published.
*''unknown dates''
**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 three religious books in New York City, so originating of the firm of D. Appleton & Company.

New books

Fiction

*Honoré de Balzac
**''La Peau de chagrin''
**'' Sarrasine''
**'' Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu''
*John Brownlow – ''Hans Sloane: a tale''
* Selina Davenport – ''The Queen's Page''
* Benjamin Disraeli – ''The Young Duke''
* Susan Edmonstone Ferrier – ''Destiny''
* 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 (Notre Dame de Paris)''
*Thomas Love Peacock – ''Crotchet Castle''
*George Sand (as Amantine Aurore Dupin) and Jules Sandeau (as J. Sand) – ''Rose et Blanche''
*Mary Shelley – ''Frankenstein'' (revised 1-volume edition)

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 year)
*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''
*James Sheridan Knowles – '' Alfred the Great''
*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''
*James Cowles Prichard – ''Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations''
*Mary Prince – ''The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave''

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)
* February 25 – Jane G. Austin, American writer (died 1894)
*January 26 – Mary Mapes Dodge, American children's writer (died 1907)
*February 16 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian novelist and playwright (died 1895)
*March 29 – Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, English novelist and teacher (died 1919)
*April 9 – Clara Harrison Stranahan, American author and college founder (died 1905)
*April 19 – Mary Louise Booth, American writer, editor, and translator (died 1889)
*May 6 – Mary C. Ames, American writer (died 1884)
*June 7 – Amelia Edwards, English fiction writer and Egyptologist (died 1892)
*June 25 – Harriet Mann Miller, American author, naturalist, and ornithologist (died 1918)
*July 3 – Edmund Yates, Scottish writer (died 1894)
*July 5 – Cordelia A. Greene, American physician, reformer, benefactor (died 1905)
*July 7 – Jane Elizabeth Conklin, American religious writer and poet (died 1914)
*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 7 – Eleanor Kirk, American writer (died 1908)
* October 15 – Helen Hunt Jackson, American poet, writer and activist (died 1885)
*October 19 – Fanny Murdaugh Downing, American author and poet (died 1894)
*''unknown date'' – Nora Perry, American writer (died 1896)

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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