1837 in literature

Ask a question about '1837 in literature' Start a new discussion about '1837 in literature' Answer questions from other users Full Discussion Forum

Events

• The Little, Brown and Company
  Little, Brown and Company
  
  Little, Brown and Company is a Publishing established by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown . Since 2006 it has been a constituent unit of Hachette Livre....
   publishing house opens its doors.
• First publication of the The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
  The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
  
  The United States Magazine and Democratic Review was a periodical published from 1837?1859 by John L. O'Sullivan. Its motto, "The best government is that which governs least," was famously paraphrased by Henry David Thoreau in On the Duty of Civil Disobedience....
  .

New books

• William Harrison Ainsworth
  William Harrison Ainsworth
  
  William Harrison Ainsworth was an England historical novelist born in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession had no attraction for him....
   -Crichton
• Hans Christian Andersen
  Hans Christian Andersen
  
  Hans Christian Andersen , also known as simply H. C. Andersen ); was a Denmark author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. Among his best-known stories are "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Red Shoes "....
   - Only a Fiddler
• Honoré de Balzac
  Honoré de Balzac
  
  Honor? de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a Novel sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Com?die humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napol?on Bonaparte in 1815....
  
• Cesar Birotteau
• Lost Illusions
  Les Illusions perdues
  
  Illusions perdues is the name of two separate novels written by the France writer Honor? de Balzac, one in 1837 in literature and one in 1839 in literature....
  
• Robert Montgomery Bird
  Robert Montgomery Bird
  
  Robert Montgomery Bird was an United States novelist, playwright, photographer, and physician....
   - Nick of the Woods
• Benjamin Disraeli
• Henrietta Temple
• Venetia
• Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé
  Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé
  
  Philippe-Ignace-Francois Aubert de Gasp?, or simply Philippe Aubert de Gasp? was a Canada writer and is credited with writing the first French Canadian novel....
   -L'influence d'un livre
  L'influence d'un livre
  
  The Influence of a Book is a novel by the Canadian writer Phillipe-Ignace Fran?ois Aubert du Gasp?. It is considered to be the first French Canadian novel, and although the book was not well received initially, it has come to be recognized as a major landmark in Canadian literature....
  
• Jeremias Gotthelf
  Jeremias Gotthelf
  
  Albert Bitzius , Switzerland novelist, best known by his pen name of Jeremias Gotthelf, was born at Murten, where his father was pastor....
   - Bauernspiegel
• Washington Irving
  Washington Irving
  
  Washington Irving was an United States author, essays, biography and history of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmi...
   - The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
  Benjamin Bonneville
  
  Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville was a France-born officer in the United States Army, fur trade, and explorer in the American West. He is noted for his expeditions to the Oregon Country and the Great Basin, and in particular for blazing portions of the Oregon Trail....
  
• Julia Kavanagh
  Julia Kavanagh
  
  Julia Kavanagh was an Irish novelist, born at Thurles in Tipperary, Ireland.She was the daughter of Morgan Peter Kavanagh , author of various philological works and some poems....
   - Adele
• Frederick Marryat
  Frederick Marryat
  
  Captain Frederick Marryat was an England novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story....
   - Snarleyyow
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Live and Let Live
• Mary Shelley
  Mary Shelley
  
  Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel literature, best known for her Gothic fiction Frankenstein ....
   - Falkner
  Falkner (novel)
  
  Falkner is the last novel published by the Romanticism writer Mary Shelley.Like Shelley's novel Lodore , Falkner charts a young woman's education under a tyrannical father figure....
  

• Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
  Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne....
   - Twice-Told Tales
  Twice-Told Tales
  
  Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in the spring of 1837. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name....
  
• Victor Séjour
  Victor Séjour
  
  Juan Victor S?jour Marcou et Ferrand was an United States expatriate writer who worked in France. Though mostly unknown to later African American authors, his short story "Le Mul?tre" is the earliest known work of fiction by an African American author....
   - Le Mulâtre, the earliest known work of African-American fiction

• Joanna Baillie
  Joanna Baillie
  
  Joanna Baillie was a Scottish people poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage....
   - The Separation

• José de Espronceda
  José de Espronceda
  
  File:Jose de espronceda.jpgJos? de Espronceda, baptised Jos? Ignacio Javier Oriol Encarnaci?n de Espronceda y Delgado was among the most important Spain Spanish Romance literature poets of the 19th century....
   - El estudiante de Salamanca
  El estudiante de Salamanca
  
  The Student of Salamanca is a work by Spain Romantic poetry poet Jos? de Espronceda. It was published in fragments beginning in 1837, and remains incomplete....
  
• Alphonse de Lamartine
  Alphonse de Lamartine
  
  Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine was a France writer, poet and politician.Born in M?con, Burgundy into French provincial nobility, he spent his youth at the family property at Milly-Lamartine....
   - Chute d'un ange

• Bernard Bolzano
  Bernard Bolzano
  
  Bernhard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano , Bernard Bolzano in English, was a Bohemian mathematician, theology, philosopher, logician and antimilitarism of German language mother tongue....
   - The Philosophy of Logic
• Thomas Carlyle
  Thomas Carlyle
  
  Thomas Carlyle was a Scotland satire writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era.He called economics the "dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator....
   - The French Revolution, A History
• Washington Irving
  Washington Irving
  
  Washington Irving was an United States author, essays, biography and history of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmi...
   - The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
• Harriet Martineau
  Harriet Martineau
  
  Harriet Martineau was an England writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist....
   - Society in America
• William H. Prescott
  William H. Prescott
  
  William Hickling Prescott was an American historian, known for his books The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic and The History of the Conquest of Mexico....
   - The History of Ferdinand and Isabella

• January 29 - Aleksandr Pushkin
  Aleksandr Pushkin
  
  Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romanticism era who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature....
  , poet (b. 1799) (killed in a duel)
• February 12 - Ludwig Börne
  Ludwig Börne
  
  Karl Ludwig B?rne was a Germany political writer and satirist.He was born Loeb Baruch at Frankfurt am Main, where his father, Jakob Baruch, carried on the business of a banker....
  , political writer and satirist (b. 1786)
• March 9 - Alexandru Hrisoverghi
  Alexandru Hrisoverghi
  
  Alexandru Hrisoverghi was a Moldavian Romanian-language poet and translator, whose work was influenced by Romanticism. The author of few Lyric poem works, he was foremost noted for his association with political and intellectual figures such as Mihail Kogalniceanu, Costache Negruzzi, Vasile C?rlova, and Grigore Crupenschi....
  , Romanian-language writer and translator (b. 1811)
• June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi
  Giacomo Leopardi
  
  Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist....
  , poet (b. 1798) (cholera)
• September 21 - Georg Ludolf Dissen
  Georg Ludolf Dissen
  
  Georg Ludolf Dissen was a German classical philologist who was a native of Gro? Schneen, a village near G?ttingen.He studied classical philology at the University of G?ttingen, where one of his instructors was Christian Gottlob Heyne ....
  , philologist (b. 1784)
• October 19 - Hendrik Doeff
  Hendrik Doeff
  
  Hendrik Doeff was the Dutch commissioner in the Dejima trading post in Nagasaki, Nagasaki, during the first years of the 19th century.Born in Amsterdam, he sailed to Japan as a scribe for the Dutch East India Company....
  , travel writer (b. 1764)
• date unknown
• Lukijan Mušicki
  Lukijan Mušicki
  
  Lukijan Mu?icki was a famous Serbs prose writer, poet, and polyglot.References* ...
  , Serbian poet (b. 1777)
• Mary Robinson
  Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere)
  
  Mary Robinson was known as "The Maid of Buttermere", is the subject of Melvyn Bragg's novel of that name, and is mentioned in William Wordsworth's The Prelude....
  , the "Maid of Buttermere" (b. 1778)

Awards