1829 in literature
See also: 1828 in literature, other events of 1829, 1830 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Louis Braille invents embossed printing that allows the blind to read.
New books
- Anne of Geierstein - Sir Walter Scott
- The Chouans - Honoré de Balzac
- A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada - Washington Irving
- Devereux - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
- Fate and Fortune - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
- A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager - Hans Christian Andersen
- The Misfortunes of Elphin - Thomas Love Peacock
- The Naval Officer - Frederick Marryat
- On the Constitution of Church and State - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Richelieu - George Payne Rainsford James
- Romances of Real Life - Catherine Gore
- Salathiel - George Croly
- The Young Duke - Benjamin Disraeli
New drama
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
- Victor Hugo - Marion Delorme
- Douglas William Jerrold - Black-Eyed Susan
Poetry
- Edgar Allan Poe - Al Araaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems
- Alfred Tennyson - Timbuctoo
Non-fiction
- 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
Categories
1829 books