1830 in literature
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See also: 1829 in literature, other events of 1830, 1831 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Amos Bronson Alcott marries Abby May.
- Edgar Allan Poe takes up an appointment at the United States Military Academy, West Point.
- François-René de Chateaubriand sacrifices his political career by refusing to swear an oath of allegiance to Louis-Philippe, and retires to write his memoirs.
- James Mill becomes head of India House.
- Victor Cousin is elected to the Académie française.
- Barthold Georg Niebuhr's house burns down - but most of his books are saved.
[edit] New books
- Nathaniel Ames - A Mariner's Sketches
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Devereux
- Paul Clifford
- James Fenimore Cooper - The Water-Witch
- Oliver Wendell Holmes - Old Ironsides
- Frederick Marryat - The King's Own
- Thomas Love Peacock - Crotchet Castle
- Anna Maria Porter - The Barony
- Rosalia St. Clair - The Admiral and His Protégé
- Sir Walter Scott
- Auchindrane
- The Doom of Devorgoil
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick - A Tale of Our Times
- Mary Shelley - The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
- Louisa Stanhope - The Corsair's Bride
- Stendhal - Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)
[edit] New drama
- Henrik Hertz - Amor's Strokes of Genius
- Aleksandr Pushkin - The Stone Guest
[edit] Poetry
- Alphonse de Lamartine - Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
- Alfred de Musset - Comtes d'Espagne et d'Italie
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve - Les Consolations
- Alfred Tennyson - Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
[edit] Non-fiction
- Jeremy Bentham - Constitutional Code for All Nations
- William Cobbett - Rural Rides
- Jacob Grimm - Hymnorum veteris ecclesiae XXVI. inter pretatio theodisca
- Thomas Moore - Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of his Life
- Joseph Smith, Jr. - The Book of Mormon
[edit] Births
- March 15 - Paul Heyse, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1910 (+ 1914)
- March 18 - Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, historian (+ 1889)
- April 6 - Eugène Rambert, Swiss author
- May 20: Hector Malot, French writer of Without family (+ 1907)
- July 22 - Richard Copley Christie, scholar
- September 8 - Frédéric Mistral, poet
- December 5 - Christina Rossetti (+ 1894) English poet
- December 10 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (+ 1886)
- December 17 - Jules de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt (+ 1870)
[edit] Deaths
- January 17 - Wilhelm Waiblinger, poet
- February 6 - Spencer Walpole, historian
- February 15 - Ioane Bagrationi, encyclopedist
- February 20 - Robert Anderson, literary critic
- March 29 - James Rennell, historian and oceanographer
- June 28 - David Walker, abolitionist, author of the pamphlet Walker's Appeal
- September 18 - William Hazlitt, British essayist
- December 8 - Benjamin Constant, liberal author
- December 31 - The comtesse de Genlis, dramatist and writer on education
- date unknown - Johann Gottfried Ebel, travel writer
- date unknown - Angus George Harcourt Perry, poet
- date unknown - Gustav von Ewers, legal historian
