1831 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Awards

[edit] Events

• The play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "chauvinism."
• William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the Liberator, an abolitionist periodical.
• The Sydney Morning Herald is first published.

[edit] New books

• Gerald Fitzgerald - Anne Hatton
• Notre Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo
• The Last of the Lyals - Rosalia St. Clair
• The Queen's Page - Selina Davenport
• The Spirit of the Age - John Stuart Mill
• The Tuileries - Catherine Gore
• The Young Duke - Benjamin Disraeli

[edit] New drama

• Robert Montgomery Bird - Gladiator

[edit] Poetry

• Giacomo Leopardi - Canti
• Edgar Allan Poe - Poems

[edit] Births

• January 2 - Justin Winsor, historian and librarian (+ 1897)
• January 26 - Mary Mapes Dodge, writer (+ 1907)
• February 16 - Nikolai Leskov, novelist (+ 1895)
• August 1 - William Aldis Wright, literary editor (+ 1914)
• September 5 - Victorien Sardou, dramatist (+ 1908)
• October 15 - Helen Hunt Jackson, writer-activist (+ 1885)

[edit] Deaths

• January 2 - Barthold Georg Niebuhr, historian
• January 21 - Ludwig Achim von Arnim
• February 25 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, dramatist and novelist, originator of Sturm und Drang
• April 4 - Isaiah Thomas, publisher
• June 30 - William Roscoe, English poet
• December 18 - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author

[edit] Awards