1837 in literature
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See also: 1836 in literature, other events of 1837, 1838 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- The Little, Brown and Company publishing house opens its doors.
- First publication of the The United States Magazine and Democratic Review.
[edit] New books
- Adele - Julia Kavanagh
- Cesar Birotteau - Honoré de Balzac
- Crichton - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Falkner - Mary Shelley
- Henrietta Temple - Benjamin Disraeli
- Live and Let Live - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
- Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
- Nick of the Woods - Robert Montgomery Bird
- Only a Fiddler - Hans Christian Andersen
- Snarleyyow - Frederick Marryat
- Venetia - Benjamin Disraeli
[edit] New short stories
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice-Told Tales
- Victor Séjour - Le Mulâtre, the earliest known work of African-American fiction
[edit] Poetry
- Alphonse de Lamartine - Chute d'un ange
[edit] Non-fiction
- Bernard Bolzano - The Philosophy of Logic
- Thomas Carlyle - The French Revolution, A History
- Harriet Martineau - Society in America
- William H. Prescott - The History of Ferdinand and Isabella
[edit] Births
- March 1 - William Dean Howells, writer (+ 1920)
- March 6 - Sully Prudhomme, poet (+ 1907)
- April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (+ 1909)
- December 10 - Edward Eggleston, novelist and historian
[edit] Deaths
- January 29 - Aleksandr Pushkin, poet (killed in a duel)
- February 12 - Ludwig Börne, political writer and satirist
- June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi, poet
