1829 in literature
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See also: 1828 in literature, other events of 1829, 1830 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Louis Braille invents embossed printing that allows the blind to read.
[edit] New books
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton -Devereux
- Honoré de Balzac - The Chouans
- George Croly - Salathiel
- Catherine Gore - Romances of Real Life
- George Payne Rainsford James - Richelieu
- Frederick Marryat - The Naval Officer
- Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - Fate and Fortune
- Julia Pardoe - Lord Morcar of Hereward
- Thomas Love Peacock - The Misfortunes of Elphin
- Sir Walter Scott - Anne of Geierstein
[edit] New drama
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
- Victor Hugo - Marion Delorme
- Douglas William Jerrold - Black-Eyed Susan
- John Augustus Stone - Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags
[edit] Poetry
- Edgar Allan Poe - Al Araaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems
- Alfred Tennyson - Timbuctoo
[edit] Non-fiction
- Hans Christian Andersen - A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - On the Constitution of Church and State
- Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 1 (1st edition)
- Washington Irving - A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
- 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
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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
