1831 in literature
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[edit] Events
- January 15 - Victor Hugo completed his novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
- 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
- Honoré de Balzac - La Peau de chagrin
- Selina Davenport - The Queen's Page
- Benjamin Disraeli - The Young Duke
- Nikolai Gogol - Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
- Catherine Gore - The Tuileries
- Ann Hatton - Gerald Fitzgerald
- Victor Hugo - Notre Dame de Paris
- George Sand - Indiana
- Rosalia St. Clair - The Last of the Lyals
[edit] New drama
- Robert Montgomery Bird - Gladiator
[edit] Poetry
- Giacomo Leopardi - Canti
- Edgar Allan Poe - Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- John Stuart Mill - The Spirit of the Age
[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
