1834 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

• November 24 - George Sand begins her journal to Alfred de Musset.

[edit] New books

• William Harrison Ainsworth -Rookwood
• Honoré de Balzac - Le père Goriot
• Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Last Days of Pompeii
• Selina Davenport - Personation
• Benjamin Disraeli - The Infernal Marriage
• Catherine Gore - The Hamiltons
• Barbara Hofland - The Captives in India
• Frederick Marryat
  • Jacob Faithful
  • Peter Simple
• Frederick Maurice - Eustace Conway
• Aleksandr Pushkin - The Queen of Spades
• Rosalia St. Clair - The Pauper Boy
• Stendhal - Lucien Leuwen

[edit] New drama

• Alfred de Musset - Lorenzaccio

[edit] Poetry

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetical Works (last edition proofread by the author)

[edit] Non-fiction

• George Bancroft - History of the United States, volume 1
• David Crockett - A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett
• Lancelot Edward Threlkeld - An Australian Grammar

[edit] Births

• February 9 - Felix Dahn, author (+ 1912)
• March 24 - William Morris, English poet and designer (+ 1896)
• April 5 - Frank R. Stockton, short story writer (+ 1902)
• September 15 - Heinrich von Treitschke, historian (+ 1896)

[edit] Deaths

• February 12 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, theologian and philosopher
• July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, writer
• December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist
• September 16 - William Blackwood, Scottish publisher
• December - Thomas Malthus

[edit] Awards