1837 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New short stories 4 New drama 5 Poetry 6 Non-fiction 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 Awards

[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

• William Harrison Ainsworth -Crichton
• Hans Christian Andersen - Only a Fiddler
• Honoré de Balzac
  • Cesar Birotteau
  • Lost Illusions
• Robert Montgomery Bird - Nick of the Woods
• Benjamin Disraeli
  • Henrietta Temple
  • Venetia
• Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé -L'influence d'un livre
• Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice-Told Tales
• Julia Kavanagh - Adele
• Frederick Marryat - Snarleyyow
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Live and Let Live
• Mary Shelley - Falkner

[edit] New short stories

• Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice-Told Tales
• Victor Séjour - Le Mulâtre, the earliest known work of African-American fiction

[edit] New drama

• Joanna Baillie - The Separation

[edit] Poetry

• José de Espronceda - El estudiante de Salamanca
• 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

[edit] Awards