1836 in literature
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The year 1836 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- October 2 - HMS Beagle returns to the UK, and Charles Darwin is an instant celebrity.
[edit] New books
- Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed (January)
- Hans Christian Andersen - The Little Mermaid
- Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers
- Washington Irving - Astoria
- Frederick Marryat
- The Pirate
- Mr. Midshipman Easy
- The Three Cutters
- Alexander Pushkin - The Captain's Daughter
- Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, A Black Man
- Catharine Parr Traill - The Backwoods of Canada
- Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
- George Balcombe
- The Partisan Leader
[edit] New drama
- Georg Büchner - Leonce and Lena
[edit] New Short Stories
[edit] Poetry
- Robert Browning - "Porphyria's Lover"
- Oliver Wendell Holmes - Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature
- Washington Irving - Astoria
- G. W. M. Reynolds - Grace Darling
- Arthur Schopenhauer - Über den Willen in der Natur (On the Will in Nature)
[edit] Births
- January 27 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer (+ 1895)
- August 25 - Bret Harte American author (+ 1902)
- September 11 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow American author († 1870)
- Annie Louisa Walker, British writer (+ 1907)
[edit] Deaths
- April 7 - William Godwin, political writer and novelist
- November 5 - Karel Hynek Mácha, poet
