1825 in literature

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The year 1825 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

February 19 – Franz Grillparzer's König Ottokars Glück und Ende ("The Fortune and Fall of King Ottokar", published 1823) is first performed, at the Burgtheater in Vienna, after Caroline Augusta, Empress of Austria, urges her husband to lift the censorship restrictions on it.
Henri Boulard (born 1754) dies, leaving behind one of the greatest book collections in history, with a library containing more than half a million books.
First publication of Samuel Pepys' Diary (1660–1669), edited by Lord Braybrooke from the transcription by Rev. John Smith.

Aleksander Griboyedov - Woe from Wit (part published)
James Sheridan Knowles - William Tell
Harriet Lee - The Three Strangers
Alexander Pushkin - Boris Godunov (published 1831, but approved for staging only in 1866)

January 11 – Bayard Taylor, American poet (died 1878)
February 18 – Mór Jókai, Hungarian novelist and dramatist (died 1904)
March 3 – Annie Keary, English novelist, poet and children's writer (died 1879)
April 20 – Emma Jane Guyton (Worboise), English novelist and magazine editor (died 1887)
April 24 – R. M. Ballantyne, Scottish writer of juvenile fiction (died 1894)
June 7 – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist (died 1900)
July 2 – Richard Henry Stoddard, American critic and poet (died 1903)
October 19 – Jeanette Granberg, Swedish playwright and translator (died 1857)

March 9 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, essayist and children's author (born 1743)
April 23 – Maler Müller, German poet, dramatist and painter (born 1749)
June 4 – Morris Birkbeck, American writer and social reformer (born 1764)
August 10 – Joseph Harris (Gomer), Welsh poet and journalist (born 1773)
November 7 – Charlotte Dacre, English poet and Gothic novelist (born c. 1771)
November 25 – Desfontaines-Lavallée, French novelist and dramatist (born 1733)
Unknown dates
- Huang Peilie, Chinese bibliophile (born 1763)^[1]
- Shen Fu (沈復), Chinese novelist and chronicler (born 1763)