1831 in literature

List of years in literature (table)
... 1821 ^. 1822 ^. 1823 ^. 1824 ^. 1825 ^. 1826 ^. 1827 ... 1828 1829 1830 -1831- 1832 1833 1834 ... 1835 ^. 1836 ^. 1837 ^. 1838 ^. 1839 ^. 1840 ^. 1841 ... In poetry: 1828 1829 1830 -1831- 1832 1833 1834

Art ^. Archaeology ^. Architecture ^. Literature ^. Music ^. Philosophy ^. Science +...

The year 1831 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

January 1 - William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the Liberator, an abolitionist periodical in the United States.
January 15 - Victor Hugo completes his novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
February 18 (old style) - Alexander Pushkin marries Natalya Goncharova at the Great Ascension Church on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow.
March 19 - The play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "chauvinism".^[1]
April 18 - The Sydney Morning Herald is first published.
Convict Henry Savery's autobiographical fiction Quintus Servinton: a tale founded upon incidents of real occurrence is published anonymously in Tasmania, the first Australian novel.^[2]
Playwright Manuel Bretón de los Herreros publishes a translation of Tibullus which secures him an appointment as sub-librarian at the Spanish national library (Biblioteca Pública de Palacio).
Daniel Appleton publishes his first book in New York City, origins of the firm of D. Appleton & Company.

Honoré de Balzac
- La Peau de chagrin
- Sarrasine
- Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu
Selina Davenport - The Queen's Page
Benjamin Disraeli - The Young Duke
Nikolai Gogol - Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
Catherine Gore
- Mothers and Daughters^[3]
- Pin Money^[3]
- The School for Coquettes
- The Tuileries
Ann Hatton - Gerald Fitzgerald
Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French: Notre Dame de Paris)
Thomas Love Peacock - Crotchet Castle
"J. Sand" (Amantine Aurore Dupin and Jules Sandeau) - Rose et Blanche

Robert Montgomery Bird - Gladiator
Manuel Bretón de los Herreros - Marcela o ¿Cuál de las tres?
Dulduityn Danzanravjaa - Saran khökhöö ("Moon Cuckoo"; approximate date)
Franz Grillparzer - Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen ("Waves of the Sea and of Love")
Victor Hugo - Marion Delorme
Alexander Pushkin - Boris Godunov (Борис Годунов, published)
John Augustus Stone - Tancred, King of Sicily

January 2 – Justin Winsor, American historian and librarian (died 1897)
January 3 – George Manville Fenn, English novelist and educationalist (died 1909)
January 26 – Mary Mapes Dodge, American children's writer (died 1907)
February 16 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian novelist and playwright (died 1895)
July 3 – Edmund Yates, Scottish writer (died 1894)
August 1 – William Aldis Wright, English writer and literary editor (died 1914)
September 5 – Victorien Sardou, French dramatist (died 1908)
October 15 – Helen Hunt Jackson, American poet, writer and activist (died 1885)

January 2 – Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Danish-born German historian (born 1776)
January 14 – Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (born 1745)
January 21 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet and novelist (heart attack, born 1781)
February 25 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German dramatist and novelist, originator of Sturm und Drang (born 1752)
April 4 – Isaiah Thomas, American publisher (born 1749)
June 30 – William Roscoe, English poet (born 1753)
October 2 – José Agostinho de Macedo, Portuguese poet (born 1761)
December 18 – Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author (born 1756)
December 26 – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Indian poet and teacher (born 1809)