1833 in literature

The year 1833 in literature involved some significant literary events and new publications.

Events

• January - The Knickerbocker is established by Charles Fenno Hoffman as The Knickerbacker: or, New-York monthly magazine.
• c. January - Richard Bentley (publisher) issues the first collected edition of Jane Austen's novels.
• March 25 - Edmund Kean, playing Othello to the Iago of his son, Charles Kean, collapses on the stage of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, dying two months later.
• June 10 - Dramatic Authors Act passed in the United Kingdom granting playwrights copyright in their work.
• Summer - George Sand and Alfred de Musset begin a 2-year affair.^[1]
• September 15 - Poet Arthur Henry Hallam, a friend of Tennyson (and fiancé of his sister Emily), dies suddenly of a brain haemorrhage in Vienna aged 22. This year in his memory Tennyson writes "Ulysses" (completed October 20; published in Poems of 1842), Tithon (an early version of "Tithonus") and "The Two Voices" (originally entitled "Thoughts of a Suicide") and begins "Morte d'Arthur" (published 1842) and "Tiresias" (published 1885). In 1850 he will publish In Memoriam A.H.H.
• October 3 - Anglo-Irish actress Harriet Smithson marries French composer Hector Berlioz in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy in Paris.
• December 1 - Charles Dickens' first published work of fiction, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk", first of what will become Sketches by Boz, appears unsigned in the Monthly Magazine (London).
• Alphonse de Lamartine is elected a député of France.
• Parley's Magazine, an American periodical for young readers, publishes its first issue.
• Publication of The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, edited by George Long, begins in England.
• First of the Bridgewater Treatises, examining science in relation to God, is published in England.^[2]
• Publication of Mrs Favell Lee Mortimer's instructional text The Peep of Day, or, A series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving in England; this sells a million copies in 38 languages.^[3]

New Books

• Honoré de Balzac
  • Eugenie Grandet
  • Ferragus
  • Le Médecin de campagne ("The Country Doctor")
• Edward Bulwer - Godolphin
• Thomas Carlyle - Sartor Resartus
• Massimo D'Azeglio - Ettore Fieramosca
• Benjamin Disraeli - Alroy
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Outre-Mer
• Alfred de Musset (attributed) - Gamiani, ou deux nuits d'excès ("Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess")
• Aleksandr Pushkin - Eugene Onegin
• George Sand
  • Andréa
  • Jacques
  • Kouroglou / Épopée Persane
  • Lelia
  • Leone Leoni
  • Mattéa
• Michael Scott - Tom Cringle's Log

New drama

• Joseph von Eichendorff - The Wooers
• Aleksander Fredro - Maidens' Vows, or the Magnetism of the Heart (Śluby panieńskie, czyli magnetyzm serca)
• Aleksander Griboyedov - Woe from Wit (published posthumously with cuts)
• Victor Hugo
  • Lucrezia Borgia
  • Marie Tudor
• Johann Nestroy - Lumpaziva gabundus
• Eugène Scribe - Bertrand et Raton, ou l'art de conspirer

Poetry

• Robert Browning - Pauline
• Hartley Coleridge - Poems, songs and sonnets ^[4]
• Wilhelm Hey - Fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder (Fifty Fables for Children)
• Alfred Tennyson - Poems (including "The Lady of Shalott", 1st version)

• See also 1833 in poetry

Non-fiction

• Franz Bopp - Vergleichende Grammatik
• Godfrey Higgins - Anacalypsis
• Charles Lamb - Last Essays of Elia
• Webster's Revision of the Bible

Births

• January 23 – Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1907)
• August 9 – Emily Pepys, English child diarist (died 1877)
• October 19 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, "national poet" of Australia (died 1870)
• October 8 – Edmund Clarence Stedman, American poet and critic (died 1908)
• October 21 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and entrepreneur, creator of the Nobel Prize (died 1896)
• November 2 – Horace Howard Furness, American Shakespearean scholar (died 1912)
• November 6 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (died 1908)
• November 9 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer (died 1873)

Deaths

• January 14 – Gottlob Ernst Schulze, German philosopher (born 1761)
• February 3 – Nikolay Gnedich, Russian poet and translator (born 1784)
• February 4 – John O'Keeffe, Irish dramatist (born 1747)
• March 7 – Rahel Varnhagen, German literary hostess (born 1771)
• March 11 – Franz Passow, German classicist and lexicographer (born 1786)
• April 13 – Elisa von der Recke, German poet (born 1754)
• May 10 – François Andrieux, French man of letters and dramatist (born 1759)
• May 15 – Edmund Kean, English Shakespearean actor (born 1787)
• August 25 – Jean-Louis Laya, French dramatist (born 1761)
• September 7 – Hannah More, English religious writer and philanthropist (born 1745)
• September 15 – Arthur Hallam, English poet (born 1811)

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