1834 in literature
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The year 1834 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
- August - Charles Dickens first uses the pen name "Boz".
- November 24 - George Sand begins her journal to Alfred de Musset.
New books
- W. Harrison Ainsworth - Rookwood
- Carl Jonas Love Almquist - Drottningens juvelsmycke
- Honoré de Balzac -
- Edward Bulwer - The Last Days of Pompeii
- Selina Davenport - Personation
- Benjamin Disraeli - The Infernal Marriage
- Catherine Gore - The Hamiltons
- Barbara Hofland - The Captives in India
- Frederick Marryat
- Jacob Faithful
- Peter Simple
- Frederick Maurice - Eustace Conway
- Aleksandr Pushkin - The Queen of Spades (Russian: Пиковая дама; translit. Pikovaya dama)
- Rosalia St. Clair - The Pauper Boy
New drama
- Alfred de Musset - Lorenzaccio
- Franz Grillparzer - Der Traum, ein Leben ("The Dream, a life")
- Juliusz Słowacki
Poetry
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetical Works (last edition proofread by the author)
- Adam Mickiewicz - Pan Tadeusz
Non-fiction
- George Bancroft - History of the United States, volume 1
- Davy Crockett - A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, written by himself
- Henry Hallam, ed. - Remains in Verse and Prose of Arthur Henry Hallam
- Søren Kierkegaard writing as 'A' - "Another Defense Of Woman's Great Abilities" ("Ogsaa et Forsvar for Qvindens hoie Anlæg", article in Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post, December 17)
- Richard Monckton Milnes - Memorials of a Tour in some Parts of Greece, Chiefly Poetical
- Lancelot Edward Threlkeld - An Australian Grammar
Births
- February 9 – Felix Dahn, German writer (died 1912)
- March 6 – George du Maurier, English cartoonist and novelist (died 1896)
- March 24 – William Morris, English poet and designer (died 1896)
- April 5 – Frank R. Stockton, American short story writer (died 1902)
- July 9 – Jan Neruda, Czech writer (died 1891)
- September 15 – Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian (died 1896)
Deaths
- February 12 – Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian and philosopher (born 1768)
- July 25 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet and critic (born 1772)
- December 27 – Charles Lamb, English essayist (erysipelas, born 1775)
- September 16 – William Blackwood, Scottish publisher (born 1776)
- December 23 – Thomas Malthus, English political economist (born 1766)