1838 in literature

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The year 1838 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

January 28 - The second night of Henrik Wergeland's satirical musical play Campbellerne ("The Campbells") in Christiania (Norway) provokes a riot.
March - The Monthly Chronicle, "a national journal of politics, literature, science, and art", begins publication by Longman in London.
October 19 - Poet Alfred de Musset is appointed librarian of the Ministry of the Interior in France.
November 3 - The Times of India is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce by Raobahadur Narayan Dinanath Velkar in Bombay.^[1]
November 8 - French novelist George Sand begins an uncomfortable winter living with her lover, the ailing Polish-born composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin, on the Mediterranean island of Majorca in the abandoned Carthusian monastery of Valldemossa.^[2]
Anna Maria Bunn's Gothic fiction The Guardian: a tale ("by an Australian") is published in Sydney. It is the first Australian novel printed and published in mainland Australia (although set in the author's native Ireland) and the first by a woman.^[3]
George Palmer Putnam and John Wiley form the book publishing and retail firm of Wiley & Putnam in New York City. It is the forerunner of G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Lady Charlotte Guest begins publication of her translation into English of the Welsh traditional tales known as the Mabinogion.

Hans Christian Andersen - Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. First Booklet (Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Ny Samling. Første Hefte) comprising "The Daisy", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" (Den standhaftige tinsoldat) and "The Wild Swans" (De vilde svaner)
Hendrik Conscience - De Leeuw van Vlaanderen ("The Lion of Flanders")
Charles Dickens
- Nicholas Nickleby (serialization begins)
- Oliver Twist (in book form)
William Nugent Glascock - Land Sharks and Sea Gulls
Edward Howard (as "edited by the author of Peter Simple") - Rattling the Reefer
Karl Leberecht Immermann - Münchhausen
John Pendleton Kennedy - Rob of the Bowl
Edgar Allan Poe
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
- "Ligeia" (short story)
George Sand
- L'Oreo
- L'Uscoque
Ann Sophia Stephens - Mary Derwent
Robert Smith Surtees - Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities

Dion Boucicault - A Legend of the Devil's Dyke
Edward Bulwer - The Lady of Lyons
Charles Dickens - The Lamplighter: a farce in one act (rejected for performance)^[4]
Franz Grillparzer - Weh dem, der lügt!
Victor Hugo - Ruy Blas
Martins Pena - O Juiz de Paz na Roça ("The Roça Justice of the Peace")

Giacomo Casanova - Memoirs (final volume)
Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Divinity School Address
Samuel Smiles - Physical Education
Baron Jules Dupotet de Sennevoy - Introduction to the Study of Animal Magnetism

February 6 – Henry Irving, English actor and theatre manager (died 1905)
June 26 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali writer (died 1894)
July 20 – Augustin Daly, American dramatist and theatre manager (died 1899)
October 25 – Annie Hall Cudlip, English novelist, journalist and editor (died 1918)
November 7 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French Symbolist writer (died 1889)

↑ "The Times of India", Britannica
↑ Described by her in Un hiver à Majorque ("A Winter in Majorca", 1842).
↑ Turcotte, Gerry (1998). "Australian Gothic" (PDF). University of Wollongong. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
↑ "The Lamplighter – by Charles Dickens (1838)". Retrieved 2014-12-17.