1837 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1837.
Events
- February 19 - German writer Georg Büchner (born 1813) dies of typhus in Zurich leaving his play Woyzeck unfinished.
- June 16 - Charles Dickens is first introduced to the actor William Macready by John Forster backstage at a rehearsal of Othello.[1]
- July - English "peasant poet" John Clare first enters an asylum for the insane, at High Beach in Essex.
- September - In Burton's Gentleman's Magazine (Philadelphia), William Evans Burton publishes an early example of the detective story, "The Secret Cell", featuring a London police officer and his wife.[2]
- October - First publication of the The United States Magazine and Democratic Review.[3]
- October 4 - Andreas Munch's first play, Kong Sverres Ungdom, opens the Christiania Theatre´s new building in Norway.[4]
- The Little, Brown and Company publishing house opens its doors in Boston, Massachusetts.[5]
New books
- W. Harrison Ainsworth - Crichton
- Hans Christian Andersen
- "The Little Mermaid" (Den lille havfrue) and "The Emperor's New Clothes" (Kejserens nye Klæder) in Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection (Eventyr, fortalte for Børn), Third Booklet, April 7
- Only a Fiddler
- Honoré de Balzac
- Cesar Birotteau
- Lost Illusions, Part I: The Two Poets
- Robert Montgomery Bird - Nick of the Woods
- Sara Coleridge - Phantasmion
- Hendrik Conscience - In 't Wonderjaar 1566
- Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist (serialization begins in Bentley's Miscellany, February)[6]
- The Pickwick Papers (serial publication concludes November; first book publication)
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Henrietta Temple
- Venetia
- Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé - L'influence d'un livre
- Lady Mary Fox - An Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland[7]
- Jeremias Gotthelf - Bauernspiegel
- Julia Kavanagh - Adele
- Frederick Marryat - Snarleyyow
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Live and Let Live
- Mary Shelley - Falkner
- Robert Southey - "The Story of the Three Bears" (in The Doctor)
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L." - Ethel Churchill, or The Two Brides
New short stories
- Richard Harris Barham (as 'Thomas Ingoldsby') - The Ingoldsby Legends (serialization begins in Bentley's Miscellany)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice-Told Tales
- Victor Séjour - Le Mulâtre (the earliest known work of African American fiction, published in Revue des Colonies, March)
New drama
- Joanna Baillie - The Separation
- Manuel Bretón de los Herreros - Muérete y verás
- Robert Browning - Strafford: an historical tragedy
- Alfred de Musset - Un caprice
- Jules-Édouard Alboize de Pujol - L'Idiote
- Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch - Los Amantes de Teruel
- Henrik Hertz - Svend Dyrings Huus
- Barnabas Rayner - The Dumb Man of Manchester
Poetry
- José de Espronceda - El estudiante de Salamanca
- Alphonse de Lamartine - Chute d'un ange
- See also 1837 in poetry
Non-fiction
- Charles Ball - Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, A Black Man
- Bernard Bolzano - Wissenschaftslehre ("Theory of Science")
- Thomas Carlyle - The French Revolution: A History
- Washington Irving - The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
- Harriet Martineau - Society in America
- William H. Prescott - The History of Ferdinand and Isabella
- Martin Tupper - Proverbial Philosophy
- Andrew Ure - A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
- Adelbert von Chamisso - Über die Hawaiische Sprache ("On the Hawaiian Language")
Births
- January 23 – Agnes Maule Machar, Canadian novelist (died 1927)
- March 1
- Ion Creangă, Romanian writer (died 1889)
- William Dean Howells, American writer (died 1920)
- March 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet (died 1907)
- April 1 – Jorge Isaacs (Jorge Isaacs Ferrer), Colombian writer, politician and explorer (died 1895)
- April 5 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (died 1909)
- October 15 – Leo Königsberger, German historian of science (died 1921)
- December 10 – Edward Eggleston, American novelist and historian (died 1902)
Deaths
- January 29 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (killed in duel, born 1799)
- February 12 – Ludwig Börne, German Jewish political writer and satirist (born 1786)
- March 9 – Alexandru Hrisoverghi, Romanian writer and translator (born 1811)
- March 15 – Lukijan Mušicki, Serbian poet (born 1777)
- June 12 – Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann, German bookseller (born 1765)
- June 14 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (cholera, born 1798)
- September 21 – Georg Ludolf Dissen, German philologist (born 1784)
- October 19 – Hendrik Doeff, Dutch travel writer (born 1764)
Awards
In literature
- Jules Verne's novel Family Without a Name (Famille-sans-nom, 1889) is set during the Lower Canada Rebellion opening this year.
References
- ↑ "The Lamplighter – by Charles Dickens (1838)". Retrieved 2014-12-17.
- ↑ Sims, Michael, ed. (2011). The Dead Witness: a Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 1–38. ISBN 9781408818633.
- ↑ "Making of America". Cornell University Library. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
- ↑ Aarnes, Sigurd Aa. "Andreas Munch". In Helle, Knut. Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2013-08-08.
- ↑ "A Brief History of Little, Brown and Company". New York: Little, Brown and Company. 2012. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
- ↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
- ↑ Pierce, Peter (2009). The Cambridge History of Australian Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052188165X.
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