1835 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1835.

Events

• February 17 – William Colenso prints the first book in New Zealand, a translation into the Māori language of the Epistle to the Philippians and Epistle to the Ephesians.^[1]
• c. Early March – John Stuart Mill's maid accidentally burns the unpublished first volume manuscript of Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution: A History.
• May 8 – The first of Hans Christian Andersen's 168 fantastic stories are published as Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection (Eventyr, fortalte for Børn) by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen including "The Tinderbox" (Fyrtøiet) and "The Princess and the Pea" (Prinsessen paa Ærten). On December 16 a second collection including "Thumbelina" (Tommelise) is published.
• July – Bertelsmann is founded by Carl Bertelsmann as a religious printer and publisher in Prussia.
• November/December – The German Federal Convention prohibits circulation of work by members of the "Young Germany" group of writers (Karl Gutzkow, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Laube, Theodor Mundt and Ludolf Wienbarg) and the exiled poet Heinrich Heine.
• Memoir of James Jackson, written by Susan Paul, is the earliest-known published narrative by an African-American woman and the first account documenting the life of a free black child in the United States.
• The annual Icelandic language journal Fjölnir is first published in Copenhagen by four Icelanders, Jónas Hallgrímsson, Konráð Gíslason, Brynjólfur Pétursson and Tómas Sæmundsson (the Fjölnismenn), promoting romanticism in Icelandic literature and the Icelandic independence movement.
• The remains of Jonathan Swift are uncovered during work on St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and inspected by William Wilde, an apprentice surgeon at this time.

New books

Fiction

• Honoré de Balzac -
  • Le Contrat de mariage
  • Séraphîta
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Student
• Théophile Gautier – Mademoiselle de Maupin
• Nikolai Gogol
  • Arabesques (short story collection), including "Diary of a Madman" and "The Portrait"
  • Mirgorod (short story collection), including "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich" and "Taras Bulba"
• Karl Gutzkow – Wally die Zweiflerin (Wally the Sceptic)
• Joseph C. Hart – Miriam Coffin, or The Whale-Fisherman
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Devil in Manuscript
  • "Young Goodman Brown" (short story)
• Washington Irving – The Crayon Miscellany (three short stories), including "A Tour on the Prairies"
• Hannah Maria Jones – The Gipsy Mother, or, The miseries of enforced marriage: a tale of mystery
• John P. Kennedy – Horseshoe Robinson
• Prosper Mérimée – "La Vénus d'Ille" (short story)
• Hugh Miller – Scenes and Legends in the North of Scotland
• Mary Russell Mitford – Belford Regis
• Caroline Norton – The Wife, and Woman's Reward
• Julia Pardoe – The Mardens and the Daventrys
• G. W. M. Reynolds – The Youthful Imposter
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick – The Linwoods
• Mary Shelley – Lodore
• Alfred de Vigny – Servitude et grandeur militaires

Children and young people

• Hans Christian Andersen
  • Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection (Eventyr, fortalte for Børn, first two sections)
  • The Improvisatore (Improvisatoren)
• Edward Augustus Kendall – Burford Cottage and Its Robin Red Breast
• Frederick Marryat – The Pacha of Many Tales
• Agnes Strickland – Tales of the School Room

Drama

• Georg Büchner – Danton's Death (Dantons Tod, published)
• Christian Dietrich Grabbe – Hannibal
• Victor Hugo – Angelo, Tyrant of Padua
• Friedrich Kaiser – Hans Hasenkopf
• William Thomas Moncrieff – The Jewess
• Thomas Noon Talfourd – Ion
• Alfred de Vigny – Chatterton

Poetry

• Robert Browning – Paracelsus
• Elias Lönnrot (comp.) – Kalevala
• Karl August Nicander – Hesperider
• See also 1835 in poetry

Non-fiction

• Maria Callcott – Little Arthur's History of England
• James Cowles Prichard – Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind
• Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America, vol. 1
• David Strauss – Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet (The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined; publication begins)
• Connop Thirlwall – History of Greece (publication begins)
• Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun – Souvenirs (autobiography)

Births

• January 29 – Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge), American children's writer (died 1905)
• April 10 – Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster, Scottish novelist and essayist (died 1913 in literature)
• June 5 – Amanda Kerfstedt, Swedish novelist and playwright (died 1920)
• June 26 – Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and travel writer (died 1896)
• October 4 – Mary Elizabeth Braddon, English novelist (died 1915)
• November 30 – Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), American novelist and humorist (died 1910)
• December 4 – Samuel Butler, English novelist (died 1902)

Unknown date, approximate year

• Emilia Marryat, English children's writer (died 1875)

Deaths

• January 1 – Mátyás Godina, Hungarian hymnist and educational writer in Prekmurje dialect of Slovenian (born c. 1768)
• March 30 – Richard Sharp ("Conversation Sharp"), English poet, critic and wit (born 1759)
• April 8 – Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher (born 1767)
• April 2 – István Ballér (Števan Baler), Slovene hymnist and Lutheran minister (born 1760)
• April 17 – William Henry Ireland, English poet and forger of Shakespeariana (born 1775)
• June 18 – William Cobbett, English journalist and social commentator (born 1763)
• August 23 – Isaac Pocock, English dramatist (born 1782)
• December 17 – Pierre Louis Roederer, French politician, economist, and historian (born 1754)
• December 25 – Antoine Ó Raifteiri, Irish poet writing in Gaelic (born 1779)

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