1834 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1834.

Events

• April – W. Harrison Ainsworth's first novel, the historical romance Rookwood, is published (anonymously) in London by Richard Bentley with illustrations by George Cruikshank. Romanticising the highwayman Dick Turpin, its success enables the author to give up the legal profession for writing.^[1] Bentley also publishes Edward Bulwer-Lytton's (anonymous) popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii this year.
• June 10 – British philosopher and writer Thomas Carlyle moves to Cheyne Row (Carlyle's House) in London.
• August – Charles Dickens first uses the pen name "Boz".
• November 24 – George Sand begins her journal to Alfred de Musset.
• Carl Jonas Love Almqvist's fourth novel in the "Törnrosens bok" series, The Queen's Tiara (Drottningens juvelsmycke), is published anonymously. Set around the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden in 1792, it is the first original historical novel written in Sweden, and features the bisexual character Tintomara.

New books

Births

• January 1 – Ludovic Halévy, French playwright and author (died 1908)
• January 22 – Jennie Fowler Willing, American author, educator, and reformer (died 1916)
• January 28 – Julia Carter Aldrich, American author and editor (died 1924)
• February 9 – Felix Dahn, German writer (died 1912)
• March 6 – George du Maurier, English cartoonist and novelist (died 1896)
• March 24 – Mary Lynde Craig, American writer and attorney (died 1921)
• March 24 – William Morris, English poet and designer (died 1896)
• April 5 – Frank R. Stockton, American short story writer (died 1902)
• April 7 – Emma Southwick Brinton, American army nurse and foreign correspondent (died 1922)
• April 21 – Henry Spencer Ashbee, English bibliophile (died 1900)
• April 26 – Charles Farrar Browne ("Artemus Ward"), American humorist (died 1867)
• May 28 – Lavilla Esther Allen, American author, poet, and reader (died 1903)
• July 9 – Jan Neruda, Czech writer (died 1891)
• August 31 – Esther Pugh, American reformer, editor, and publisher (died 1908)
• September 15 – Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian (died 1896)
• October 1 – Mary Mackellar, née Cameron, Scottish Gaelic poet and translator (died 1890)
• November 23 – James Thomson ("Bysshe Vanolis"), Scottish poet (died 1882)
• date unknown – Henrietta Gould Rowe, American litterateur and author (died 1910)

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)

Awards

References