1834 in literature

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

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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, it succeeds enough for the author to take up full-time writing.[1] Bentley also publishes Edward Bulwer-Lytton's anonymous popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii in the same year.
• June 10 – The Scottish philosopher and writer Thomas Carlyle moves to Cheyne Row (Carlyle's House) in London.
• August – Charles Dickens first uses the pen name Boz, in the second installment of "The Boarding-House", one of the Sketches by Boz, originally published in the Monthly Magazine (London).
• November 24 – George Sand begins her journal addressed to Alfred de Musset.

Uncertain date

• 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 a bisexual character, Tintomara.

New books

Fiction

• W. Harrison Ainsworth – Rookwood
• Carl Jonas Love Almqvist – The Queen's Tiara
• Honoré de Balzac
  • The Quest of the Absolute
  • La Fille aux yeux d'or (The Girl with Eyes of Gold)
  • Le Père Goriot
• Edward Bulwer – The Last Days of Pompeii
• Selina Davenport – Personation
• Benjamin Disraeli – The Infernal Marriage
• Catherine Gore – The Hamiltons
• Tommaso Grossi – Marco Visconti
• Barbara Hofland – The Captives in India
• Harriet Martineau – Illustrations of Political Economy (nine volumes, in fictional form)
• Frederick Maurice – Eustace Conway
• Aleksandr Pushkin – The Queen of Spades (Russian: Пиковая дама – Pikovaya dama)
• Agnes C. Hall (as Rosalia St. Clair) – The Pauper Boy

Children and young people

• Frederick Marryat
  • Jacob Faithful
  • Peter Simple

Drama

• John Baldwin Buckstone – Isabelle; or, A Woman's Life
• Alfred de Musset – Lorenzaccio
• Aleksander Fredro – Zemsta (Revenge)
• Franz Grillparzer – Der Traum, ein Leben (The Dream, a Life)
• Juliusz Słowacki
  • Balladyna
  • Kordian
• Henry Taylor – Philip van Artevelde

Poetry

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poetical Works (last edition read in proof by 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
• Heinrich Heine – Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland (The History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany)
• Søren Kierkegaard writing as 'A' – "Another Defense Of Woman's Great Abilities" ("Ogsaa et Forsvar for Qvindens hoie Anlæg"[2]
• Richard Monckton Milnes – Memorials of a Tour in some Parts of Greece, Chiefly Poetical
• Lancelot Edward Threlkeld – An Australian Grammar

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 9 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (died 1903)
• September 15 – Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian (died 1896)
• October 1 – Mary Mackellar, née Cameron, Scottish Gaelic poet and translator (died 1890)
• November 10 – José Hernández, Argentine poet (died 1886)
• November 23 – James Thomson ("Bysshe Vanolis"), Scottish poet (died 1882)

Uncertain dates

• Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, Irish-born literary biographer, drama critic and sculptor (died 1925)
• Thomas Purnell, Welsh-born English drama critic and essayist (died 1889)

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)

References

1. Carver, Stephen (2003). The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist William Harrison Ainsworth, 1805–1882. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 0773466339.
2. Article in Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post, December 17, 1834.