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See also: 1830 in literature, other events of 1831, 1832 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

The play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "chauvinism."
William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the Liberator, an abolitionist periodical.
The Sydney Morning Herald is first published.

New books

Gerald Fitzgerald - Anne Hatton
Notre Dame de Paris
- Victor Hugo
The Last of the Lyals - Rosalia St. Clair
The Queen's Page - Selina Davenport
The Spirit of the Age - John Stuart Mill
The Tuileries - Catherine Gore
The Young Duke - Benjamin Disraeli

New drama

Robert Montgomery Bird - Gladiator

Poetry

Giacomo Leopardi - Canti
Edgar Allan Poe - Poems

Births

January 2 - Justin Winsor, historian and librarian (+ 1897)
January 26 - Mary Mapes Dodge, writer (+ 1907)
February 16 - Nikolai Leskov, novelist (+ 1895)
August 1 - William Aldis Wright, literary editor (+ 1914)
September 5 - Victorien Sardou, dramatist (+ 1908)
October 15 - Helen Hunt Jackson, writer-activist (+ 1885)

Deaths

January 2 - Barthold Georg Niebuhr, historian
January 21 - Ludwig Achim von Arnim
February 25 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, dramatist and novelist, originator of Sturm und Drang
April 4 - Isaiah Thomas, publisher
June 30 - William Roscoe, English poet
December 18 - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author

Awards

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