Books - 1837 in literature

Events

• The Little, Brown and Company publishing house opens its doors.
• First publication of the The United States Magazine and Democratic Review.

New books

• Adele - Julia Kavanagh
• Cesar Birotteau - Honoré de Balzac
• Crichton - William Harrison Ainsworth
• Falkner - Mary Shelley
• Henrietta Temple - Benjamin Disraeli
• Live and Let Live - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
• Nick of the Woods - Robert Montgomery Bird
• Only a Fiddler - Hans Christian Andersen
• Snarleyyow - Frederick Marryat
• Venetia - Benjamin Disraeli

New short stories

• Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice-Told Tales
• Victor Séjour - Le Mulâtre, the earliest known work of African-American fiction

Poetry

• Alphonse de Lamartine - Chute d'un ange

Non-fiction

• Bernard Bolzano - The Philosophy of Logic
• Thomas Carlyle - The French Revolution, A History
• Harriet Martineau - Society in America
• William H. Prescott - The History of Ferdinand and Isabella

Births

• March 1 - William Dean Howells, writer (+ 1920)
• March 6 - Sully Prudhomme, poet (+ 1907)
• April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (+ 1909)
• December 10 - Edward Eggleston, novelist and historian

Deaths

• January 29 - Aleksandr Pushkin, poet (killed in a duel)
• February 12 - Ludwig Börne, political writer and satirist
• June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi, poet

Awards

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