1829 In Literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1829.

Events

*January 26 – The first performance of Douglas Jerrold's comic nautical melodrama '' Black-Eyed Susan; or, All in the Downs'' is held at the Surrey Theatre in Lambeth, London. It will run for a new record of well over 150 performances.
*January 29 – The first complete performance of Goethe's '' Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy'' (1808), adapted by August Klingemann, in Braunschweig.
*September – The narrative of George Eliot's novel ''Middlemarch'' (1871–1872) opens.
*October 29 – The English actress Fanny Kemble makes her stage debut as Juliet in Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet'', at her father's Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.
*December — John Neal publishes the final issue of ''The Yankee'' literary journal.
*''unknown dates''
**Louis Braille invents a new alphabet and embossed printing that allows the blind to read.
**The Raczyński Library in Poznań is opened to the public.

New books

Fiction

*Edward Bulwer-Lytton – '' Devereux''
*Honoré de Balzac – ''Les Chouans''
* Steen Steensen Blicher – '' The Rector of Veilbye (Præsten i Vejlbye)''
* William Nugent Glascock – ''Sailors and Saints, or Matrimonial Manœuvres''
*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – '' Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or The Renunciants (Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, oder Die Entsagenden)''
* Catherine Gore – ''Romances of Real Life''
*Gerald Griffin – '' The Collegians''
*Victor Hugo – '' The Last Day of a Condemned Man (Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné)''
*Washington Irving – ''Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada''
*George Payne Rainsford James – ''Richelieu''
* Prosper Mérimée – '' A Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX''
* Julia Pardoe – ''Lord Morcar of Hereward''
*Thomas Love Peacock (anonymously) – ''The Misfortunes of Elphin''
*Walter Scott (anonymously) – ''Anne of Geierstein''
*Martin Archer Shee – '' Oldcourt''
* Horace Smith – ''The New Forest''

Children

*Frederick Marryat – ''The Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay''

Drama

*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – ''Faust'' (performed)
*Victor Hugo – '' Marion Delorme''
* Douglas William Jerrold – '' Black-Eyed Susan''
* John Augustus Stone – '' Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags''

Poetry

*Edgar Allan Poe – '' Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems''
*Alfred Tennyson – ''Timbuctoo''
*Henrik Wergeland
**''Digte, første Ring'' (Poems, first circle)
**'' Skabelsen, Mennesket og Messias'' (Creation, Man and the Messiah)

Non-fiction

*Hans Christian Andersen – ''A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager (Fodrejse fra Holmens Canal til Østpynten af Amager i Aarene 1828 og 1829)''
*Thomas Carlyle – ''Signs of the Times''
*William Cobbett
**''The English Gardener''
**''Advice to Young Men''
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge – ''On the Constitution of Church and State''
*''Encyclopedia Americana'', vol. 1 (1st edition)
*Washington Irving – '' A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada''
*Cornelio Saavedra – '' Memoria autógrafa''
* Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon – ''Life of Belisarius''
* David Walker – ''Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America''

Births

*January 1 – Tommaso Salvini, Italian memoirist and actor (died 1915)
*January 12 – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, née Mullins, Canadian novelist and poet (died 1879)
*February 24 – Friedrich Spielhagen, German novelist (died 1911)
*March 4 – Samuel Rawson Gardiner, English historian (died 1902)
*April 24 – Luisa Cappiani, Austrian soprano, educator and essayist (died 1919)
*April 26 – Eva Brag, Swedish poet, novelist and journalist (died 1913)
*May 1 – José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (died 1877)
* June 4 – Jane Lippitt Patterson, American writer and editor (died 1919)
*July 19 – Helen Vickroy Austin, American essayist, journalist, and horticulturist (died 1921)
*October 31 – Emma Tatham, English poet (died 1855)
*September 12 – Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist and novelist (died 1900)
*September 18 – Edna Dean Proctor, American poet and author (died 1923)
*September 25 – William Michael Rossetti, English critic (died 1919)
*November 21 – Martha Perry Lowe, American writer and activist (died 1902)
*December 8 – Henry Timrod, American poet (died 1867)

Deaths

*January 6 – Josef Dobrovský, Czech historian (born 1753)
*January 11 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet and critic (born 1772)
*January 15 – John Mastin, English memoirist, local historian and cleric (born 1747)
*January 29 – István Pauli (Pável) Hungarian Slovene priest and writer (born 1760)
*February 11 – Aleksander Griboyedov, Russian dramatist (killed by mob, born 1795)
*July 7 – Jacob Friedrich von Abel, German philosopher (born 1751)
*July 23 – Wojciech Bogusławski, Polish playwright and director (born 1757)
*September 29 – Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont, political writer (born 1759)
*October 10 – Maria Elizabetha Jacson, English writer on botany and gardening (born 1755)

Awards

*Newdigate prize – Robert Stephen Hawker

References

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