1829 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1829.

Events

• January 26 – First performance of Douglas Jerrold's comic nautical melodrama Black-Eyed Susan; or, All in the Downs at the Surrey Theatre in Lambeth, London; it will run for a new record of well over 150 performances.^[1]
• January 29 – First complete performance of Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy (1808), adapted by August Klingemann, in Braunschweig.^[2]
• October 29 – 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.
• Louis Braille invents embossed printing that allows the blind to read.

New books

Fiction

• Edward George 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
• Julia Pardoe – Lord Morcar of Hereward
• Thomas Love Peacock (anonymously) – The Misfortunes of Elphin
• Walter Scott (anonymously) – Anne of Geierstein

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
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge – On the Constitution of Church and State
• Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 1 (1st edition)
• Washington Irving – 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)
• April 26 – Eva Brag, Swedish poet, novelist and journalist (died 1913)
• March 4 – Samuel Rawson Gardiner, English historian (died 1902)
• March 16 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and essayist, first Nobel Prize in Literature winner (died 1907)
• May 1 – José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (died 1877)
• September 12 – Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist and novelist (died 1900)
• September 25 – William Michael Rossetti, English critic (died 1919)
• 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)^[3]
• 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

In literature

• Early summer – Openinig of George Eliot's novel Middlemarch (1871).

References

1. Gillan, Don (2007). "Longest Running Plays in London and New York". Retrieved 2011-02-15.
2. Armstrong, Richard Acland (1881). The Modern Review. J. Clarke & Co. pp. 152–. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
3. Hopkirk, Peter (2006). The Great Game. London: John Murray. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-7195-6447-5.