1834 in literature
Overview of the events of 1834 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1834 .
Events
April – W. Harrison Ainsworth 's first novel, the historical romance Rookwood 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] Edward Bulwer-Lytton 's anonymous popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii
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 Monthly Magazine
November 24 – George Sand begins her journal addressed to Alfred de Musset .unknown date – Carl Jonas Love Almqvist 's fourth novel in the "Törnrosens bok" series, The Queen's Tiara (Drottningens juvelsmycke)[ 2] [ 3]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
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 – Thomas Purnell , Welsh-born English drama critic and essayist (died 1889 )[ 5]
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 )March 27 – Melissa Elizabeth Banta , American poet, travel writer (died 1907 )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 )unknown date – Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald , Irish-born literary biographer, drama critic and sculptor (died 1925 )[ 6]
Deaths
February 12 – Friedrich Schleiermacher , German theologian and philosopher (born 1768 )February 17 – John Thelwall , British orator, writer, political reformer, journalist, poet, elocutionist and speech therapist (born 1764 )[ 7] May 13 – John Jones , Welsh Anglican priest and writer (born 1775 )[ 8] July 25 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge , English Romantic poet and critic (born 1772 )September 16 – William Blackwood , Scottish publisher (born 1776 )December 5 – Thomas Pringle , Scottish writer, poet and abolitionist (born 1789 )December 23 – Thomas Malthus , English political economist (born 1766 )December 27 – Charles Lamb , English essayist (erysipelas; born 1775 )
References
^ Carver, Stephen (2003). The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist William Harrison Ainsworth, 1805–1882 . Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press . ISBN 0773466339 ^ Ingemar Algulin (1989). A History of Swedish Literature ISBN 978-91-520-0239-1 ^ Merriam-Webster, Inc; Encyclopaedia Britannica Publishers, Inc. Staff (1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6 ^ Article in Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post , December 17, 1834.
^ "Purnell, Thomas [pseud. Q] (1834–1889), theatre critic and writer | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" . www.oxforddnb.com . doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/22903 . Retrieved 2020-03-19 .^ John Sutherland (1990). The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction ISBN 978-0-8047-1842-4 ^ "Thelwall, John" Dictionary of National Biography ^ Ellis, Thomas Iorwerth (1959). "Jones, John (1775–1834), cleric" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 October 2020 .
