1834 in literature

See also: 1833 in literature, other events of 1834, 1835 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

New Books

• The Captives in India[?] - Barbara Hofland[?]
• Father Goriot[?] - Honore de Balzac
• The Hamiltons[?] - Catherine Gore[?]
• Jacob Faithful[?] - Frederick Marryat
• The Last Days of Pompeii[?] - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• Lucien Leuwen[?] - Stendhal
• A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett[?] - David Crockett
• The Pauper Boy[?] - Rosalia St. Clair[?]
• Personation[?] - Selina Davenport[?]
• Peter Simple[?] - Frederick Marryat
• Poetical Works[?] (last edition proofread by the author) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Rookwood[?] - William Harrison Ainsworth
• Sartor Resartus[?] - Thomas Carlyle

Births

• February 9 - Felix Dahn[?], author (+ 1912)
• William Morris, English poet (+ 1896)

Deaths

• July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, writer
• December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist
• September 16 - William Blackwood, Scottish publisher
• December - Thomas Malthus

Awards