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The year 1831 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

• January 15 - Victor Hugo completed his novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
• The play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "chauvinism."
• William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the Liberator, an abolitionist periodical.
• The Sydney Morning Herald is first published.
• Alexander Pushkin marries Natalya Goncharova.

[edit] New books

• Honoré de Balzac
  • La Peau de chagrin
  • Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu
• Selina Davenport - The Queen's Page
• Benjamin Disraeli - The Young Duke
• Nikolai Gogol - Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
• Catherine Gore - The Tuileries
• Ann Hatton - Gerald Fitzgerald
• Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French: Notre Dame de Paris)
• Washington Irving - Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus
• George Sand - Indiana
• Rosalia St. Clair - The Last of the Lyals

[edit] New drama

• Robert Montgomery Bird - Gladiator

[edit] Poetry

• Giacomo Leopardi - Canti
• Edgar Allan Poe - Poems

[edit] Non-fiction

• John Stuart Mill - The Spirit of the Age
• Washington Irving - Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus

[edit] Births

• January 2 - Justin Winsor, historian and librarian (+ 1897)
• January 26 - Mary Mapes Dodge, writer (+ 1907)
• February 16 - Nikolai Leskov, novelist (+ 1895)
• August 1 - William Aldis Wright, literary editor (+ 1914)
• September 5 - Victorien Sardou, dramatist (+ 1908)
• October 15 - Helen Hunt Jackson, writer-activist (+ 1885)

[edit] Deaths

• January 2 - Barthold Georg Niebuhr, historian
• January 21 - Ludwig Achim von Arnim
• February 25 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, dramatist and novelist, originator of Sturm und Drang
• April 4 - Isaiah Thomas, publisher
• June 30 - William Roscoe, English poet
• December 18 - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author

[edit] Awards