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Overview of the events of 1831 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1831.
Events
New books
Fiction
Children
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 2 –
Justin Winsor , American historian and librarian (died
1897 )
January 3 –
George Manville Fenn , English novelist and educationalist (died
1909 )
January 14 –
John Cordy Jeaffreson , English novelist and non-fiction writer (died
1901 )
February 25 –
Jane G. Austin , American writer (died
1894 )
January 26 –
Mary Mapes Dodge , American children's writer (died
1907 )
February 16 –
Nikolai Leskov , Russian novelist and playwright (died
1895 )
March 29 –
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr , English novelist and teacher (died
1919 )
April 9 –
Clara Harrison Stranahan , American author and college founder (died
1905 )
April 19 –
Mary Louise Booth , American writer, editor, and translator (died
1889 )
May 6 –
Mary C. Ames , American writer (died
1884 )
June 7 –
Amelia Edwards , English fiction writer and Egyptologist (died
1892 )
June 25 –
Harriet Mann Miller , American author, naturalist, and ornithologist (died
1918 )
July 3 –
Edmund Yates , Scottish writer (died
1894 )
July 5 –
Cordelia A. Greene , American physician, reformer, benefactor (died
1905 )
July 7 –
Jane Elizabeth Conklin , American religious writer and poet (died
1914 )
August 1 –
William Aldis Wright , English writer and literary editor (died
1914 )
September 5 –
Victorien Sardou , French dramatist (died
1908 )
September 12 –
Álvares de Azevedo , Brazilian
Ultra-Romantic writer (died
1852 )
October 7 –
Eleanor Kirk , American writer (died
1908 )
October 15 –
Helen Hunt Jackson , American poet, writer and activist (died
1885 )
October 19 –
Fanny Murdaugh Downing , American author and poet (died
1894 )
unknown date –
Nora Perry , American writer (died
1896 )
[6]
Deaths
January 2 –
Barthold Georg Niebuhr , Danish-born German historian (born
1776 )
January 14 –
Henry Mackenzie , Scottish novelist (born
1745 )
January 21 –
Ludwig Achim von Arnim , German poet and novelist (heart attack, born
1781 )
February 25 –
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger , German dramatist and novelist, originator of
Sturm und Drang (born
1752 )
[7]
April 4 –
Isaiah Thomas , American publisher (born
1749 )
June 30 –
William Roscoe , English poet (born
1753 )
September 12 –
Jippensha Ikku (十返舎 一九), Japanese novelist and humorist (born
1765 )
October 2 –
José Agostinho de Macedo , Portuguese poet (born
1761 )
December 18 –
Willem Bilderdijk , Dutch author (born
1756 )
December 26 –
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio , Indian poet and teacher (born
1809 )
Awards
References
^
WorldCat entry
^
The development of Australian literature in the 19th century (PDF) ,
University of the Third Age , p. 4, archived from
the original (PDF) on 2013-05-16, retrieved 2013-08-22
^ Hugh Chisholm; James Louis Garvin (1926). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information. 13th Ed . Encyclopædia britannica Company, Limited.
^ Candy Gunther Brown (2004).
The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880 . Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 70.
ISBN
978-0-8078-5511-9 .
^
a
b
Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^ Robert McHenry (1980).
Liberty's Women . G. & C. Merriam Company. p. 325.
ISBN
978-0-87779-064-8 .
^ Ayres, H.M. (1917). "Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (1752–1831)".
The Reader's Dictionary of Authors . New York: Warner Library Co. Retrieved 24 March 2019 .