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Overview of the events of 1834 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1834 .
April –
W. Harrison Ainsworth 's first novel, the historical romance
Rookwood , is published anonymously in London by
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] Bentley also publishes
Edward Bulwer-Lytton 's anonymous popular novel
The Last Days of Pompeii in the same year.
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 , originally published in the
Monthly Magazine (London).
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) is published anonymously. Set around the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden in 1792, it is the first original historical novel written in Sweden,
[2] and features a bisexual character, Tintomara.
[3]
Children and young people
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]
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 )
^ 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 . Swedish Institute. p. 89.
ISBN
978-91-520-0239-1 .
^ Merriam-Webster, Inc; Encyclopaedia Britannica Publishers, Inc. Staff (1995).
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature . Merriam-Webster. p. 38.
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 . Stanford University Press. p. 227.
ISBN
978-0-8047-1842-4 .
^
"Thelwall, John" .
Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^
Ellis, Thomas Iorwerth (1959).
"Jones, John (1775–1834), cleric" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 October 2020 .