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Overview of the events of 1835 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1835 .
Events
January 21 – Abolitionist
Susan Paul officiates at a meeting of the
New England Anti-Slavery Society (NEASS) in Boston.
[1] Later in the year, her Memoir of James Jackson becomes the earliest-known published narrative by an
African-American woman and the first account documenting the life of a free black child in the United States.
February 17 –
William Colenso prints the first book in New Zealand, a translation into the
Māori language of the
Epistle to the Philippians and
Epistle to the Ephesians .
[2]
February 28 – The
Finnish language epic poetry
Kalevala , compiled by
Elias Lönnrot from oral sources, is first published in the
Grand Duchy of Finland , becoming influential in the
Fennoman movement .
[3]
c. early March –
John Stuart Mill 's maid accidentally burns the unpublished first volume manuscript of
Thomas Carlyle 's
The French Revolution: A History .
May 8 – The first of
Hans Christian Andersen 's 168 fantastic stories are published as
Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection (Eventyr, fortalte for Børn ) by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, including "
The Tinderbox " ("Fyrtøiet") and "
The Princess and the Pea " ("Prinsessen paa Ærten"). On
December 16 a second collection including "
Thumbelina " ("Tommelise") is published.
July –
Bertelsmann is founded by
Carl Bertelsmann as a religious printer and publisher in Prussia.
November/December – The
German Federal Convention prohibits circulation of work by members of the "
Young Germany " group of writers (
Karl Gutzkow ,
Heinrich Heine ,
Heinrich Laube ,
Theodor Mundt and
Ludolf Wienbarg ) and the exiled poet
Heinrich Heine .
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 20 –
Lucy Hamilton Hooper , American writer (died
1893 )
January 29 –
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge), American children's writer (died
1905 )
February 14 –
Mary Spear Nicholas Tiernan , American writer (died
1891 )
February 22 –
Lillian Spender (née Headland), English novelist (died
1895 )
March 25 –
Minnie S. Davis , American author and mental scientist (died
1927 )
March 28 –
Mary H. Gray Clarke , American writer (died
1892 )
April 3 –
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford , American writer (died
1921 )
April 10 –
Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster , Scottish novelist and essayist (died
1913 in literature )
April 10 –
Louise Chandler Moulton , American writer and critic (died
1908 )
April 25 –
Emma Scarr Booth , English-born American author (died
1927 )
May 3 –
Maria I. Johnston , American author, journalist, editor and lecturer (died
1921 )
May 8 –
Augusta Jane Evans , American author (died
1909 )
June 5 –
Amanda Kerfstedt , Swedish novelist and playwright (died
1920 )
June 10 –
Florence Anderson Clark , American author, newspaper editor, librarian, and university administrator (died
1918 )
June 26 –
Thomas W. Knox , American journalist and travel writer (died
1896 )
June 29 –
Celia Laighton Thaxter , American writer (died
1894 )
July 1 (probable year) –
Mary Catherine Chase (Sister Mary Francis de Sales), American nun and writer (died c. 1905)
July 18 —
Annie Russell Wall , American historian, writer, teacher (died
1920 )
October –
Emilia Marryat , English children's writer (died
1875 )
[5]
October 4 –
Mary Elizabeth Braddon , English novelist (died
1915 )
November –
Shoqan Walikhanov , Russian Kazakh historian and folklorist (died
1865 )
November 30 –
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), American novelist and humorist (died
1910 )
December 4 –
Samuel Butler , English novelist (died
1902 )
unknown date —
Henrietta Gould Rowe , American litterateur and author (died
1910 )
Deaths
January 1 –
Mátyás Godina , Hungarian hymnist and educational writer in
Prekmurje dialect of Slovenian (born
c. 1768)
March 30 –
Richard Sharp ("Conversation Sharp"), English poet, critic and wit (born
1759 )
April 8
April 2 –
István Ballér (Števan Baler), Slovene hymnist and Lutheran minister (born
1760 )
April 17 –
William Henry Ireland , English poet and forger of Shakespeariana (born
1775 )
June 18 –
William Cobbett , English journalist and social commentator (born
1763 )
August 23 –
Isaac Pocock , English dramatist (born
1782 )
December 17 –
Pierre Louis Roederer , French politician, economist, and historian (born
1754 )
December 25 –
Antoine Ó Raifteiri , Irish poet writing in Gaelic (born
1779 )
References