Overview of the events of 1832 in literature
Overview of the events of 1832 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1832 .
February 4 – Chambers's Edinburgh Journal is established by William Chambers .
March 31 – Tait's Edinburgh Magazine is established by William Tait .
May 21 – Washington Irving returns to the United States after living in Europe for seventeen years.
September 21 – Scottish historical novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott dies aged 61 at his home, Abbotsford House , leaving his novel The Siege of Malta unfinished; he is buried in the grounds of Dryburgh Abbey with Presbyterian and Episcopalian ministers in attendance. The last of his Waverley novels , Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous , are published this year as the 4th series of Tales of My Landlord 'collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham '.
December (or January 1833 ) – Richard Bentley (publisher) , having purchased the remaining copyrights to all of Jane Austen 's novels from her sister Cassandra , begins to return them to print (for the first time since 1820 ) in five illustrated volumes as part of his Standard Novels series.
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William Ticknor co-founds the publishing house that will become Ticknor and Fields , a predecessor of Houghton Mifflin , in Boston, Massachusetts .
James Atkinson makes the first translation from Persian into English of Ferdowsi 's Shahnameh , The Sha Nameh of the Persian Poet Firdausi, translated and abridged in prose and verse with notes and illustrations ; printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland ; sold by John Murray .
The first Baedeker guidebook, Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne , by Karl Baedeker in Koblenz (his adaptation of J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln of 1828) is published without a date.
Ramón de Mesonero Romanos (as 'El Curioso Parlante') begins writing his series of Escenas matritenses (Madrid scenes), originally in Cartas españolas .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 's Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy is published.
Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques opened on the site of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris under Frédérick Lemaître .[1]
The early 13th century Færeyinga saga , written in Iceland , is first published.[2]
Publishers begin the use of a paper jacket to wrap book covers.[3]
Polish scholar Konstanty Swidzinski discovers a 15th-century Bible page called the Karta medycka in the Polish village of Medyka
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January 13 – Horatio Alger, Jr. , American writer (died 1899 )
January 27 – Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), English children's writer and scholar (died 1898 )
March 10 – Mary Bigelow Ingham , American author and educator (died 1923 )
April 14 – Wilhelm Busch , German humorist and poet (died 1908 )
May 17 – Grace Webster Haddock Hinsdale , American author (died 1902 )
June 10 – Edwin Arnold , English poet (died 1905 )
June 11 – Jules Vallès , French writer (died 1885 )
June 23 – Gustav Jaeger , German naturalist (died 1917 )
June 30 – Emily Lucas Blackall , American author and philanthropist (died 1892 )
July 27 – Hesba Stretton , English children's author (died 1911 )
August 3 – Edward Wilmot Blyden , Liberian pan-Africanist (died 1912 )
September 30 – Charlotte Riddell , née Cowan, Anglo-Irish novelist and editor (died 1906 )
October 9 – Elizabeth Akers Allen , American poet and journalist (died 1911 )
October 12 – Theodore Watts-Dunton , English critic and poet (died 1914 )
November 28 – Leslie Stephen , English writer (died 1904 )
November 29 – Louisa May Alcott , American novelist (died 1888 )[5]
December 8 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , Norwegian novelist and Nobel laureate (died 1910 )
February 3 – George Crabbe , English poet (born 1754 )
March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German novelist, dramatist and poet (born 1749 )
April 26 – Maria Elizabeth Budden , English novelist and writer of didactic children's books (born c. 1780)[6]
June 6 – Jeremy Bentham , English philosopher and social reformer (born 1748 )
June 21 – Anna Maria Porter , English poet and novelist (sister of Jane Porter ), of typhus (born 1780 )
July 17 – John Carr , English travel writer and lawyer (born 1772 )
September 12 – Priscilla Wakefield , English Quaker writer and philanthropist (born 1751 )
September 21 – Sir Walter Scott , Scottish historical novelist and poet (born 1771 )
November 14 – Rasmus Christian Rask , Danish philologist (born 1787 )
December 18 – Philip Freneau , American poet and polemicist (born 1752 )
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