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1837 in literature

See also: 1836 in literature, other events of 1837, 1838 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The Little, Brown publishing house opens its doors.

New Books

• The Admirable Crichton - William Harrison Ainsworth
• Cesar Birotteau - Honoré de Balzac
• Falkner - Mary Shelley
• The French Revolution, A History - Thomas Carlyle
• Henrietta Temple - Benjamin Disraeli
• Live and Let Live - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
• Nick of the Woods - Robert Montgomery Bird
• Only a Fiddler - Hans Christian Andersen
• Snarleyyow - Frederick Marryat
• Society in America - Harriet Martineau
• Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Venetia - Benjamin Disraeli

Births

• March 1 - William Dean Howells, writer (+ 1920)
• March 6 - Sully Prudhomme, poet (+ 1907)
• April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (+ 1909)

Deaths

• January 29 - Alexander Pushkin, author

Awards