1824 in literature

The year 1824 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * Julia Beckwith Hart becomes the first Canadian female writer to be published.
 * The periodicals The Children's Friend and The Child's Companion both publish their first issues.

New books

 * William Cardell - The Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy
 * Mary Charlton - The Homicide
 * Lydia Maria Child - Hobomok
 * James Fenimore Cooper - The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea
 * Susan Ferrier - The Inheritance
 * Catherine Gore - Theresa Marchment, or The Maid of Honour
 * Julia Beckwith Hart - St. Ursula's Convent
 * James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
 * Washington Irving - ''Tales of a Traveller
 * Charles Maturin - The Albigenses
 * Mary Russell Mitford - Our Village
 * James Morier - Hajji Baba of Ispahan
 * Regina Marie Roche - The Tradition of the Castle
 * Susanna Haswell Rowson - Charlotte's Daughter
 * Sir Walter Scott
 * St. Ronan's Well
 * Redgauntlet
 * Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Redwood
 * Louisa Stanhope - The Siege of Kenilworth

New drama

 * Aleksandr Griboyedov - Woe from Wit

Poetry

 * Giacomo Leopardi - Canzoni and Versi
 * Alfred de Vigny - Éloa, ou La sœur des anges

Non-fiction

 * August Böckh - Corpus Inscriptionum Graecum

Births

 * January 7 - Julia Kavanagh (+ 1877)
 * January 8 - Wilkie Collins   (+  1889)
 * May 19 - William Allingham (+ 1889)
 * July 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils (+ 1895)
 * December 10 - George MacDonald (+ 1905)

Deaths

 * March 2 - Susanna Haswell Rowson, author
 * April 19 - Lord Byron, poet
 * October 30 - Charles Maturin

Awards

 * March - Samuel Taylor Coleridge elected FRSL