1835 in literature

The year 1835 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * Alexis de Tocqueville publishes the first volume of Democracy in America.
 * Memoir of James Jackson, written by Susan Paul, is the earliest-known published narrative by an African-American woman and the first account documenting the life of free black child in the United States.
 * Hans Christian Andersen publishes the first of his 168 "Fairy Tales" for children.
 * Bertelsmann founded as a religious printer and publisher

New books

 * Hans Christian Andersen - The Improvisatore
 * Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Student
 * Théophile Gautier - Mademoiselle de Maupin
 * Nikolai Gogol - Taras Bulba
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * The Devil in Manuscript
 * Young Goodman Brown (short story)
 * Washington Irving - The Crayon Miscellany (three short stories)
 * John P. Kennedy - Horseshoe Robinson
 * Frederick Marryat - The Pacha of Many Tales
 * Hugh Miller - Scenes and Legends in the North of Scotland
 * Mary Russell Mitford - Belford Regis
 * Julia Pardoe - The Mardens and the Daventrys
 * G. W. M. Reynolds - The Youthful Imposter
 * Catharine Maria Sedgwick - The Linwoods
 * Mary Shelley - Lodore

New drama

 * Georg Büchner - Dantons Tod
 * Christian Dietrich Grabbe - Hannibal
 * Friedrich Kaiser - Hans Hasenkopf
 * Thomas Noon Talfourd - Ion
 * Alfred de Vigny - Chatterton

New short stories

 * Prosper Mérimée - "La Vénus d'Ille"
 * Washington Irving - "A Tour on the Prairies" (from The Crayon Miscellany)

Poetry

 * Karl August Nicander - Hesperider

Non-fiction

 * Susan Paul - Memoir of James Jackson
 * Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun - Souvenirs (autobiography)

Births

 * November 30 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens  (+  1910)
 * December 4 - Samuel Butler, writer  (+  1902)

Deaths

 * January 14 - Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist