1825 in literature

The year 1825 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * Henri Boulard (b. 1754) dies, leaving behind one of the greatest book collections in history, with a library containing more than half a million books.

Fiction

 * John Banim & Michael Banim - Tales of the O'Hara Family
 * Lydia Maria Child - The Rebels
 * Sarah Green - Parents and Wives
 * Wilhelm Hauff - Der Mann im Mond
 * Barbara Hofland - Moderation
 * Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - A Father's Love and a Woman's Friendship
 * Sir Walter Scott
 * The Betrothed
 * The Talisman
 * R. P. Ward - Man of Refinement

Non-fiction

 * Thomas Moore - Memoirs of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aids to Reflection
 * William Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age

New drama

 * Harriet Lee - The Three Strangers
 * Alexander Pushkin - Boris Godunov (published 1831, but staged only in 1866)

Poetry

 * Felicia Hemans - The Forest Sanctuary
 * Esaias Tegnér - Frithiol's Saga

Births

 * January 11 - Bayard Taylor, poet (d. 1878)
 * February 18 - Mór Jókai, Hungrian dramatist and novelist (d. 1904)
 * April 24 - RM Ballantyne, juvenile fiction writer (d. 1894)
 * June 7 - R. D. Blackmore, novelist (d. 1900)
 * July 2 - Richard Henry Stoddard, critic and poet (d. 1903)
 * Date unknown
 * Jeanette Granberg, Swedish playwright (d. 1857)

Deaths

 * Henri Boulard, French literary figure
 * November 7 - Charlotte Dacre