1829 in literature

The year 1829 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * Louis Braille invents embossed printing that allows the blind to read.

New books

 * Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - Devereux
 * Honoré de Balzac - Les Chouans
 * Catherine Gore - Romances of Real Life
 * Washington Irving - Chronicles of the Conquest of Granada
 * George Payne Rainsford James - Richelieu
 * Frederick Marryat - The Naval Officer
 * Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - Fate and Fortune
 * Julia Pardoe - Lord Morcar of Hereward
 * Thomas Love Peacock - The Misfortunes of Elphin
 * Sir Walter Scott - Anne of Geierstein

New drama

 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
 * Victor Hugo - Marion Delorme
 * Douglas William Jerrold - Black-Eyed Susan
 * John Augustus Stone - Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags

Poetry

 * Edgar Allan Poe - Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems
 * Alfred Tennyson - Timbuctoo

Non-fiction

 * Hans Christian Andersen - A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge - On the Constitution of Church and State
 * Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 1 (1st edition)
 * Washington Irving - A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
 * Lord Mahon - Life of Belisarius
 * David Walker -Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America

Births

 * January 1 - Tommaso Salvini, actor and memoirist
 * February 24 - Friedrich von Spielhagen, novelist
 * March 4 - Samuel Rawson Gardiner, historian
 * March 16 - Sully Prudhomme, first Nobel Prize in Literature winner (+ 1907)
 * May 1 - José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (d. 1877)
 * September 12 - Charles Dudley Warner, essayist and novelist (d. 1900)
 * September 25 - William Michael Rossetti, critic and founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
 * December 8 - Henry Timrod, poet (d. 1867)

Deaths

 * January 6 - Josef Dobrovský, historian
 * January 11 - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, poet and critic
 * February 11 - Alexandr Griboyedov, dramatist
 * July 7 - Jacob Friedrich von Abel, philosopher
 * September 29 - Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont, political writer

Awards

 * Newdigate prize - Robert Stephen Hawker