1834 in literature

The year 1834 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * November 24 - George Sand begins her journal to Alfred de Musset.

New books

 * William Harrison Ainsworth -Rookwood
 * Carl Jonas Love Almquist - Drottningens juvelsmycke
 * Honoré de Balzac - Le père Goriot
 * Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Last Days of Pompeii
 * Selina Davenport - Personation
 * Benjamin Disraeli - The Infernal Marriage
 * Catherine Gore - The Hamiltons
 * Barbara Hofland - The Captives in India
 * Frederick Marryat
 * Jacob Faithful
 * Peter Simple
 * Frederick Maurice - Eustace Conway
 * Aleksandr Pushkin - The Queen of Spades
 * Rosalia St. Clair - The Pauper Boy
 * Stendhal - Lucien Leuwen

New drama

 * Alfred de Musset - Lorenzaccio

Poetry

 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetical Works (last edition proofread by the author)

Non-fiction

 * George Bancroft - History of the United States, volume 1
 * David Crockett - A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett
 * Lancelot Edward Threlkeld - An Australian Grammar
 * Søren Kierkegaard - Another Defense Of Woman's Great Abilities

Births

 * February 9 - Felix Dahn, author (d. 1912)
 * March 24 - William Morris, English poet and designer (d. 1896)
 * April 5 - Frank R. Stockton, short story writer (d. 1902)
 * September 15 - Heinrich von Treitschke, historian (d. 1896)

Deaths

 * February 12 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, theologian and philosopher
 * July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, writer
 * December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist
 * September 16 - William Blackwood, Scottish publisher
 * December - Thomas Malthus