1826 in literature

The year 1826 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * The Juvenile Miscellany, an American magazine for children, begins publishing in Boston. It lasts for ten years.

New books

 * Selina Bunbury - The Pastor's Tales
 * James Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans
 * Benjamin Disraeli - Vivian Grey
 * Catherine Gore - The Broken Heart
 * Ann Hatton - Deeds of the Olden Time
 * Wilhelm Hauff - Lichtenstein
 * Victor Hugo - Bug-Jargal
 * T. H. Lister - Granby
 * Anna Maria Porter - Honor O'Hara
 * Jane Porter & Anna Maria Porter - Tales Round a Winter Hearth
 * Ann Radcliffe - Gaston de Blondeville
 * Sir Walter Scott - Woodstock
 * Mary Shelley - The Last Man
 * Alfred de Vigny - Cinq-Mars

New drama

 * Joanna Baillie - Martyr
 * Mary Russell Mitford - Foscari

Poetry

 * Heinrich Heine - Die Harzreise (The Heart's Journey)
 * Robert Hetrick - Poems and Songs of Robert Hetrick

Non-fiction

 * William Kirby & William Spence - An Introduction to Entomology: or Elements of The Natural History of Insects
 * Alicia Lefanu - Henry the Fourth of France
 * Abigail Mott - Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color

Births

 * February 3 - Walter Bagehot
 * February 16 - Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, poet
 * May 10 - Johann Peter Hebel, short story writer and poet
 * September 8 - Addison Peale Russell, American essayist (d. 1912)
 * November 24 - Carlo Collodi

Deaths

 * February 17 - Johann Philipp Gabler, theologian
 * March 24 - Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, biographer of Mozart
 * March 29 - Johann Heinrich Voss, poet and translator
 * July 4 - Thomas Jefferson, philosopher, politician and author
 * October 3 - Jens Immanuel Baggesen, poet
 * date unknown - William Glen, poet
 * Elsa Fougt, Swedish editor and publisher (b. 1744)