1832 in literature

The year 1832 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * The Houghton Mifflin publishing house founded in Boston, Massachusetts
 * Publishers begin the use of a paper jacket to wrap book covers
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe completes Faust
 * Washington Irving returns to the United States, after living abroad for seventeen years.
 * Tait's Edinburgh Magazine begins publication.

New books

 * Nathaniel Ames - Nautical Reminiscences
 * Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - Eugene Aram
 * Selina Davenport - The Unchanged
 * Benjamin Disraeli - Contarini Fleming
 * Catherine Gore
 * The Fair of Mayfair
 * The Opera
 * Robert Huish - Fitzallan
 * Washington Irving - Tales of the Alhambra
 * Frederick Marryat - Newton Forster
 * Alexander Pushkin - Dubrovsky
 * Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve -Volupte
 * George Sand - Valentine
 * Sir Walter Scott
 * Castle Dangerous
 * Count Robert of Paris
 * Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - Combination
 * Rosalia St. Clair - The Doomed One

New drama

 * Casimir Delavigne - Louis XI
 * Victor Hugo - Le roi s'amuse

Poetry

 * Leigh Hunt - Poetical Works
 * Aleksandr Pushkin - Eugene Onegin
 * Alfred Tennyson - The Lady of Shalott

Non-fiction

 * John Austin -The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
 * Carl von Clausewitz - On War (Vom Kriege) (published posthumously)
 * Lord Mahon - History of the War of Succession in Spain

Births

 * January 13 - Horatio Alger, Jr., writer (+ 1899)
 * January 27 - Lewis Carroll, author (+ 1898)
 * June 10 - Sir Edwin Arnold, poet (+ 1904)
 * June 11 – Jules Vallés, writer (+ 1885)
 * November 29 - Louisa May Alcott, author  (+ 1888)
 * December 8 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Nobel Prize-winning novelist (+ 1910)
 * Hesba Stretton, English children's author (+ 1911)

Deaths

 * February 3 - George Crabbe, poet
 * March 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer and poet
 * September 21 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet
 * November 14 - Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish philologist
 * December 18 - Philip Morin Freneau, poet

Awards


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