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Overview of the events of 1831 in literature
Overview of the events of 1831 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1831.
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January 2 – Justin Winsor , American historian and librarian (died 1897 )
January 3 – George Manville Fenn , English novelist and educationalist (died 1909 )
January 14 – John Cordy Jeaffreson , English novelist and non-fiction writer (died 1901 )
February 25 – Jane G. Austin , American writer (died 1894 )
January 26 – Mary Mapes Dodge , American children's writer (died 1907 )
February 16 – Nikolai Leskov , Russian novelist and playwright (died 1895 )
March 29 – Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr , English novelist and teacher (died 1919 )
April 9 – Clara Harrison Stranahan , American author and college founder (died 1905 )
April 19 – Mary Louise Booth , American writer, editor, and translator (died 1889 )
May 6 – Mary C. Ames , American writer (died 1884 )
June 7 – Amelia Edwards , English fiction writer and Egyptologist (died 1892 )
June 25 – Harriet Mann Miller , American author, naturalist, and ornithologist (died 1918 )
July 3 – Edmund Yates , Scottish writer (died 1894 )
July 5 – Cordelia A. Greene , American physician, reformer, benefactor (died 1905 )
July 7 – Jane Elizabeth Conklin , American religious writer and poet (died 1914 )
August 1 – William Aldis Wright , English writer and literary editor (died 1914 )
September 5 – Victorien Sardou , French dramatist (died 1908 )
September 12 – Álvares de Azevedo , Brazilian Ultra-Romantic writer (died 1852 )
October 7 – Eleanor Kirk , American writer (died 1908 )
October 15 – Helen Hunt Jackson , American poet, writer and activist (died 1885 )
October 19 – Fanny Murdaugh Downing , American author and poet (died 1894 )
unknown date – Nora Perry , American writer (died 1896 )[6]
January 2 – Barthold Georg Niebuhr , Danish-born German historian (born 1776 )
January 14 – Henry Mackenzie , Scottish novelist (born 1745 )
January 21 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim , German poet and novelist (heart attack, born 1781 )
February 25 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger , German dramatist and novelist, originator of Sturm und Drang (born 1752 )[7]
April 4 – Isaiah Thomas , American publisher (born 1749 )
June 30 – William Roscoe , English poet (born 1753 )
September 12 – Jippensha Ikku (十返舎 一九), Japanese novelist and humorist (born 1765 )
October 2 – José Agostinho de Macedo , Portuguese poet (born 1761 )
December 18 – Willem Bilderdijk , Dutch author (born 1756 )
December 26 – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio , Indian poet and teacher (born 1809 )
References [ edit ]
^ WorldCat entry
^ The development of Australian literature in the 19th century (PDF) , University of the Third Age , p. 4, archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-16, retrieved 2013-08-22
^ Hugh Chisholm; James Louis Garvin (1926). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information. 13th Ed . Encyclopædia britannica Company, Limited.
^ Candy Gunther Brown (2004). The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880 . Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-8078-5511-9 .
^ a b Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^ Robert McHenry (1980). Liberty's Women . G. & C. Merriam Company. p. 325. ISBN 978-0-87779-064-8 .
^ Ayres, H.M. (1917). "Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (1752–1831)". The Reader's Dictionary of Authors . New York: Warner Library Co. Retrieved 24 March 2019 .