1829 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1828 in literature, other events of 1829, 1830 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

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

New Books

• Anne of Geierstein - Sir Walter Scott
• The Chouans - Honoré de Balzac
• A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada - Washington Irving
• Black-Eyed Susan - Douglas William Jerrold
• Devereux - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• Fate and Fortune - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
• A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager - Hans Christian Andersen
• The Misfortunes of Elphin - Thomas Love Peacock
• The Naval Officer - Frederick Marryat
• On the Constitution of Church and State - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Richelieu - George Payne Rainsford James
• Romances of Real Life - Catherine Gore
• Salathiel - George Croly
• The Young Duke - Benjamin Disraeli

Births

• March 16 - Sully Prudhomme, first Nobel Prize in Literature winner (+ 1907)

Deaths

• September 29 - Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont, political writer

Awards