1830 in literature - Definition

See also: 1829 in literature, other events of 1830, 1831 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• The Admiral and His Protégé - Rosalia St. Clair
• Auchindrane - Sir Walter Scott
• The Barony - Anna Maria Porter
• Boris Godunov - Alexander Pushkin (written in 1825)
• The Corsair's Bride - Louisa Stanhope
• Crotchet Castle - Thomas Love Peacock
• The Doom of Devorgoil - Sir Walter Scott
• The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck - Mary Shelley
• The King's Own - Frederick Marryat
• A Mariner's Sketches - Nathaniel Ames
• Poems Chiefly Lyrical - Alfred Tennyson
• The Red and the Black - Stendhal
• A Tale of Our Times - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• The Water-Witch - James Fenimore Cooper

Births

• March 15 - Paul Heyse, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1910 (+ 1914)
• April 6 - Eugène Rambert, Swiss author
• May 20: Hector Malot, French writer of Without family (+ 1907)
• July 22 - Richard Copley Christie, scholar
• December 5 - Christina Georgina Rossetti (+ 1894) English poet
• December 10 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (+ 1886)
• December 17 - Jules de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt (+ 1870)

Deaths

• September 18 - William Hazlitt, British essayist

Awards