1835 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1834 in literature, other events of 1835, 1836 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Alexis de Tocqueville publishes the first volume of Democracy in America.
• Memoir of James Jackson, written by Susan Paul, is the earliest-known published narrative by an African-American woman and the first account documenting the life of free black child in the United States.
• Hans Christian Andersen publishes the first of his 168 "Fairy Tales" for children.
• Bertelsmann founded as a religious printer and publisher

New Books

• Belford Regis - Mary Russell Mitford
• The Devil in Manuscript - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Heaven's My Destination - Thornton Wilder
• Horseshoe Robinson - John P.Kennedy
• The Improvisatore - Hans Christian Andersen
• The Linwoods - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• Lodore - Mary Shelley
• Mademoiselle de Maupin - Theophile Gautier
• Memoir of James Jackson - Susan Paul
• The Pacha of Many Tales - Frederick Marryat
• Scenes and Legends in the North of Scotland - Hugh Miller
• Souvenirs (autobiography) - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
• The Student - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• Taras Bulba - Nikolai Gogol
• A Tour on the Prairies - Washington Irving

Births

• November 30 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (+ 1910)
• December 4 - Samuel Butler, writer (+ 1902)

Deaths

• January 14 - Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist

Awards