1831 in literature
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See also: 1830 in literature, other events of 1831, 1832 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- The play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "chauvinism."
- William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the Liberator, an abolitionist periodical.
- The Sydney Morning Herald is first published.
New books
- Gerald Fitzgerald - Anne Hatton
- Notre Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo
- The Last of the Lyals - Rosalia St. Clair
- The Queen's Page - Selina Davenport
- The Spirit of the Age - John Stuart Mill
- The Tuileries - Catherine Gore
- The Young Duke - Benjamin Disraeli
New drama
- Robert Montgomery Bird - Gladiator
Poetry
- Giacomo Leopardi - Canti
- Edgar Allan Poe - Poems
Births
- January 2 - Justin Winsor, historian and librarian (+ 1897)
- January 26 - Mary Mapes Dodge, writer (+ 1907)
- February 16 - Nikolai Leskov, novelist (+ 1895)
- August 1 - William Aldis Wright, literary editor (+ 1914)
- September 5 - Victorien Sardou, dramatist (+ 1908)
- October 15 - Helen Hunt Jackson, writer-activist (+ 1885)
Deaths
- January 2 - Barthold Georg Niebuhr, historian
- January 21 - Ludwig Achim von Arnim
- February 25 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, dramatist and novelist, originator of Sturm und Drang
- April 4 - Isaiah Thomas, publisher
- June 30 - William Roscoe, English poet
- December 18 - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author
Awards
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