1826 in literature
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This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1826.
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Events
- January 15 - The French newspaper Le Figaro begins publication in Paris, initially as a weekly.
- October - Tyrone Power gets his break as a principal Irish character actor at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.[1]
- October 17 - Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh marry[2] in Edinburgh.
- The Juvenile Miscellany, an American magazine for children, begins publishing in Boston. It lasts for ten years.
- The Ballantyne printing business in Edinburgh crashes, ruining Sir Walter Scott as a principal investor. He undertakes to repay his creditors from his writings. His publisher Archibald Constable also fails.
- The Hachette publishing business in Paris is established by Louis Christophe François Hachette.
New books
- Selina Bunbury - The Pastor's Tales
- James Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans
- Benjamin Disraeli - Vivian Grey
- William Nugent Glascock - The Naval Sketch Book, or The Service Afloat and Ashore
- Catherine Gore - The Broken Heart
- Ann Hatton - Deeds of the Olden Time
- Wilhelm Hauff
- Die Bettlerin vom Pont des Arts ("The True Lover's Fortune; or, the Beggar of the Pont des Arts")
- Lichtenstein
- Märchen almanach auf das Jahr 1826 ("Fairytale Almanac")
- Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan ("Memoirs of Beelzebub", first part)
- Victor Hugo - Bug-Jargal
- Bernhard Severin Ingemann - Valdemar Seier: En historisk Roman ("Valdemar the Victorious: an historical romance")
- T. H. Lister - Granby
- Anna Maria Porter - Honor O'Hara
- Jane Porter & Anna Maria Porter - Tales Round a Winter Hearth
- Ann Radcliffe - Gaston de Blondeville
- Sir Walter Scott - Woodstock
- Mary Shelley - The Last Man
- Alfred de Vigny - Cinq-Mars
New drama
- Joanna Baillie - Martyr
- Mary Russell Mitford - Foscari
- Eugène Scribe - Bertrand et Suzette; ou Le Mariage de raison
Poetry
- Heinrich Heine - Die Harzreise (The Harz Journey)
- Felicia Dorothea Hemans - Casabianca, in The New Monthly Magazine (August)
- Robert Hetrick - Poems and Songs of Robert Hetrick
Non-fiction
- Burke's Landed Gentry
- Wilhelm Hauff - Kontroverspredigt über H. Clauren und den Mann im Mond
- Georg Konrad Horst - Zauber-Bibliothek (1821-1826)
- Dietrich Georg von Kieser - System des Tellurismus oder thierisches Magnetismus
- William Kirby & William Spence - An Introduction to Entomology: or Elements of The Natural History of Insects
- Alicia Lefanu - Henry the Fourth of France
- Abigail Mott - Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color
- Josiah Priest - The Wonders of Nature
Births
- February 3 – Walter Bagehot, English essayist and journalist (died 1877)
- February 16 – Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, German poet and novelist (died 1886)
- June 2 – Richard Holt Hutton, English essayist and journalist (died 1897)
- September 8 – Addison Peale Russell, American essayist (died 1912)
- November 24 – Carlo Collodi, Italian children's author (died 1890)
- Unknown date – Thomas Chenery, Barbadian-born English scholar and editor (died 1884)
Deaths
- February 17 – Johann Philipp Gabler, German Protestant theologian (born 1753)
- March 24 – Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, Danish music historian and biographer (born 1761)
- March 29 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet and translator (born 1751)
- June 19 – Elsa Fougt, Swedish editor and publisher (born 1744)
- July 4 – Thomas Jefferson, American philosopher, politician and author (born 1743)
- July 25 (July 13 O.S.) – Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (hanged, born 1795)
- September 22 – Johann Peter Hebel, German short story writer and poet (born 1760)
- October? – Elizabeth Meeke, English popular novelist (born 1761)
- October 3 – Jens Immanuel Baggesen, Danish poet (born 1764)
- October 19 – François-Joseph Talma, French actor (born 1763)
- December – William Glen, Scottish poet (born 1789)
In literature
References
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