1833 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1833.

Events

• January – The Knickerbocker is established by Charles Fenno Hoffman as The Knickerbacker: or, New-York monthly magazine.
• c. January – Richard Bentley (publisher) issues the first collected edition of Jane Austen's novels.
• March 25 – Edmund Kean, playing Othello to the Iago of his son, Charles Kean, collapses on the stage of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, dying two months later.
• June 10 – Dramatic Authors Act passed in the United Kingdom granting playwrights copyright in their work.
• Summer – George Sand and Alfred de Musset begin a two-year affair.^[1]
• September 15 – English poet Arthur Henry Hallam, a friend of Tennyson (and fiancé of his sister Emily), dies suddenly of a brain haemorrhage in Vienna aged 22. This year in his memory Tennyson writes "Ulysses" (completed October 20; published in Poems of 1842), "Tithon" (an early version of "Tithonus") and "The Two Voices" (originally entitled "Thoughts of a Suicide") and begins "Morte d'Arthur" (published 1842) and "Tiresias" (published 1885). In 1850 he will publish In Memoriam A.H.H.
• October 3 – Anglo-Irish actress Harriet Smithson marries French composer Hector Berlioz in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy in Paris.
• December 1 – Charles Dickens's first published work of fiction, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk", first of what will become Sketches by Boz, appears unsigned in the Monthly Magazine (London).
• Alphonse de Lamartine is elected a député of France.
• Parley's Magazine, an American periodical for young readers, publishes its first issue.
• Publication of The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, edited by George Long, begins in England.
• First of the Bridgewater Treatises, examining science in relation to God, is published in England.^[2]
• Publication of the first complete German translation of Shakespeare's plays, Shakespeares Dramatische Werke, by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Ludwig Tieck and his daughter Dorothea, and Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin.
• Publication of Mrs Favell Lee Mortimer's instructional text The Peep of Day, or, A series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving in England; this sells a million copies in 38 languages.^[3]
• The first printing press in Jerusalem is set up in the Armenian Quarter.^[4]

New books

Fiction

• Honoré de Balzac
  • Eugenie Grandet
  • Ferragus
  • Le Médecin de campagne ("The Country Doctor")
• Edward Bulwer – Godolphin
• Thomas Carlyle – Sartor Resartus
• Massimo D'Azeglio – Ettore Fieramosca
• Benjamin Disraeli – Alroy
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Outre-Mer
• Alfred de Musset (attributed) – Gamiani, ou deux nuits d'excès ("Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess")
• Aleksandr Pushkin – Eugene Onegin («Евге́ний Оне́гин», verse novel, first complete book publication)
• George Sand
  • Andréa
  • Jacques
  • Kouroglou / Épopée Persane
  • Lelia
  • Leone Leoni
  • Mattéa
• Michael Scott – Tom Cringle's Log

Children and young people

• Agnes Strickland – Historical Tales of Illustrious British Children

Drama

• Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff – The Wooers
• Aleksander Fredro – Maidens' Vows, or the Magnetism of the Heart (Śluby panieńskie, czyli magnetyzm serca)
• Aleksander Griboyedov – Woe from Wit («Горе от ума», published posthumously with cuts)
• Victor Hugo
  • Lucrezia Borgia
  • Marie Tudor
• Johann Nestroy – Lumpaziva gabundus
• Eugène Scribe – Bertrand et Raton, ou l'art de conspirer

Poetry

• Robert Browning – Pauline
• Hartley Coleridge – Poems, songs and sonnets ^[5]
• Wilhelm Hey (anonymously) – Fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder (Fifty Fables for Children)
• Alfred Tennyson – Poems (including "The Lady of Shalott", 1st version)
• See also 1833 in poetry

Non-fiction

• Franz Bopp – Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litthauischen, Altslawischen, Gotischen und Deutschen ("Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend (Avestan), Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slavonic, Gothic and German", first part)
• Godfrey Higgins – Anacalypsis
• Charles Lamb – Last Essays of Elia
• Webster's Revision of the Bible

Births

• January 23 – Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1907)
• July 9 – Florence Marryat, English novelist and entertainer (died 1899)
• August 9 – Emily Pepys, English child diarist (died 1877)
• August 20 – Vasile Pogor, Romanian poet, scholar and politician (died 1906)
• October 19 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet, jockey and politician (died 1870)
• October 8 – Edmund Clarence Stedman, American poet and critic (died 1908)
• October 21 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and entrepreneur, creator of the Nobel Prize (died 1896)
• November 2 – Horace Howard Furness, American Shakespearean scholar (died 1912)
• November 6 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (died 1908)
• November 9 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer (died 1873)
• December 27 – Larin Paraske, Izhorian oral poet (died 1904)

Deaths

• January 14 – Gottlob Ernst Schulze, German philosopher (born 1761)
• February 3 – Nikolay Gnedich, Russian poet and translator (born 1784)
• February 4 – John O'Keeffe, Irish dramatist (born 1747)
• March 7 – Rahel Varnhagen, German literary hostess (born 1771)
• March 11 – Franz Passow, German classicist and lexicographer (born 1786)
• April 13 – Elisa von der Recke, German poet (born 1754)
• May 10 – François Andrieux, French man of letters and dramatist (born 1759)
• May 15 – Edmund Kean, English Shakespearean actor (born 1787)
• August 25 – Jean-Louis Laya, French dramatist (born 1761)
• September 7 – Hannah More, English religious writer and philanthropist (born 1745)
• September 15 – Arthur Hallam, English poet (born 1811)

Awards

References