1829 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Louis Braille invents embossed printing that allows the blind to read.

• Anne of Geierstein - Sir Walter Scott
• The Chouans - Honore de Balzac
• A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada - Washington Irving
• Devereux - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• Fate and Fortune - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
• A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager - Hans Christian Andersen
• The Misfortunes of Elphin - Thomas Love Peacock
• The Naval Officer - Frederick Marryat
• On the Constitution of Church and State - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Romances of Real Life - Catherine Gore
• The Young Duke - Benjamin Disraeli

• March 16 - Sully Prudhomme, first Nobel Prize in Literature winner (+ 1907)

Deaths