1834 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• The Captives in India - Barbara Hofland
• Father Goriot - Honore de Balzac
• The Hamiltons - Catherine Gore
• Jacob Faithful - Frederick Marryat
• The Last Days of Pompeii - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• Lucien Leuwen - Stendhal
• A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett - David Crockett
• The Pauper Boy - Rosalia St. Clair
• Personation - Selina Davenport
• Peter Simple - Frederick Marryat
• Poetical Works (last edition proofread by the author) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Rookwood - William Harrison Ainsworth
• Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle

• February 9 - Felix Dahn, author (+ 1912)
• William Morris, English poet (+ 1896)

• July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, writer
• December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist
• September 16 - William Blackwood, Scottish publisher
• December - Thomas Malthus