1829 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1829.

Events

 * January 26 – The first performance of Douglas Jerrold's comic nautical melodrama Black-Eyed Susan; or, All in the Downs is held at the Surrey Theatre in Lambeth, London. It will run for a new record of well over 150 performances.
 * January 29 – The first complete performance of Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy (1808), adapted by August Klingemann, in Braunschweig.
 * September – The narrative of George Eliot's novel Middlemarch (1871–1872) opens.
 * October 29 – The English actress Fanny Kemble makes her stage debut as Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, at her father's Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.
 * December — John Neal publishes the final issue of The Yankee literary journal.
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 * Louis Braille invents a new alphabet and embossed printing that allows the blind to read.
 * The Raczyński Library in Poznań is opened to the public.

Fiction

 * Edward Bulwer-Lytton – Devereux
 * Honoré de Balzac – Les Chouans
 * Steen Steensen Blicher – The Rector of Veilbye (Præsten i Vejlbye)
 * William Nugent Glascock – Sailors and Saints, or Matrimonial Manœuvres
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or The Renunciants (Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, oder Die Entsagenden)
 * Catherine Gore – Romances of Real Life
 * Gerald Griffin – The Collegians
 * Victor Hugo – The Last Day of a Condemned Man (Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné)
 * Washington Irving – Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
 * George Payne Rainsford James – Richelieu
 * Julia Pardoe – Lord Morcar of Hereward
 * Thomas Love Peacock (anonymously) – The Misfortunes of Elphin
 * Walter Scott (anonymously) – Anne of Geierstein
 * Martin Archer Shee – Oldcourt
 * Horace Smith – The New Forest

Children

 * Frederick Marryat – The Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay

Drama

 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust (performed)
 * Victor Hugo – Marion Delorme
 * Douglas William Jerrold – Black-Eyed Susan
 * John Augustus Stone – Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags

Poetry

 * Edgar Allan Poe – Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems
 * Alfred Tennyson – Timbuctoo
 * Henrik Wergeland
 * Digte, første Ring (Poems, first circle)
 * Skabelsen, Mennesket og Messias (Creation, Man and the Messiah)

Non-fiction

 * Hans Christian Andersen – A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager (Fodrejse fra Holmens Canal til Østpynten af Amager i Aarene 1828 og 1829)
 * Thomas Carlyle – Signs of the Times
 * William Cobbett
 * The English Gardener
 * Advice to Young Men
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge – On the Constitution of Church and State
 * Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 1 (1st edition)
 * Washington Irving – Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
 * Cornelio Saavedra – Memoria autógrafa
 * Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon – Life of Belisarius
 * David Walker – Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America

Births

 * January 1 – Tommaso Salvini, Italian memoirist and actor (died 1915)
 * January 12 – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, née Mullins, Canadian novelist and poet (died 1879)
 * February 24 – Friedrich Spielhagen, German novelist (died 1911)
 * March 4 – Samuel Rawson Gardiner, English historian (died 1902)
 * April 24 – Luisa Cappiani, Austrian soprano, educator and essayist (died 1919)
 * April 26 – Eva Brag, Swedish poet, novelist and journalist (died 1913)
 * May 1 – José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (died 1877)
 * June 4 – Jane Lippitt Patterson, American writer and editor (died 1919)
 * July 19 – Helen Vickroy Austin, American essayist, journalist, and horticulturist (died 1921)
 * October 31 – Emma Tatham, English poet (died 1855)
 * September 12 – Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist and novelist (died 1900)
 * September 18 – Edna Dean Proctor, American poet and author (died 1923)
 * September 25 – William Michael Rossetti, English critic (died 1919)
 * November 21 – Martha Perry Lowe, American writer and activist (died 1902)
 * December 8 – Henry Timrod, American poet (died 1867)

Deaths

 * January 6 – Josef Dobrovský, Czech historian (born 1753)
 * January 11 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet and critic (born 1772)
 * January 15 – John Mastin, English memoirist, local historian and cleric (born 1747)
 * January 29 – István Pauli (Pável) Hungarian Slovene priest and writer (born 1760)
 * February 11 – Aleksander Griboyedov, Russian dramatist (killed by mob, born 1795)
 * July 7 – Jacob Friedrich von Abel, German philosopher (born 1751)
 * July 23 – Wojciech Bogusławski, Polish playwright and director (born 1757)
 * September 29 – Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont, political writer (born 1759)
 * October 10 – Maria Elizabetha Jacson, English writer on botany and gardening (born 1755)

Awards

 * Newdigate prize – Robert Stephen Hawker