# 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.

## New books
### 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
* Prosper Mérimée – A Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX
* 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 – A 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