1826 IN LITERATURE

The year '1826 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

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New books

★ Selina Bunbury - ''The Pastor's Tales''

★ James Fenimore Cooper - ''The Last of the Mohicans''

★ Benjamin Disraeli - ''Vivian Grey''

★ Catherine Gore - ''The Broken Heart''

★ Ann Hatton - ''Deeds of the Olden Time''

★ T. H. Lister - ''Granby''

★ Anna Maria Porter - ''Honor O'Hara''

★ Jane Porter & Anna Maria Porter - ''Tales Round a Winter Hearth''

★ Ann Radcliffe - ''Gaston de Blondeville''

★ Sir Walter Scott - ''Woodstock''

★ Mary Shelley - ''The Last Man''

★ Alfred de Vigny - ''Cinq-Mars''

New drama

★ Joanna Baillie - ''Martyr''

★ Mary Russell Mitford - ''Foscari''

Poetry

★ Heinrich Heine - ''Die Harzreise'' (''The Heart's Journey'')

★ Robert Hetrick - ''Poems and Songs of Robert Hetrick''

Non-fiction

★ Alicia Lefanu - ''Henry the Fourth of France''

★ Abigail Mott - ''Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color''

Births

★ February 3 - Walter Bagehot

★ February 16 - Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, poet

★ May 10 - Johann Peter Hebel, short story writer and poet

★ November 24 - Carlo Collodi

Deaths

★ February 17 - Johann Philipp Gabler, theologian

★ March 24 - Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, biographer of Mozart

★ March 29 - Johann Heinrich Voss, poet and translator

★ July 4 - Thomas Jefferson, philosopher, politician and author

★ October 3 - Jens Immanuel Baggesen, poet

★ ''date unknown'' - William Glen, poet

Awards

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