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The year '1835 in literature' involved some significant new books.

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Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ Alexis de Tocqueville publishes the first volume of ''Democracy in America''.

★ ''Memoir of James Jackson'', written by Susan Paul, is the earliest-known published narrative by an African-American woman and the first account documenting the life of free black child in the United States.

★ Hans Christian Andersen publishes the first of his 168 "''Fairy Tales''" for children.

★ Bertelsmann founded as a religious printer and publisher

New books

★ Hans Christian Andersen - ''The Improvisatore''

★ Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - ''The Student''

★ Theophile Gautier - ''Mademoiselle de Maupin''

★ Nikolai Gogol - ''Taras Bulba''

★ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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★ ''The Devil in Manuscript''

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★ ''Young Goodman Brown'' (short story)

★ Washington Irving - ''A Tour on the Prairies''

★ John P.Kennedy - ''Horseshoe Robinson''

★ Frederick Marryat - ''The Pacha of Many Tales''

★ Hugh Miller - ''Scenes and Legends in the North of Scotland''

★ Mary Russell Mitford - ''Belford Regis''

★ Julia Pardoe - ''The Mardens and the Daventrys''

★ G. W. M. Reynolds - ''The Youthful Imposter''

★ Catharine Maria Sedgwick - ''The Linwoods''

★ Mary Shelley - ''Lodore''

New drama

★ Georg Büchner - ''Dantons Tod''

★ Christian Dietrich Grabbe - ''Hannibal''

★ Thomas Noon Talfourd - ''Ion''

Poetry

★ Karl August Nicander - ''Hesperider''

Non-fiction

★ Susan Paul - ''Memoir of James Jackson''

★ Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun - ''Souvenirs'' (autobiography)

Births

★ November 30 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (+ 1910)

★ December 4 - Samuel Butler, writer (+ 1902)

Deaths

★ January 14 - Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist

Awards

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