1837 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1837.

Events

February 19 – German writer Georg Büchner (born 1813) dies of typhus in Zurich leaving his play Woyzeck unfinished.
June 16 – Charles Dickens is first introduced to the actor William Macready by John Forster backstage at a rehearsal of Othello.^[1]
July – English "peasant poet" John Clare first enters an asylum for the insane, at High Beach in Essex.
September – In Burton's Gentleman's Magazine (Philadelphia), William Evans Burton publishes an early example of the detective story, "The Secret Cell", featuring a London police officer and his wife.^[2]
October – First publication of the The United States Magazine and Democratic Review.^[3]
October 4 – Andreas Munch's first play, Kong Sverres Ungdom, opens the Christiania Theatre´s new building in Norway.^[4]
The Little, Brown and Company publishing house opens its doors in Boston, Massachusetts.^[5]

W. Harrison Ainsworth – Crichton
Honoré de Balzac
- Cesar Birotteau
- Lost Illusions, Part I: The Two Poets
Richard Harris Barham – The Ingoldsby Legends (serialization begins in Bentley's Miscellany)
Robert Montgomery Bird – Nick of the Woods
Sara Coleridge – Phantasmion
Hendrik Conscience – In 't Wonderjaar 1566
Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist (serialization begins in Bentley's Miscellany, February)^[6]
- The Pickwick Papers (serial publication concludes November; first book publication)
Benjamin Disraeli
- Henrietta Temple
- Venetia
Lady Mary Fox – An Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland^[7]
Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé – L'Influence d'un livre
Jeremias Gotthelf – Bauernspiegel
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Twice-Told Tales
Julia Kavanagh – Adele
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing as "L.E.L." – Ethel Churchill, or The Two Brides
Catharine Maria Sedgwick – Live and Let Live
Victor Séjour – Le Mulâtre (the earliest known work of African American fiction, published in Revue des Colonies, March)
Mary Shelley – Falkner

Hans Christian Andersen
- "The Little Mermaid" (Den lille havfrue) and "The Emperor's New Clothes" (Kejserens nye Klæder) in Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection (Eventyr, fortalte for Børn), Third Booklet, April 7
- Only a Fiddler
Frederick Marryat – Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend
Robert Southey – "The Story of the Three Bears" (in The Doctor)

Charles Babbage – Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation
Charles Ball – Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, A Black Man
Bernard Bolzano – Wissenschaftslehre (Theory of Science)
Thomas Carlyle – The French Revolution: A History
Washington Irving – The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
Harriet Martineau – Society in America
William H. Prescott – The History of Ferdinand and Isabella
Martin Tupper – Proverbial Philosophy
Andrew Ure – A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
Adelbert von Chamisso – Über die Hawaiische Sprache (On the Hawaiian Language)

January 23 – Agnes Maule Machar, Canadian novelist (died 1927)
February 24 – Rosalía de Castro, Spanish Galician poet and writer (died 1885)
March 1
- Ion Creangă, Romanian raconteur (died 1889)
- William Dean Howells, American writer (died 1920)
March 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet (died 1907)
April 1 – Jorge Isaacs (Ferrer), Colombian writer, politician and explorer (died 1895)
April 5 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (died 1909)
June 9 – Anne Thackeray Ritchie, English novelist and essayist (died 1919)
June 28 – Petre P. Carp, Romanian politician, polemicist, and translator (died 1919)
October 15 – Leo Königsberger, German historian of science (died 1921)
December 10 – Edward Eggleston, American novelist and historian (died 1902)

January 29 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (killed in duel, born 1799)
February 12 – Ludwig Börne, German Jewish political writer and satirist (born 1786)
March 9 – Alexandru Hrisoverghi, Moldavian writer and translator (tabes dorsalis, born 1811)
March 15 – Lukijan Mušicki, Serbian poet (born 1777)
June 12 – Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann, German bookseller (born 1765)
June 14 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (cholera, born 1798)
September 21 – Georg Ludolf Dissen, German philologist (born 1784)
October 19 – Hendrik Doeff, Dutch travel writer (born 1764)

Jules Verne's novel Family Without a Name (Famille-sans-nom, 1889) is set during the Lower Canada Rebellion opening this year.

↑ "The Lamplighter – by Charles Dickens (1838)". Retrieved 2014-12-17.
↑ Sims, Michael, ed. (2011). The Dead Witness: a Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 1–38. ISBN 9781408818633.
↑ "Making of America". Cornell University Library. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
↑ Aarnes, Sigurd Aa. "Andreas Munch". In Helle, Knut. Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2013-08-08.
↑ "A Brief History of Little, Brown and Company". New York: Little, Brown and Company. 2012. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
↑ Pierce, Peter (2009). The Cambridge History of Australian Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052188165X.

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