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Overview of the events of 1837 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1837.
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
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January 16 –
Ellen Russell Emerson, American author and ethnologist (died
1907)
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January 23 –
Agnes Maule Machar, Canadian novelist (died
1927)
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February 13 –
Emily S. Bouton, American author, editor, and educator (died
1927)
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February 24 –
Rosalía de Castro, Spanish
Galician poet and writer (died
1885)
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March 1
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March 6 –
Sully Prudhomme, French poet (died
1907)
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April 1 –
Jorge Isaacs (Ferrer), Colombian writer, politician and explorer (died
1895)
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April 5 –
Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (died
1909)
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April 7 –
Lou Singletary Bedford, American author and editor (unknown year of death)
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June 9 –
Anne Thackeray Ritchie, English novelist and essayist (died
1919)
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June 28 –
Petre P. Carp, Romanian politician, polemicist, and translator (died
1919)
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July 13 –
Mary Allen West, American writer, editor, and philanthropist (died
1892)
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August 24 –
Bertha Jane Grundy, English novelist (died
1912)
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October 15 –
Leo Königsberger, German historian of science (died
1921)
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October 21 –
Mary Alice Seymour, American music critic and editor (died
1897)
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December 4 –
Angie F. Newman, American poet, author, and editor (died
1910)
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December 10 –
Edward Eggleston, American novelist and historian (died
1902)
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December 11 –
Esther Saville Allen, American author (died
1913)
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December 17 –
Celia Logan, American actress and playwright (died
1904)
- unknown dates
Deaths
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January 29 –
Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (killed in duel, born
1799)
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February 7 –
Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere), English literary muse (born
1778)
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February 12 –
Ludwig Börne, German Jewish political writer and satirist (born
1786)
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February 19 –
Georg Büchner German dramatist, poet and author (
typhus, born
1813).
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March 9 –
Alexandru Hrisoverghi, Moldavian writer and translator (tabes dorsalis, born
1811)
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March 15 –
Lukijan Mušicki, Serbian poet (born
1777)
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June 12 –
Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann, German bookseller (born
1765)
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June 14 –
Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (cholera, born
1798)
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September 21 –
Georg Ludolf Dissen, German philologist (born
1784)
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October 19 –
Hendrik Doeff, Dutch travel writer (born
1764)
References