1834 in literature
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See also: 1833 in literature, other events of 1834, 1835 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- The Captives in India - Barbara Hofland
- Eustace Conway - Frederick Maurice
- Le père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
- The Hamiltons - Catherine Gore
- Jacob Faithful - Frederick Marryat
- The Last Days of Pompeii - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
- Lucien Leuwen - Stendhal
- A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett - David Crockett
- The Pauper Boy - Rosalia St. Clair
- Personation - Selina Davenport
- Peter Simple - Frederick Marryat
- Poetical Works (last edition proofread by the author) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Rookwood - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle
Births
- February 9 - Felix Dahn, author (+ 1912)
- March 24 - William Morris, English poet and designer (+ 1896)
Deaths
- July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, writer
- December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist
- September 16 - William Blackwood, Scottish publisher
- December - Thomas Malthus