1829 in literature

See also: 1828 in literature, other events of 1829, 1830 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Louis Braille invents embossed printing that allows the blind to read.

New books

• Anne of Geierstein – Sir Walter Scott
• The Chouans – Honoré de Balzac
• A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada – Washington Irving
• Black-Eyed Susan – Douglas William Jerrold
• Devereux – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• Fate and Fortune – Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
• A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager – Hans Christian Andersen
• The Misfortunes of Elphin – Thomas Love Peacock
• The Naval Officer – Frederick Marryat
• On the Constitution of Church and State – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Richelieu – George Payne Rainsford James
• Romances of Real Life – Catherine Gore
• Salathiel – George Croly
• The Young Duke – Benjamin Disraeli

New drama

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust

Births

• February 24 – Friedrich von Spielhagen, novelist
• March 4 – Samuel Rawson Gardiner, historian
• March 16 – Sully Prudhomme, first Nobel Prize in Literature winner (+ 1907)
• May 1 – José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (d. 1877)
• September 25 – William Michael Rossetti, critic and founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Deaths

• January 11 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, poet and critic
• July 7 – Jacob Friedrich von Abel, philosopher
• September 29 – Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont, political writer

Awards