1830 in literature

See also: 1829 in literature, other events of 1830, 1831 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New books

• The Admiral and His Protégé – Rosalia St. Clair
• Auchindrane – Sir Walter Scott
• The Barony – Anna Maria Porter
• Boris Godunov – Alexander Pushkin (written in 1825)
• The Corsair's Bride – Louisa Stanhope
• Crotchet Castle – Thomas Love Peacock
• The Doom of Devorgoil – Sir Walter Scott
• The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck – Mary Shelley
• The King's Own – Frederick Marryat
• A Mariner's Sketches – Nathaniel Ames
• Old Ironsides – Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Paul Clifford – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• Poems Chiefly Lyrical – Alfred Tennyson
• The Red and the Black – Stendhal
• A Tale of Our Times – Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• The Water-Witch – James Fenimore Cooper

Births

• March 15 – Paul Heyse, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1910 (+ 1914)
• April 6 – Eugène Rambert, Swiss author
• May 20: Hector Malot, French writer of Without family (+ 1907)
• July 22 – Richard Copley Christie, scholar
• December 5 – Christina Georgina Rossetti (+ 1894) English poet
• December 10 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (+ 1886)
• December 17 – Jules de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt (+ 1870)

Deaths

• September 18 – William Hazlitt, British essayist

Awards