1832 in literature

See also: 1831 in literature, other events of 1832, 1833 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The Houghton Mifflin publishing house founded in Boston, Massachusetts
• Publishers begin the use of a paper jacket to wrap book covers
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe completes Faust

New books

• Castle Dangerous – Sir Walter Scott
• Combination – Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
• Contarini Fleming – Benjamin Disraeli
• Count Robert of Paris – Sir Walter Scott
• The Doomed One – Rosalia St. Clair
• Eugene Aram – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• The Fair of Mayfair – Catherine Gore
• Fitzallan – Robert Huish
• Indiana – George Sand
• Legend of the Moor's Legacy – Washington Irving
• Nautical Reminiscences – Nathaniel Ames
• Newton Forster – Frederick Marryat
• The Opera – Catherine Gore
• The Unchanged – Selina Davenport
• Valentine – George Sand
• Volupte – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Births

• January 13 – Horatio Alger, Jr., writer (+ 1899)
• January 27 – Lewis Carroll, author (+ 1898)
• June 11 – Jules Vallés, writer (+ 1885)
• November 29 – Louisa May Alcott, author (+ 1888)
• Hesba Stretton, English children's author (+ 1911)

Deaths

• March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer and poet
• September 21 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet
• November 14 – Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish philologist

Awards