1835 in literature

See also: 1834 in literature, other events of 1835, 1836 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Alexis de Tocqueville publishes the first volume of Democracy in America.
• Memoir of James Jackson, written by Susan Paul, is the earliest-known published narrative by an African-American woman and the first account documenting the life of free black child in the United States.
• Hans Christian Andersen publishes the first of his 168 "Fairy Tales" for children.
• Bertelsmann founded as a religious printer and publisher

New books

• Belford Regis – Mary Russell Mitford
• The Devil in Manuscript – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Heaven's My Destination – Thornton Wilder
• Horseshoe Robinson – John P.Kennedy
• The Improvisatore – Hans Christian Andersen
• The Linwoods  – Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• Lodore – Mary Shelley
• Mademoiselle de Maupin – Theophile Gautier
• Memoir of James Jackson – Susan Paul
• The Pacha of Many Tales – Frederick Marryat
• Scenes and Legends in the North of Scotland – Hugh Miller
• Souvenirs (autobiography) – Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
• The Student – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• Taras Bulba – Nikolai Gogol
• A Tour on the Prairies – Washington Irving

Births

• November 30 – Samuel Langhorne Clemens (+ 1910)
• December 4 – Samuel Butler, writer (+ 1902)

Deaths

• January 14 – Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist

Awards