1837 in literature

See also: 1836 in literature, other events of 1837, 1838 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The Little, Brown publishing house opens its doors.

New books

• The Admirable Crichton – William Harrison Ainsworth
• Cesar Birotteau – Honoré de Balzac
• Falkner – Mary Shelley
• The French Revolution, A History – Thomas Carlyle
• Henrietta Temple – Benjamin Disraeli
• Live and Let Live – Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
• Nick of the Woods – Robert Montgomery Bird
• Only a Fiddler – Hans Christian Andersen
• Snarleyyow – Frederick Marryat
• Society in America – Harriet Martineau
• Twice Told Tales – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Venetia – Benjamin Disraeli

Births

• March 1 – William Dean Howells, writer (+ 1920)
• March 6 – Sully Prudhomme, poet (+ 1907)
• April 5 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (+ 1909)

Deaths

• January 29 – Alexander Pushkin, author

Awards