1824 in literature

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The year 1824 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• Julia Beckwith Hart becomes the first Canadian female writer to be published.
• The periodicals The Children's Friend and The Child's Companion both publish their first issues.

New books

• William Cardell - The Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy
• Mary Charlton - The Homicide
• Lydia Maria Child - Hobomok
• James Fenimore Cooper - The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea
• Susan Ferrier - The Inheritance
• Catherine Gore - Theresa Marchment, or The Maid of Honour
• Julia Beckwith Hart - St. Ursula's Convent
• James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
• Washington Irving - Tales of a Traveller
• Charles Maturin - The Albigenses
• Mary Russell Mitford - Our Village
• James Morier - Hajji Baba of Ispahan
• Regina Marie Roche - The Tradition of the Castle
• Susanna Haswell Rowson - Charlotte's Daughter
• Sir Walter Scott
  • St. Ronan's Well
  • Redgauntlet
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Redwood
• Louisa Stanhope - The Siege of Kenilworth

New drama

• Aleksandr Griboyedov - Woe from Wit

Poetry

• Thomas Campbell - Theodric; a domestic tale; and other poems
• Giacomo Leopardi - Canzoni and Versi
• Alfred de Vigny - Éloa, ou La sœur des anges

Births

• January 7 - Julia Kavanagh (+ 1877)
• January 8 - Wilkie Collins (+ 1889)
• May 19 - William Allingham (+ 1889)
• July 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils (+ 1895)
• December 10 - George MacDonald (+ 1905)

Deaths

• March 2 - Susanna Haswell Rowson, author
• April 19 - Lord Byron, poet
• October 30 - Charles Maturin

Awards

• March - Samuel Taylor Coleridge elected FRSL