1825 in literature

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The year 1825 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• Henri Boulard (born 1754) dies, leaving behind one of the greatest book collections in history, with a library containing more than half a million books.

New books

Fiction

• John Banim & Michael Banim - Tales of the O'Hara Family
• Lydia Maria Child - The Rebels
• Sarah Green - Parents and Wives
• Wilhelm Hauff - Der Mann im Mond
• Barbara Hofland - Moderation
• Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - A Father's Love and a Woman's Friendship
• Sir Walter Scott
  • The Betrothed
  • The Talisman
• R. P. Ward - Man of Refinement

Non-fiction

• Thomas Moore - Memoirs of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aids to Reflection
• William Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age

New drama

• Harriet Lee - The Three Strangers
• Alexander Pushkin - Boris Godunov (published 1831, but staged only in 1866)

Poetry

• Felicia Hemans - The Forest Sanctuary
• Esaias Tegnér - Frithiol's Saga

Births

• January 11 - Bayard Taylor, poet (died 1878)
• February 18 - Mór Jókai, Hungrian dramatist and novelist (died 1904)
• April 24 - RM Ballantyne, juvenile fiction writer (died 1894)
• June 7 - R. D. Blackmore, novelist (died 1900)
• July 2 - Richard Henry Stoddard, critic and poet (died 1903)
• Date unknown
  • Jeanette Granberg, Swedish playwright (died 1857)

Deaths

• Henri Boulard, French literary figure
• November 7 - Charlotte Dacre

Awards