1836 in literature

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The year 1836 in literature involved some significant new books.

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New books

• Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed (January)
• Hans Christian Andersen - The Little Mermaid
• Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers
• Washington Irving - Astoria
• Frederick Marryat
  • The Pirate
  • Mr. Midshipman Easy
  • The Three Cutters
• Alexander Pushkin - The Captain's Daughter
• Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, A Black Man
• Catharine Parr Traill - The Backwoods of Canada
• Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
  • George Balcombe
  • The Partisan Leader

New drama

• Georg Büchner - Leonce and Lena

New Short Stories

• "La Morte Amoureuse" - Théophile Gautier

Poetry

• Robert Browning - "Porphyria's Lover"
• Oliver Wendell Holmes - Poems

Non-fiction

• Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature
• Washington Irving - Astoria
• G. W. M. Reynolds - Grace Darling
• Arthur Schopenhauer - Über den Willen in der Natur (On the Will in Nature)
• Søren Kierkegaard - On the Polemic of Fædrelandet

Births

• January 27 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer (died 1895)
• August 25 - Bret Harte, American author (died 1902)
• September 11 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (died 1870)
• November 11 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, poet and novelist (died 1870)
• November 18 - W. S. Gilbert, British humorist, playwright and librettist (died 1911)

Deaths

• March 9 - Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (born 1754)
• April 7 - William Godwin, political writer and novelist
• September 5 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (born 1790)
• September 12 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (born 1801)
• November 5 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (born 1810)
• December 1 - Jozef Ignác Bajza, Slovak satirist (born 1755)

Awards