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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1833.

Events

• January
  • The Knickerbocker is established by Charles Fenno Hoffman as The Knickerbacker: or, New-York monthly magazine.
  • Alphonse de Lamartine is elected a député of France. ^[1]
• c. January – Richard Bentley (publisher) issues the first collected edition of Jane Austen's novels.
• February 16 – Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet begin a fifty-year affair. This is recorded in his novel Les Misérables (1862) as the date of Marius and Cosette's wedding night (Part V, Book 6, Chapter 1).
• March 16 – Parley's Magazine, an American periodical for young readers, publishes its first issue in Boston.
• March 25 – Edmund Kean, playing Othello to the Iago of his son, Charles Kean, collapses on the stage of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, and dies two months later.
• June 10 – The Dramatic Authors Act passed in the United Kingdom grants playwrights copyright in their work.
• Summer – George Sand and Alfred de Musset begin a two-year affair, recorded in their respective novels Elle et lui (1859) and La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle (1836).
• September 15 – The English poet Arthur Henry Hallam, a close friend of Tennyson and engaged to be married to his sister Emily, dies suddenly of a brain haemorrhage in Vienna aged 22. This year in his memory Tennyson writes "Ulysses" (completed October 20; published in Poems of 1842), "Tithon" (an early version of "Tithonus") and "The Two Voices" (originally entitled "Thoughts of a Suicide"). He begins "Morte d'Arthur" (published 1842) and "Tiresias" (published 1885). In 1850 he will publish In Memoriam A.H.H.
• October 3 – The Anglo-Irish actress Harriet Smithson marries the French composer Hector Berlioz in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy in Paris.
• December 1 – Charles Dickens' first published work of fiction, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk", is the first item in what will become Sketches by Boz . It appears unsigned in the Monthly Magazine (London).
• unknown dates
  • Publication begins in England of The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , edited by George Long.
  • The first of the Bridgewater Treatises , examining science in relation to God, is published in England. ^[2]
  • The first complete German translation of Shakespeare's plays appears: Shakespeares Dramatische Werke, by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Ludwig Tieck and his daughter Dorothea, and Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin.
  • Mrs Favell Lee Mortimer's instructional text The Peep of Day, or, A series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving appears in England. It will sell a million copies in 38 languages. ^[3]
  • The first printing press in Jerusalem is set up in the Armenian Quarter. ^[4]

New books

Fiction

• Honoré de Balzac
  • Eugenie Grandet
  • Ferragus
  • Le Médecin de campagne (The Country Doctor)
• Edward Bulwer – Godolphin
• Thomas Carlyle – Sartor Resartus (first book publication)
• Massimo D'Azeglio – Ettore Fieramosca
• Benjamin Disraeli – Alroy
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Outre-Mer
• Alfred de Musset (attributed) – Gamiani, ou deux nuits d'excès (Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess)
• John Neal — The Down-Easters, &c. &c. &c. ^[5]
• Aleksandr Pushkin – Eugene Onegin («Евге́ний Оне́гин», verse novel, first complete book publication)
• George Sand
  • Andréa
  • Jacques
  • Kouroglou / Épopée Persane
  • Lelia
  • Leone Leoni
  • Mattéa
• Michael Scott – Tom Cringle's Log

Children and young people

• Agnes Strickland – Historical Tales of Illustrious British Children

Drama

• Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff – The Wooers
• Aleksander Fredro – Maidens' Vows, or the Magnetism of the Heart (Śluby panieńskie, czyli magnetyzm serca)
• Aleksander Griboyedov – Woe from Wit («Горе от ума», published posthumously with cuts)
• Victor Hugo
  • Lucrezia Borgia
  • Marie Tudor
• James Sheridan Knowles – The Wife
• Johann Nestroy – Lumpaziva gabundus
• Eugène Scribe – Bertrand et Raton, ou l'art de conspirer

Poetry

• Robert Browning – Pauline
• Hartley Coleridge – Poems, songs and sonnets ^[6]
• Wilhelm Hey (anonymously) – Fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder (Fifty Fables for Children)
• Alfred Tennyson – Poems (including "The Lady of Shalott", 1st version)
• See also 1833 in poetry

Non-fiction

• Franz Bopp – Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litthauischen, Altslawischen, Gotischen und Deutschen (Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend (Avestan), Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slavonic, Gothic and German, first part)
• Lydia Maria Child – An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
• Godfrey Higgins – Anacalypsis
• Charles Lamb – Last Essays of Elia
• Webster's Revision of the Bible

Births

• January 15 – Alexandru Papadopol-Calimah, Moldavian and Romanian historian, memoirist, and journalist (died 1898)
• January 23 – Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1907)
• May 27 – Hester Martha Poole, American writer, poet, and art critic (died 1932)
• June 19 – Mary Tenney Gray, American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (died 1904)
• July 9 – Florence Marryat, English novelist and entertainer (died 1899)
• August 9 – Emily Pepys, English child diarist (died 1877)
• August 12 – Lillie Devereux Blake, American writer and reformer (died 1913)
• August 20 – Vasile Pogor, Romanian poet, scholar and politician (died 1906)
• October 19 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet, jockey and politician (died 1870)
• October 8 – Edmund Clarence Stedman, American poet and critic (died 1908)
• October 21 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and entrepreneur, creator of the Nobel Prize (died 1896)
• November 2 – Horace Howard Furness, American Shakespearean scholar (died 1912)
• November 6 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (died 1908)
• November 9 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer (died 1873)
• November 22 – Martha Haines Butt, American novelist (died 1871)
• December 27 – Larin Paraske, Izhorian oral poet (died 1904)

Deaths

• January 14 – Gottlob Ernst Schulze, German philosopher (born 1761)
• February 3 – Nikolay Gnedich, Russian poet and translator (born 1784)
• February 4 – John O'Keeffe, Irish dramatist (born 1747)
• March 7 – Rahel Varnhagen, German literary hostess (born 1771)
• March 11 – Franz Passow, German classicist and lexicographer (born 1786)
• April 13 – Elisa von der Recke, German poet (born 1754)
• May 10 – François Andrieux, French man of letters and dramatist (born 1759)
• May 15 – Edmund Kean, English Shakespearean actor (born 1787)
• August 25 – Jean-Louis Laya, French dramatist (born 1761)
• September 7 – Hannah More, English religious writer and philanthropist (born 1745)
• September 15 – Arthur Hallam, English poet (born 1811)
• October 4 – Maria Jane Jewsbury (Fletcher), English writer, poet and reviewer, dies in India (born 1800)

References

1. Lynda Nead (August 1999). Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics of Law. University of Chicago Press. p. 194. ISBN   978-0-226-56953-6.
2. Robson, John (1990). "The Fiat and Finger of God: The Bridgewater Treatises". In Lightman, Bernard; Frank Turner (eds.). Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Change in Nineteenth-Century Religious Belief .
3. Pruzan, Todd (2005-06-10). "The Clumsiest People in Europe" . Retrieved 2013-09-27.
4. Prior, Michael P.; Taylor, William, eds. (1994). Christians in the Holy Land. World of Islam Festival Trust. p. 120. ISBN   9780905035321.
5. Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 145. ISBN   080-5-7723-08.
6. "Selected Poetry of Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)". Representative Poetry Online.