This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1834.
Sir Martin Archer Shee was an Irish portrait painter. He also served as the president of the Royal Academy.
William Carleton was an Irish writer and novelist. He is best known for his Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, a collection of ethnic sketches of the stereotypical Irishman.
Eyre Evans Crowe was an English journalist and historian.
Francis Hindes Groome was a writer and foremost commentator of his time on the Romani people, their language, life, history, customs, beliefs, and lore.
Anna Maria Hall was an Irish novelist who often published as "Mrs. S. C. Hall". She married Samuel Carter Hall, a writer on art, who described her in Retrospect of a Long Life, from 1815 to 1883. She was born Anna Maria Fielding in Dublin, but left Ireland for England at the age of 15.
Sydney, Lady Morgan, was an Irish novelist, best known for The Wild Irish Girl (1806), a romantic, and some critics suggest, "proto-feminist", novel with political and patriotic overtones. Her work, including continental travelogues, sparked controversy and faced censorship. She counted Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron among her defenders.
The Athenæum was a British literary magazine published in London, England, from 1828 to 1921.
Charles Cromwell Ingham was an Irish portrait painter and later a founder of the New York National Academy of Design.
Kilkenny City was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.
Sir William Shee was an Anglo-Irish politician, lawyer and judge, the first Roman Catholic judge to sit in England and Wales since the Reformation.
Sir Martin Archer-Shee CMG DSO was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician.
Edward Forster the Elder was an English banker and antiquary.
John Bacon Sawrey Morritt was an English traveller, politician and classical scholar.
Charles Macfarlane (1799–1858) was a Scottish writer, known as much for his historical and travel works as he was for his novels.
(John) Joseph Knight (1829–1907) was an English dramatic critic and theatre historian.
Kathleen O'Meara, also known under her pen name Grace Ramsay, was an Irish-French Catholic writer and biographer during the late Victorian era. She was the Paris correspondent of The Tablet, a leading British Catholic magazine. Irish Monthly also published many of her serialized and biographical works. O'Meara also wrote works of fiction where she explored a variety of topics from women's suffrage to eastern European revolutions. The majority of her novels contained Catholic themes and social reform issues.
Catherine Eliza Richardson was a Scottish author and poet who published a four-volume novel and three collections of verse.
Thomas Andrew Archer, M.A.Oxon. was an English historian of the Crusades.
