1835 in literature

Events

• February 17 – William Colenso prints the first book in New Zealand, a translation into the Māori language of the Epistle to the Philippians and Epistle to the Ephesians.
• c. early March – John Stuart Mill's maid accidentally burns the unpublished first volume manuscript of Thomas Carlyle's .
• May 8 – The first of Hans Christian Andersen's 168 fantastic stories are published as Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, including "The Tinderbox" and "The Princess and the Pea". On December 16 a second collection including "Thumbelina" is published.
• July – Bertelsmann is founded by Carl Bertelsmann as a religious printer and publisher in Prussia.
• November/December – The German Federal Convention prohibits circulation of work by members of the "Young Germany" group of writers and the exiled poet Heinrich Heine.

• Memoir of James Jackson, written by Susan Paul, is the earliest-known published narrative by an African-American woman and the first account documenting the life of a free black child in the United States.
• The annual Icelandic language journal Fjölnir is first published in Copenhagen by four Icelanders, Jónas Hallgrímsson, Konráð Gíslason, Brynjólfur Pétursson and Tómas Sæmundsson, promoting romanticism in Icelandic literature and the Icelandic independence movement.
• The remains of Jonathan Swift are uncovered during work on St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and inspected by William Wilde, an apprentice surgeon at this time.

  New books

Fiction

• Honoré de Balzac -
• *Le Contrat de mariage
• *Séraphîta
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Student
• Théophile Gautier – Mademoiselle de Maupin
• Nikolai Gogol
• *Arabesques, including "Diary of a Madman" and "The Portrait"
• *Mirgorod, including "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich" and "Taras Bulba"
• Karl Gutzkow – Wally die Zweiflerin
• Joseph C. Hart – Miriam Coffin, or The Whale-Fisherman
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• *The Devil in Manuscript
• *"Young Goodman Brown"
• Washington Irving – The Crayon Miscellany, including "A Tour on the Prairies"
• Hannah Maria Jones – The Gipsy Mother, or, The miseries of enforced marriage: a tale of mystery
• John P. Kennedy – Horseshoe Robinson
• Prosper Mérimée – "La Vénus d'Ille"
• Hugh Miller – Scenes and Legends in the North of Scotland
• Mary Russell Mitford – Belford Regis
• Caroline Norton – The Wife, and Woman's Reward
• Julia Pardoe – The Mardens and the Daventrys
• G. W. M. Reynolds – The Youthful Impostor
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick – The Linwoods
• Mary Shelley – Lodore
• Alfred de Vigny – Servitude et grandeur militaires

  Children and young people

• Hans Christian Andersen
• *Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection
• *The Improvisatore
• Edward Augustus Kendall
• *Burford Cottage and Its Robin Red Breast
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• Jane Marcet – Mary's Grammar
• Frederick Marryat – The Pacha of Many Tales
• Agnes Strickland – Tales of the School Room

  Drama

• Georg Büchner – Danton's Death
• Christian Dietrich Grabbe – Hannibal
• Victor Hugo – Angelo, Tyrant of Padua
• Friedrich Kaiser – Hans Hasenkopf
• William Thomas Moncrieff – The Jewess
• John Oxenford
• *My Fellow Clerk
• *Twice Killed
• *A Day Well Spent
• Thomas Noon Talfourd – Ion
• Alfred de Vigny – Chatterton

  Poetry

• Robert Browning – Paracelsus
• Elias Lönnrot – Kalevala
• Karl August Nicander – Hesperider
• See also 1835 in poetry

  Non-fiction

• Edward Blyth – "An Attempt to Classify the 'Varieties' of Animals..."
• Maria Callcott – Little Arthur's History of England
• James Cowles Prichard – Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind
• Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America, vol. 1
• David Strauss – Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet
• Connop Thirlwall – History of Greece
• Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun – Souvenirs

  Births

• January 20 – Lucy Hamilton Hooper, American writer
• January 29 – Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, American children's writer
• February 14 – Mary Spear Nicholas Tiernan, American writer
• February 22 – Lillian Spender, English novelist
• March 25 – Minnie S. Davis, American author and mental scientist
• March 28 – Mary H. Gray Clarke, American writer
• April 3 – Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, American writer
• April 10 – Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster, Scottish novelist and essayist
• April 10 – Louise Chandler Moulton, American writer and critic
• April 23 – Luisa Cappiani, Austrian soprano, educator and essayist
• April 25 – Emma Scarr Booth, English-born American author
• May 8 – Augusta Jane Evans, American author
• June 5 – Amanda Kerfstedt, Swedish novelist and playwright
• June 26 – Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and travel writer
• June 29 – Celia Laighton Thaxter, American writer
• July 1 ' – Mary Catherine Chase, American nun and writer
• October 4 – Mary Elizabeth Braddon, English novelist
• November 30 – Mark Twain, American novelist and humorist
• December 4 – Samuel Butler, English novelist

• Emilia Marryat, English children's writer '
• Henrietta Gould Rowe, American litterateur and author

  Deaths

• January 1 – Mátyás Godina, Hungarian hymnist and educational writer in Prekmurje dialect of Slovenian
• March 30 – Richard Sharp, English poet, critic and wit
• April 8 – Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher
• April 2 – István Ballér, Slovene hymnist and Lutheran minister
• April 17 – William Henry Ireland, English poet and forger of Shakespeariana
• June 18 – William Cobbett, English journalist and social commentator
• August 23 – Isaac Pocock, English dramatist
• December 17 – Pierre Louis Roederer, French politician, economist, and historian
• December 25 – Antoine Ó Raifteiri, Irish poet writing in Gaelic