1825 in literature

Children

• Maria Hack – English Stories. Third Series, Reformation under the Tudor Princes

Drama

• Caroline Boaden – Quite Correct
• Aleksander Griboyedov – Woe from Wit (part published)
• George Hyde – Love's Victory
• James Sheridan Knowles – William Tell
• Harriet Lee – The Three Strangers
• John Poole – Paul Pry
• Alexander Pushkin – Boris Godunov (published 1831, but approved for the stage only in 1866)
• William Tennant – John Balliol
• Charles Walker – The Fall of Algiers

Poetry

• Anna Laetitia Barbauld – Works
• Felicia Hemans – The Forest Sanctuary
• Esaias Tegnér – Frithiol's Saga

Non-fiction

• Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin – Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Aids to Reflection
• George Gleig – The Subaltern
• William Hazlitt – The Spirit of the Age
• Sarah Kemble Knight – The Journal of Madam Knight
• John Claudius Loudon – The Encyclopaedia of Agriculture
• Thomas Moore – Memoirs of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Harriette Wilson – The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Written by Herself

Births

• January 11 – Bayard Taylor, American poet (died 1878)
• February 13 – Julia C. R. Dorr, American author (died 1913)
• February 18 – Mór Jókai, Hungarian novelist and dramatist (died 1904)
• March 3 – Annie Keary, English novelist, poet and children's writer (died 1879)
• March 16 – Lucy Virginia French, American author (died 1881)
• April 3 – William Billington, English poet and publican (died 1884)
• April 13 – Minnie Mary Lee, American author of poems, stories, sketches and novels (died 1903)
• April 20 – Emma Jane Guyton (Worboise), English novelist and magazine editor (died 1887)
• April 24 – R. M. Ballantyne, Scottish writer of juvenile fiction (died 1894)
• May 21 – Nancy H. Adsit, American art writer, lecturer, educator (died 1902)
• June 7 – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist (died 1900)
• June 14 – Mary Elizabeth Beauchamp, English-born American author and educator (died 1903)
• July 2 – Richard Henry Stoddard, American critic and poet (died 1903)
• July 13 – Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, American writer, translator, and anti-suffragist (died 1889)
• July 28 – E. J. Richmond, American author (died 1918)
• October 19 – Jeanette Granberg, Swedish playwright and translator (died 1857)
• October 23 – Walter Gregor, Scottish folklorist, linguist and pastor (died 1897)
• Uncertain date – Annie French Hector (pseudonym Mrs Alexander), Irish-born novelist (died 1902)

Deaths

• March 9 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, essayist and children's author (born 1743)
• April 23 – Maler Müller, German poet, dramatist and painter (born 1749)
• June 4 – Morris Birkbeck, American writer and social reformer (born 1764)
• June 11 – Helen Craik, Scottish novelist and poet (born c. 1751)
• August 10 – Joseph Harris (Gomer), Welsh poet and journalist (born 1773)
• November 7 – Charlotte Dacre, English poet and Gothic novelist (born c. 1772)
• November 25 – Desfontaines-Lavallée, French novelist and dramatist (born 1733)
• December 5 – Mary Whateley (Mary Darwall), English poet (born 1738)
• unknown dates
• Huang Peilie (黄丕烈), Chinese bibliophile (born 1763)
• Shen Fu (沈復), Chinese novelist and chronicler (born 1763)

Awards

• Chancellor's Gold Medal – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• Newdigate Prize – Richard Clarke Sewell, "The Temple of Vesta"

References