This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1831.
Events
New books
Fiction
Children
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- January 2 â Justin Winsor, American historian and librarian (died 1897)
- January 3 â George Manville Fenn, English novelist and educationalist (died 1909)
- January 14 â John Cordy Jeaffreson, English novelist and non-fiction writer (died 1901)
- February 25 â Jane G. Austin, American writer (died 1894)
- January 26 â Mary Mapes Dodge, American children's writer (died 1907)
- February 16 â Nikolai Leskov, Russian novelist and playwright (died 1895)
- March 29 â Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, English novelist and teacher (died 1919)
- April 9 â Clara Harrison Stranahan, American author and college founder (died 1905)
- April 19 â Mary Louise Booth, American writer, editor, and translator (died 1889)
- May 6 â Mary C. Ames, American writer (died 1884)
- June 7 â Amelia Edwards, English fiction writer and Egyptologist (died 1892)
- June 25 â Harriet Mann Miller, American author, naturalist, and ornithologist (died 1918)
- July 3 â Edmund Yates, Scottish writer (died 1894)
- July 5 â Cordelia A. Greene, American physician, reformer, benefactor (died 1905)
- July 7 â Jane Elizabeth Conklin, American religious writer and poet (died 1914)
- August 1 â William Aldis Wright, English writer and literary editor (died 1914)
- September 5 â Victorien Sardou, French dramatist (died 1908)
- September 12 â ÃÂlvares de Azevedo, Brazilian Ultra-Romantic writer (died 1852)
- October 7 â Eleanor Kirk, American writer (died 1908)
- October 15 â Helen Hunt Jackson, American poet, writer and activist (died 1885)
- October 19 â Fanny Murdaugh Downing, American author and poet (died 1894)
- unknown date â Nora Perry, American writer (died 1896)
Deaths
- January 2 â Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Danish-born German historian (born 1776)
- January 14 â Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (born 1745)
- January 21 â Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet and novelist (heart attack, born 1781)
- February 25 â Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German dramatist and novelist, originator of Sturm und Drang (born 1752)
- April 4 â Isaiah Thomas, American publisher (born 1749)
- June 30 â William Roscoe, English poet (born 1753)
- September 12 â Jippensha Ikku (Ã¥ÂÂè¿Âè ä¸Âä¹Â), Japanese novelist and humorist (born 1765)
- October 2 â José Agostinho de Macedo, Portuguese poet (born 1761)
- December 18 â Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author (born 1756)
- December 26 â Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Indian poet and teacher (born 1809)
Awards
References