1830 in literature

Events

New Books

• The Admiral and His Protégé[?] - Rosalia St. Clair[?]
• Auchindrane[?] - Sir Walter Scott
• The Barony[?] - Anna Maria Porter[?]
• Boris Godunov - Alexander Pushkin (written in 1825)
• The Corsair's Bride[?] - Louisa Stanhope[?]
• Crotchet Castle[?] - Thomas Love Peacock
• The Doom of Devorgoil[?] - Sir Walter Scott
• The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck[?] - Mary Shelley
• The King's Own[?] - Frederick Marryat
• A Mariner's Sketches[?] - Nathaniel Ames[?]
• Poems Chiefly Lyrical[?] - Alfred Tennyson
• The Red and the Black[?] - Stendhal
• A Tale of Our Times[?] - Catharine Maria Sedgwick[?]
• The Water-Witch[?] - James Fenimore Cooper

Births

• March 15 - Paul Heyse[?], writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1910 (+ 1914)
• May 20: Hector Malot[?], French writer of Without family[?] (+ 1907)
• December 5 - Christina Georgina Rossetti[?] (+ 1894) English poet
• December 10 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (+ 1886)
• December 17 - Jules de Goncourt[?], Prix Goncourt (+ 1870)

Deaths

• September 18 - William Hazlitt, British essayist

Awards