1837 in literature

Events

• The Little, Brown[?] publishing house opens its doors.

New Books

• The Admirable Crichton[?] - William Harrison Ainsworth
• Cesar Birotteau[?] - Honore de Balzac
• Falkner[?] - Mary Shelley
• The French Revolution, A History[?] - Thomas Carlyle
• Henrietta Temple[?] - Benjamin Disraeli
• Live and Let Live[?] - Catharine Maria Sedgwick[?]
• Lost Illusions[?] - Honore de Balzac
• Nick of the Woods[?] - Robert Montgomery Bird[?]
• Only a Fiddler[?] - Hans Christian Andersen
• Snarleyyow[?] - Frederick Marryat
• Society in America[?] - Harriet Martineau
• Twice Told Tales[?] - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Venetia[?] - Benjamin Disraeli

Births

• March 1 - William Dean Howells, writer (+ 1920)
• March 6 - Sully Prudhomme, poet (+ 1907)
• April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (+ 1909)

Deaths

• January 29 - Alexander Pushkin, author

Awards