This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1832.
Events
February 4 – Chambers's Edinburgh Journal is established by William Chambers. March 31 – Tait's Edinburgh Magazine is established by William Tait. May 21 – Washington Irving returns to the United States after living in Europe for seventeen years. September 21 – Scottish historical novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott dies aged 61 at his home, Abbotsford House, leaving his novel The Siege of Malta unfinished; he is buried in the grounds of Dryburgh Abbey with Presbyterian and Episcopalian ministers in attendance. His novels Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous are published this year. On the same day, English poet and novelist Anna Maria Porter dies of typhus in Bristol aged 53. December (or January 1833) – Richard Bentley (publisher), having purchased the remaining copyrights to all of Jane Austen's novels from her sister Cassandra, begins to return them to print (for the first time since 1820) in five illustrated volumes as part of his Standard Novels series. Uncertain dates William Ticknor co-founds the publishing house that will become Ticknor and Fields, a predecessor of Houghton Mifflin, in Boston, Massachusetts. James Atkinson makes the first translation from Persian into English of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, The Sha Nameh of the Persian Poet Firdausi, translated and abridged in prose and verse with notes and illustrations; printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; sold by John Murray. The first Baedeker guidebook, Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne, by Karl Baedeker in Koblenz (his adaptation of J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln of 1828) is published without a date. Ramón de Mesonero Romanos (as 'El Curioso Parlante') begins writing his series of Escenas matritenses (Madrid scenes), originally in Cartas españolas. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy is published. Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques opened on the site of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris under Frédérick Lemaître. The early 13th century Færeyinga saga, written in Iceland, is first published. Publishers begin the use of a paper jacket to wrap book covers. Polish scholar Konstanty Swidzinski discovers a 15th-century Bible page called the Karta medycka in the Polish village of Medyka
New books
Fiction
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (anonymous) – Jaktslottet (first in the Törnrosens bok (Book of the Briar Rose) series) Honoré de Balzac La Bourse Le Curé de Tours Le Colonel Chabert Louis Lambert Edward Bulwer-Lytton – Eugene Aram Selina Davenport – The Unchanged Alfred de Vigny – Stello Benjamin Disraeli – Contarini Fleming Catherine Gore The Fair of Mayfair The Opera Robert Huish – Fitzallan Washington Irving – Tales of the Alhambra Letitia Elizabeth Landon - Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833 Frederick Marryat – Newton Forster Lord Normanby – The Contrast Alexander Pushkin – Dubrovsky Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve – Volupte Rosalia St. Clair – The Doomed One George Sand Indiana Valentine Sir Walter Scott Castle Dangerous Count Robert of Paris Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna – Combination
Children
Frederick Marryat – Newton Forster
Catherine Sinclair – Charlie Seymour, or, The Good Aunt and the Bad Aunt
Drama
John Baldwin Buckstone – Henriette the Forsaken
Casimir Delavigne – Louis XI
Alfred de Vigny – Stello
Aleksander Fredro – Pan Jowialski (Mr. Jovial) Victor Hugo – Le Roi s'amuse Douglas William Jerrold The Bride of Ludgate The Factory Girl The Rent Day Fanny Kemble – Francis the First James Sheridan Knowles – The Hunchback Li Qianfu (李潛夫), translated by Stanislas Julien – Le Cercle de craie (Circle of Chalk; ; 14th century) Thomas Serle The House of Colberg The Merchant of London
Poetry
Leigh Hunt – Poetical Works
Adam Mickiewicz – Dziady (Forefathers' Eve, poetic drama, part III) Aleksandr Pushkin – Eugene Onegin («Евге́ний Оне́гин», serial publication completed)
Non-fiction
John Austin -The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
Carl von Clausewitz (posthumously) – Vom Krieg (On War) William Sawrey Gilpin – Practical Hints upon Landscape Gardening: with some remarks on Domestic Architecture, as connected with scenery Anna Brownell Jameson – Characteristics of Women Lord Mahon – History of the War of Succession in Spain Frances Trollope – Domestic Manners of the Americans
