1831 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1831.

Events

January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the Liberator, an abolitionist periodical in the United States.
February 18 (old style) – Alexander Pushkin marries Natalya Goncharova at the Great Ascension Church on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow.
March 16 – Victor Hugo's historical romantic Gothic novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (completed on January 15), is published by Gosselin in Paris.
March 19 – The play The Tricolour Cockade by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "chauvinism".
April 18 – The Sydney Morning Herald is first published.
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Convict Henry Savery's autobiographical fiction Quintus Servinton: a tale founded upon incidents of real occurrence is published anonymously in Tasmania, the first Australian novel.
Playwright Manuel Bretón de los Herreros publishes a translation of Tibullus, which secures him an appointment as sub-librarian at the Spanish national library (Biblioteca Pública de Palacio).
Daniel Appleton publishes three religious books in New York City, so originating of the firm of D. Appleton & Company.

January 2 – Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Danish-born German historian (born 1776)
January 14 – Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (born 1745)
January 21 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet and novelist (heart attack, born 1781)
February 25 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German dramatist and novelist, originator of Sturm und Drang (born 1752)
April 4 – Isaiah Thomas, American publisher (born 1749)
June 30 – William Roscoe, English poet (born 1753)
September 12 – Jippensha Ikku (十返舎一九), Japanese novelist and humorist (born 1765)
October 2 – José Agostinho de Macedo, Portuguese poet (born 1761)
December 18 – Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author (born 1756)
December 26 – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Indian poet and teacher (born 1809)