1825 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1825.

Events

February 19 – Franz Grillparzer's König Ottokars Glück und Ende is first performed, at the Burgtheater in Vienna, after Caroline Augusta, Empress of Austria, urges her husband Francis I of Austria to lift the censorship restrictions on it.
April – Charles Lamb retires from his clerical post with the East India Company in London on superannuation.
May 6–June 15 – The two youngest Brontë sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, die at home at Haworth Parsonage aged 11 and 9, of consumption they have contracted at Cowan Bridge School.
May 6 – French bibliophile, translator, lawyer and politician Henri Boulard dies, leaving a library of over half a million books, one of the greatest private book collections in history.
December 17 – John Neal moves in with and becomes personal secretary of Jeremy Bentham, who recruits Neal to his utilitarian philosophy.
unknown date – The first publication of Samuel Pepys' Diary appears, edited by Lord Braybrooke from a transcription by Rev. John Smith.

Maria Hack – ''English Stories. Third Series, Reformation under the Tudor Princes''

January 11 – Bayard Taylor, American poet
February 13 – Julia C. R. Dorr, American author
February 18 – Mór Jókai, Hungarian novelist and dramatist
March 3 – Annie Keary, English novelist, poet and children's writer
March 16 – Lucy Virginia French, American author
April 3 – William Billington, English poet and publican
April 13 – Minnie Mary Lee, American author of poems, stories, sketches and novels
April 20 – Emma Jane Guyton, English novelist and magazine editor
April 24 – R. M. Ballantyne, Scottish writer of juvenile fiction
May 21 – Nancy H. Adsit, American art writer, lecturer, educator
June 7 – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist
June 14 – Mary Elizabeth Beauchamp, English-born American author and educator
July 2 – Richard Henry Stoddard, American critic and poet
July 13 – Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, American writer, translator, and anti-suffragist
July 28 – E. J. Richmond, American author
October 19 – Jeanette Granberg, Swedish playwright and translator
October 23 – Walter Gregor, Scottish folklorist, linguist and pastor
Uncertain date – Annie French Hector, Irish-born novelist