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.
New books
Fiction
- John and Michael Banim – Tales of the O'Hara Family
- Lydia Maria Child – The Rebels
- Sarah Green – Parents and Wives
- Wilhelm Hauff – Der Mann im Mond
- Barbara Hofland – Moderation
- Charles Maturin – Leixlip Castle
- John Neal – Brother Jonathan: or, the New Englanders
- Lord Normanby – Matilda
- Sir Walter Scott – Tales of the Crusaders:
- *The Betrothed
- *''The Talisman''
Children
- Maria Hack – ''English Stories. Third Series, Reformation under the Tudor Princes''
Drama
- Caroline Boaden – Quite Correct
- Aleksander Griboyedov – Woe from Wit
- George Hyde – Love's Victory
- James Sheridan Knowles – William Tell
- Harriet Lee – The Three Strangers
- John Poole – Paul Pry
- Alexander Pushkin – Boris Godunov
- William Tennant – John Balliol
- Charles Walker – ''The Fall of Algiers''
Poetry
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld – Works
- Felicia Hemans – The Forest Sanctuary
- Esaias Tegnér – ''Frithiol's Saga''
Non-fiction
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin – Physiologie du goût
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Aids to Reflection
- George Gleig – The Subaltern
- William Hazlitt – The Spirit of the Age
- Sarah Kemble Knight – The Journal of Madam Knight
- John Claudius Loudon – The Encyclopaedia of Agriculture
- Thomas Moore – Memoirs of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Harriette Wilson – ''The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Written by Herself''
Births
- 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
Deaths
- March 9 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, essayist and children's author
- April 23 – Maler Müller, German poet, dramatist and painter
- June 4 – Morris Birkbeck, American writer and social reformer
- June 11 – Helen Craik, Scottish novelist and poet
- August 10 – Joseph Harris (Gomer), Welsh poet and journalist
- November 7 – Charlotte Dacre, English poet and Gothic novelist
- November 25 – Desfontaines-Lavallée, French novelist and dramatist
- December 5 – Mary Whateley, English poet
- unknown dates
- *Huang Peilie, Chinese bibliophile
- *Shen Fu, Chinese novelist and chronicler
Awards
- Chancellor's Gold Medal – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Newdigate Prize – Richard Clarke Sewell, "The Temple of Vesta"