1829 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1829.

Events

January 26 – The first performance of Douglas Jerrold's comic nautical melodrama Black-Eyed Susan; or, All in the Downs is held at the Surrey Theatre in Lambeth, London. It will run for a new record of well over 150 performances.
January 29 – The first complete performance of Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy, adapted by August Klingemann, in Braunschweig.
September – The narrative of George Eliot's novel Middlemarch opens.
October 29 – The English actress Fanny Kemble makes her stage debut as Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, at her father's Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.
December — John Neal publishes the final issue of The Yankee literary journal.
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*Louis Braille invents a new alphabet and embossed printing that allows the blind to read.
*The Raczyński Library in Poznań is opened to the public.

Frederick Marryat – ''The Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay''

Hans Christian Andersen – A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager
Thomas Carlyle – Signs of the Times
William Cobbett
*The English Gardener
*Advice to Young Men
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – On the Constitution of Church and State
Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 1
Washington Irving – A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
Cornelio Saavedra – Memoria autógrafa
Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon – Life of Belisarius
David Walker – ''Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America''

January 1 – Tommaso Salvini, Italian memoirist and actor
January 12 – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, née Mullins, Canadian novelist and poet
February 24 – Friedrich Spielhagen, German novelist
March 4 – Samuel Rawson Gardiner, English historian
April 24 – Luisa Cappiani, Austrian soprano, educator and essayist
April 26 – Eva Brag, Swedish poet, novelist and journalist
May 1 – José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist
June 4 – Jane Lippitt Patterson, American writer and editor
July 19 – Helen Vickroy Austin, American essayist, journalist, and horticulturist
October 31 – Emma Tatham, English poet
September 12 – Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist and novelist
September 18 – Edna Dean Proctor, American poet and author
September 25 – William Michael Rossetti, English critic
November 21 – Martha Perry Lowe, American writer and activist
December 8 – Henry Timrod, American poet