1837 in literature
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Events
- The Little, Brown publishing house opens its doors.
New Books
- The Admirable Crichton - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Cesar Birotteau - Honoré de Balzac
- Falkner - Mary Shelley
- The French Revolution, A History - Thomas Carlyle
- Henrietta Temple - Benjamin Disraeli
- Live and Let Live - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
- Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
- Nick of the Woods - Robert Montgomery Bird
- Only a Fiddler - Hans Christian Andersen
- Snarleyyow - Frederick Marryat
- Society in America - Harriet Martineau
- Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Venetia - Benjamin Disraeli
Births
- March 1 - William Dean Howells, writer (+ 1920)
- March 6 - Sully Prudhomme, poet (+ 1907)
- April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (+ 1909)
Deaths
- January 29 - Alexander Pushkin, author
