1831 in literature
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See also: 1830 in literature, other events of 1831, 1832 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "chauvinism."

New Books

• Gerald Fitzgerald - Anne Hatton
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
• The Last of the Lyals - Rosalia St. Clair
• The Queen's Page - Selina Davenport
• The Spirit of the Age - John Stuart Mill
• The Tuileries - Catherine Gore
• The Young Duke - Benjamin Disraeli

Births

• January 26 - Mary Mapes Dodged, writer (+ 1907)
• October 15 - Helen Hunt Jackson, writer-activist (+ 1885)

Deaths

• June 30 - William Roscoe, English poet
• December 18 - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author

Awards

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