1831 in literature

• January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the Liberator, an abolitionist periodical in the United States. • February 18 (old style) – Alexander Pushkin marries Natalya Goncharova at the Great Ascension Church on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow. • March 16 – Victor Hugo's historical romantic Gothic novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (completed on January 15), is published by Gosselin in Paris. • March 19 – The play The Tricolour Cockade by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "chauvinism". • April 18 – The Sydney Morning Herald is first published. • unknown dates • Convict Henry Savery's autobiographical fiction Quintus Servinton: a tale founded upon incidents of real occurrence is published anonymously in Tasmania, the first Australian novel. • Playwright Manuel Bretón de los Herreros publishes a translation of Tibullus, which secures him an appointment as sub-librarian at the Spanish national library (Biblioteca Pública de Palacio). • Daniel Appleton publishes three religious books in New York City, so originating of the firm of D. Appleton & Company. ==New books==

Fiction • Honoré de Balzac • La Peau de chagrin • Sarrasine • ''Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu'' • John Brownlow – Hans Sloane: a tale • Cogniard Brothers – The Tricolour Cockade • Selina Davenport – ''The Queen's Page'' • Benjamin Disraeli – The Young Duke • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier – Destiny • Nikolai Gogol – Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka • Catherine Gore • Mothers and Daughters • Pin Money • The Tuileries • Thomas Colley Grattan – Jacqueline of Holland • Ann Hatton – Gerald Fitzgerald • Victor Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris) • Thomas Love Peacock – Crotchet Castle • George Sand (as Amantine Aurore Dupin) and Jules Sandeau (as J. Sand) – Rose et Blanche • Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (revised 1-volume edition) Children • Anne Knight – Mary Gray. A tale for little girls Drama • Robert Montgomery Bird – Gladiator • Manuel Bretón de los Herreros – Marcela o ¿Cuál de las tres? • Dulduityn Danzanravjaa – Saran khökhöö (Moon Cuckoo; approximate year) • Alfred de Vigny – ''La Maréchale d'Ancre'' • Catherine Gore – The School for Coquettes • Franz Grillparzer – Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen (Waves of the Sea and of Love) • Victor Hugo – Marion Delorme • James Kenney – The Pledge • James Sheridan Knowles – Alfred the Great • Alexander Pushkin – Boris Godunov (Борис Годунов, published) • John Augustus Stone – Tancred, King of Sicily • Robert Taylor – Swing, or, Who Are the Incendiaries? Poetry • Thomas Hood – The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer • Giacomo Leopardi – Canti • Edgar Allan Poe – Poems Non-fiction • Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet – The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences • Washington Irving – Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus • John Stuart Mill – The Spirit of the Age • Thomas Moore – The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald • James Cowles Prichard – Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations • Mary Prince – The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave ==Births==

• January 2 – Justin Winsor, American historian and librarian (died 1897) • January 3 – George Manville Fenn, English novelist and educationalist (died 1909) • January 14 – John Cordy Jeaffreson, English novelist and non-fiction writer (died 1901) • February 25 – Jane G. Austin, American writer (died 1894) • January 26 – Mary Mapes Dodge, American children's writer (died 1907) • February 16 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian novelist and playwright (died 1895) • March 29 – Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, English novelist and teacher (died 1919) • April 9 – Clara Harrison Stranahan, American author and college founder (died 1905) • April 19 – Mary Louise Booth, American writer, editor, and translator (died 1889) • May 6 – Mary C. Ames, American writer (died 1884) • June 7 – Amelia Edwards, English fiction writer and Egyptologist (died 1892) • June 25 – Harriet Mann Miller, American author, naturalist, and ornithologist (died 1918) • July 3 – Edmund Yates, Scottish writer (died 1894) • July 5 – Cordelia A. Greene, American physician, reformer, benefactor (died 1905) • July 7 – Jane Elizabeth Conklin, American religious writer and poet (died 1914) • August 1 – William Aldis Wright, English writer and literary editor (died 1914) • September 5 – Victorien Sardou, French dramatist (died 1908) • September 12 – Álvares de Azevedo, Brazilian Ultra-Romantic writer (died 1852) • October 7 – Eleanor Kirk, American writer (died 1908) • October 15 – Helen Hunt Jackson, American poet, writer and activist (died 1885) • October 19 – Fanny Murdaugh Downing, American author and poet (died 1894) • unknown date – Nora Perry, American writer (died 1896) ==Deaths==

• January 2 – Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Danish-born German historian (born 1776) • January 14 – Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (born 1745) • January 21 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet and novelist (heart attack, born 1781) • February 25 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German dramatist and novelist, originator of Sturm und Drang (born 1752) • April 4 – Isaiah Thomas, American publisher (born 1749) • June 30 – William Roscoe, English poet (born 1753) • September 12 – Jippensha Ikku (十返舎 一九), Japanese novelist and humorist (born 1765) • October 2 – José Agostinho de Macedo, Portuguese poet (born 1761) • December 18 – Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author (born 1756) • December 26 – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Indian poet and teacher (born 1809) ==Awards==

• Chancellor's Gold Medal – George Stovin Venables ==References==