This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1830.
Events
February – Barthold Georg Niebuhr's house burns down, but most of his books are saved. February 25 – The première of Victor Hugo's play Hernani in Paris elicits protests from an audience seeing it as an attack on Classicism. March 26 – The Book of Mormon is published by Joseph Smith in Palmyra, New York. May 22 – Amos Bronson Alcott marries Abby May at King's Chapel, Boston (Massachusetts). May 24 – Sarah Josepha Hale's Poems for Our Children, including "Mary's Lamb", with the verse "Mary Had a Little Lamb", is published by Marsh, Capen & Lyon in Boston, Massachusetts. July or later – Victor Cousin is elected to the Académie française to replace Joseph Fourier. July 1 – Edgar Allan Poe matriculates as a cadet at the United States Military Academy, West Point. August – François-René de Chateaubriand sacrifices his political career by refusing to swear an oath of allegiance to Louis-Philippe, and retires to write his memoirs. August 25 – Belgian Revolution breaks out; Flemish novelist Hendrik Conscience takes the side of the revolutionaries. December – Elizabeth Vestris becomes the first female actor-manager in the history of London theatre by leasing the Olympic Theatre in Drury Lane where she presents extravaganzas and burlesques. unknown dates James Mill becomes head of the London office of the British East India Company. The English publishers Bradbury and Evans are established as printers by William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans. Edward Moxon begins his own publishing business in London. The famous opening line of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's (anonymous) novel, Paul Clifford, published this year, begins: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
New books
Fiction
Honoré de Balzac
La Maison du chat-qui-pelote
La Vendetta
Le Bal de Sceaux
Gobseck
Lady Charlotte Bury
The Exclusives
The Separation
Edward Bulwer-Lytton – Paul Clifford
James Fenimore Cooper – The Water-Witch
Nikolai Gogol - St. John's Eve
Catherine Gore – Women as They Are
Thomas Colley Grattan – The Heiress of Bruges
Oliver Wendell Holmes – Old Ironsides
John Neal — Authorship, a Tale
Thomas Love Peacock – Crotchet Castle
Anna Maria Porter – The Barony
Catharine Maria Sedgwick – A Tale of Our Times
Mary Shelley – The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
Horace Smith – Walter Colyton
Louisa Stanhope – The Corsair's Bride
Stendhal – The Red and the Black (Le Rouge et le Noir) Princess Victoria – The Adventures of Alice Laselles (first published 2015)
Children
Frederick Marryat – The King's Own
Anna Maria Hall – Chronicles of a School-Room
Drama
Henrik Hertz – Amor's Strokes of Genius (Amors Genistreger) Douglas William Jerrold – The Mutiny at the Nore Jovan Sterija Popović – Laža i Paralaža Aleksandr Pushkin – Little Tragedies (Маленькие трагедии, Malenkie tragedii) The Stone Guest (Каменный гость, Kamenny gost) Mozart and Salieri (Моцарт и Сальери, Mozart i Salieri) The Miserly Knight (Скупой рыцарь, Skupoy rytsar) A Feast in Time of Plague (Пир во время чумы, Pir vo vremya chumy) Sir Walter Scott (published, never performed) Auchindrane The Doom of Devorgoil
Poetry
Alphonse de Lamartine – Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
Richard Lower – Tom Cladpole's Jurney to Lunnon, told by himself, and written in pure Sussex doggerel by his Uncle Tim Alfred de Musset – Comtes d'Espagne et d'Italie Caroline Norton – The Undying One and Other Poems (includes "The Arab's Farewell to His Horse") Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve – Les Consolations Alfred Tennyson – Poems, Chiefly Lyrical