This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1831.
Events
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 La Cocarde Tricolore 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
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 James Cowles Prichard – Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations Mary Prince – The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave