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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1827.

Events

• January – Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin begins his diary, later published as Cín Lae Amhlaoibh.^[1]
• February – Thomas De Quincey's essay On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts is published in Blackwood's Magazine.
• February 23 – Sir Walter Scott's authorship of the Waverley Novels is first publicly acknowledged at an Edinburgh Theatrical Fund dinner.^[2]
• April 16 (weekly from June 6) – Nathaniel Willis Senior begins publishing a new magazine for children, The Youth's Companion, in Boston, Massachusetts. One of the most enduring of its type, the magazine continues until 1929.
• October 14 – Ludwig Tieck's Potsdam production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first to feature the incidental musical score composed by Felix Mendelssohn.
• Samuel Griswold Goodrich publishes the first of the "Peter Parley" juvenile books in the United States that will continue until 1860.
• Thomas Skinner Sturr's anonymous Richmond, or stories in the life of a Bow Street officer, the earliest collection of detective stories, is published in London by Henry Colburn.
• Swedish theatre director Johan Peter Strömberg opens what will become the Christiania Theatre in Norway.
• John James Audubon begins publication of the 10-volume The Birds of America in the United Kingdom.

New books

Fiction

• James Fenimore Cooper
  • The Prairie
  • The Red Rover
• Benjamin Disraeli – Vivian Grey, vol. 2
• Thomas Gaspey – Richmond
• Émile de Girardin – Émile
• Catherine Gore
  • The Lettre de Cachet
  • The Reign of Terror
• Sarah Josepha Hale – Northwood: Life North and South (U.K. title: A New England Tale)
• Wilhelm Hauff
  • Jud Süß
  • Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller ("The Wine-Ghosts of Bremen")
• Christian Isobel Johnstone – Elizabeth de Bruce
• Sir Thomas Dick Lauder – The Wolf of Badenoch
• Jane Webb (anonymously) – The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century
• Alessandro Manzoni – I Promessi sposi (The Betrothed)
• Sydney, Lady Morgan – The O'Briens and The O'Flaherties
• Karoline Pichler – Die Schweden in Prag ("The Swedes in Prague")
• Sir Walter Scott – Chronicles of the Canongate
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick – Hope Leslie
• Horatio Smith – Reuben Aspley

Children

Agnes Strickland – The Juvenile Forget Me Not; Or, Cabinet of Entertainment and Instruction

Non-fiction

• Elizabeth Beverley – Veluti in speculum (letters on church singing, theater management, elocution etc.)
• Encyclopædia Edinensis
• Henry Hallam – The Constitutional History of England
• William Macmichael – The Gold-Headed Cane
• Lady Louisa Stuart – Memoir of Lady Mary Coke

New drama

• John Baldwin Buckstone – Luke the Labourer
• Christian Dietrich Grabbe – Herzog Theodor von Gotland
• Victor Hugo – Cromwell

Poetry

• Fitz-Greene Halleck – Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems
• Heinrich Heine – Buch der Lieder ("Book of Songs")
• John Keble – The Christian Year
• Giacomo Leopardi – Operette Morali
• Robert Pollok – The Course of Time
• Edgar Allan Poe (as "A Bostonian") – Tamerlane and Other Poems (his first poetry collection)
• Alfred and Charles Tennyson – Poems by Two Brothers

Births

• February 22 – Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, Bengali writer and philosopher (died 1894)
• March 4 – Henrietta Keddie (Sarah Tytler), Scottish novelist and children's writer (died 1914)
• March 25 – Edward Bradley, English novelist and cleric (died 1889)
• April 10 – Lew Wallace, American soldier, politician and novelist (died 1905)
• April 16 – Octave Crémazie, "the father of French Canadian poetry" (died 1879)
• June 12 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss children's author (died 1901)
• September 13 – Catherine Winkworth, English translator and hymnist (died 1878)
• September 18 – John Townsend Trowbridge, American author (died 1916)

Deaths

• February 18 – Joseph Heinrich Aloysius Gügler, Swiss philosopher and theologian (born 1782)
• May 28 – William James, English naval historian (born 1780)
• July 3 – David Davis (Castellhywel), Welsh minister and poet (born 1745)
• July 22 – Ludwig Heinrich von Jakob, German economist (born 1759)
• August 12 – William Blake, English poet and artist (born 1757)
• September 15 – Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (born c. 1798)
• October 10 – Ugo Foscolo, Greek-born Italian dramatist and poet (born 1778)
• November – Alethea Lewis, English novelist (born 1749)
• November 18 – Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and novelist (born 1802)
• December 26 – Feliks Jarońskij, Polish philosopher (born 1777)

Awards

• Newdigate Prize – Robert Stephen Hawker

In literature

• May 12 – Establishment of the Pickwick Club, according to Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers (1836).

References

1. "O'Sullivan, Humphrey_1780-1837_Irish_teacher, tradesman". The Diary Junction. PiKLe. July 2008. Retrieved 2013-04-06.
2. "Walter Scott – Chronology". The Walter Scott Digital Archive. Edinburgh University Library. 2008-10-13. Retrieved 2013-04-06.