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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1826.

Events

  • Early months – Aftermath of the Decembrist revolt in the Russian Empire. Michael Lunin, though not involved in the Decembrist conspiracy, is arrested and deported to Siberia, which allows him to begin his work as a philosopher.[1] Adam Mickiewicz, deported from Congress Poland for his involvement with Filaret Association, is moved from Taurida Governorate to Moscow. Here, he publishes his Sonety krymskie (The Crimean Sonnets). Later in the year, he befriends Russian writers, including Yevgeny Baratynsky, Mikhail Pogodin, Alexander Pushkin, and the Lyubomudry.[2] Pushkin, himself returning from political exile, still writes poems discreetly honoring the Decembrists. They include Stansy (Stanzas), as well as odes to Nikolay Mordvinov and Ivan Pushchin.[3]
  • c. January – Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa, pained by his recent divorce, enters his final creative period with hokku expressing his solitude and, at times, nihilistic thoughts.[4]
  • January 15 – The French newspaper Le Figaro begins publication in Paris. In this first edition, it is a satirical weekly, reflecting the preoccupation of its two founders, Maurice Alhoy and Étienne Arago.[5]
  • January 17 – The Ballantyne printing business in Edinburgh crashes, ruining Sir Walter Scott as a principal investor. He undertakes to repay his creditors from his writings, although his publisher Archibald Constable also fails. Distress caused by the events contributes to the illness afflicting Scott's wife, Lady Charlotte; she dies in May.[6]
  • February 4 – In the Mexican Republic, lithographer Claudio Linati inaugurates El Iris, a "pocket sized" bi-weekly. It is in print until August 2, when its popularization of liberal ideas prompts the intervention of state censors; Linati leaves Mexico later in 1826, probably for political reasons.[7]
  • February 6
  • February 16 (O. S.: February 4) – Hungarian Serbs gather at Pest to set up Matica srpska, a cultural society dedicated to promoting the works of Serb writers. It sponsors Georgije Magarašević's Serbski Letopis, which remained "one of Europe's oldest, regularly published journals."[11]
  • March – Aged eight, the future orator and memoirist Frederick Douglass is lent by his master to the Aulds of Fell's Point, Baltimore. He will remain their house servant, and later their regular slave, until 1838, when he escapes via the Underground Railroad.[12]
    • April – Andrés Bello launches his London magazine Repertorio Americano, in which he publishes the final installment of his Las Silvas Americanas, known as Silva a la agricultura de la zona tórrida (Silva for Agriculture in the Torrid Zone).[13] It is sometimes described as a final masterpiece of Neoclassicism in Latin American literature.[14]
  • April 16 – Thomas Pringle, a founding figure of South African literature, embarks on his return trip to England. His stay in the Cape Colony leads him to join and publicize for the Anti-Slavery Society.[15]
  • May 18 – At Buda, Habsburg Hungary, Wallachian intellectual Dinicu Golescu receives imprimatur for his Însemnare a călătoriei mele (Accounts of My Travels).[16] This pioneering travelog covers extensive trips in Central and Western Europe, which Golescu had begun in 1824. The author documents his own "amazed 'discovery' of the West [and] acceptance of his country's admitted inferiority."[17] As a "manifesto for the new culture" Însemnare promotes Wallachia's passage into the Age of Enlightenment. For the same purpose Golescu sponsors a school on his estate.[18]
  • June – Despite having maintained links with the Decembrists, poet Alexander Griboyedov receives a "certificate of loyalism" from the Russian government.[19]
Commemorative plaque for the executed Decembrists at their execution site
  • July 25 (O.S.: July 13) – Five Decembrist leaders, including poet Kondraty Ryleyev, are hanged in Senate Square, Saint Petersburg. Pushkin's papers of the time include a drawing of five silhouettes on a scaffold, with the words: "Me too, I could be...".[20]
  • August 19 – Louis Christophe François Hachette purchases Brédif bookshop on rue Pierre-Sarrazin, Paris. This becomes the first asset owned by Hachette publishing company.[21]
  • September – The first issue of Lydia Maria Child's The Juvenile Miscellany, a magazine for children, is published in Boston. Becoming "so popular that children used to sit on their doorsteps waiting for the mail carrier to deliver it," it lasts until 1834.[22]
  • October – Tyrone Power gets his break as a principal Irish character actor at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.[23]
  • October 17 – Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh marry in Templand.[24]
  • November
    • Hungarian philologist Sándor Kőrösi Csoma ends his stay at Teta, on the outskirts of Phugtal Monastery in Ladakh.[25]
    • The London Missionary Society sets up the first printing press in Madagascar (Merina Kingdom). It survives to 1836, being ultimately shut down for political reasons.[26]
  • December – At Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Henry Schoolcraft sets up a review called Literary Voyager, or Muzzeniegan. It includes poems and stories by his part-Ojibwe wife, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who thus becomes one of the first Native American literary professionals.[27]
  • December 5 (O. S.: November 23) – From his boarding school in Nezhin, Chernigov Governorate, Nikolai Gogol writes home to his mother, describing a "radical new change" in his poetic style. Only two pieces he wrote during this period have survived for posterity.[28]
  • c. December 25 – Edgar Allan Poe is forced to renounce his studies at the University of Virginia when his foster parent John Allan refuses to pay for his tuition.[29]
  • unknown dates
    • Almeida Garrett issues the poetry anthology Parnaso lusitano (Lusitanian Parnassus), which is both a milestone of Romanticism in Lusophone countries and a cause for debates regarding the emergence of a distinct Brazilian literature.[30] The latter issue is also explored by French historian Jean-Ferdinand Denis, who includes an epilogue on "Brazil's literary history" to his Portuguese literature tract.[31]
    • Robert Morrison, missionary and Bible translator, returns from Malacca to England "with 10,000 Chinese books."[32]
    • Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, who puts out the Mélanges Asiatiques collection, publishes his translation of a Chinese classic: Iu-Kiao-Li, ou Les Deux Cousines.[33]
    • Francesco Vella puts out a translation of Francesco Soave's Trattato elementare dei doveri dell'uomo (Trattat fuk l'Oblighi tal-Bniedem tal-Patri F. Soave), as a textbook for Gozo College Boys' Secondary School. It is one of the first prose works published in the Maltese language.[34]

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

  • Wilhelm Hauff – Märchen Almanach auf das Jahr 1826 (Almanac of Fairy Tales from the Year 1826)
  • Rosalia St. Clair – Obstinacy
  • Agnes Strickland
    • The Rival Crusoes, or, The Shipwreck
    • A Voyage to Norway
    • The Fisherman's Cottage: Founded on Facts
    • The Young Emigrant

Drama

Poetry

  • Almeida Garrett (editor) – Parnaso lusitano (Lusitanian Parnassus)
  • Yevgeny Baratynsky – "Eda"
  • Andrés Bello – Silva a la agricultura de la zona tórrida (Silva for Agriculture in the Torrid Zone)
  • Alfred de Vigny – Poèmes antiques et modernes (Poems Ancient and Modern)
  • Ivan Gundulić – Osman (posthumous)
  • Heinrich Heine – Die Harzreise (The Harz Journey)
  • Felicia Dorothea Hemans – "Casabianca"
  • Robert Hetrick – Poems and Songs of Robert Hetrick
  • Andreas Kalvos – Odes nouvelles (New Odes)
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon – "Erinna"
  • William Leggett – Journals of the Ocean
  • Adam Mickiewicz – Sonety krymskie (The Crimean Sonnets)
  • Alexander Pushkin
    • I. I. Pushchinu (To I. I. Pushchin)
    • Morvinovu (To Mordvin)
    • Stansy (Stanzas)
  • Charles Tompson – Wild Notes, from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel
  • Samuel Woodworth – "The Hunters of Kentucky"

Non-fiction

Title page of Însemnare a călătoriei mele in the original Cyrillic print
  • Burke's Landed Gentry
  • Ioan Alexi – Grammatica dacoromana sive valachica (Dacoromanian or Wallachian Grammar)
  • Elias Boudinot – "An Address to the Whites"
  • Giacomo Casanova – Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life, posthumous; first authentic edition)
  • Victor Collot – Voyage dans l'Amérique Septentrionale (A Journey in North America, posthumous)
  • Jean-Ferdinand Denis – Résumé de l'histoire littéraire du Portugal, suivi du résumé de l'histoire littéraire du Brésil (A Review of Portugal's Literary History, Followed by a Review of Brazil's Literary History)
  • William Erskine – Memoirs of Babar (translation of Baburnama)
  • Dinicu Golescu – Însemnare a călătoriei mele (Accounts of My Travel)
  • Wilhelm Hauff – Kontroverspredigt über H. Clauren und den Mann im Mond (Polemical Sermon on H. Clauren)
  • William Hazlitt – "Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen"
  • Dietrich Georg von Kieser – System des Tellurismus oder thierisches Magnetismus (System of Tellurism or Animal Magnetism)
  • Ferenc Kölcsey – Mohács
  • Robert Morrison – A Parting Memorial, consisting of Miscellaneous Discources
  • Abigail Mott – Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color
  • Josiah Priest – The Wonders of Nature
  • Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová – Domácí kuchařka (A Household Cookery Book)
  • Pavel Jozef Šafárik – Geschichte der slawischen Sprache und Literatur nach allen Mundarten (History of Slavic Language and Literature in All Vernaculars)
  • Dovber Schneuri – Toras Chaim
  • David Strauss, translated by George Eliot – The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined
  • Francesco Vella – Trattat fuk l'Oblighi tal-Bniedem tal-Patri F. Soave (Treaty on the Duties of Man by Father F. Soave)

Births

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Unknown dates

  • David ben Shimon, Moroccan Jewish theologian (died 1879)
  • Thomas Chenery, Barbadian-born English scholar and editor (died 1884)
  • Wali Dewane, Kurdish-Ottoman poet (died 1881)
  • Liautaud Ethéart, Haitian playwright and essayist (died 1888)
  • Henry George Keene, English and Indian historian (died 1915)
  • Mary Eva Kelly, Irish-born Australian poet (died 1910)[39]
  • Manol Lazarov, Bulgarian essayist and poet (died 1881)
  • Bedros Magakyan, Ottoman-Armenian actor and theater director (died 1891)
  • Frank Marryat, English memoirist and travel writer (died 1855)[40]
  • Augustus Mayhew, English journalist, humorist and theatrical producer (died 1875)[41]
  • Mishkín-Qalam, Persian calligrapher and Bahá'í mystic (died 1912)
  • Tasos Neroutsos, Greek-born historian and language reformer (died 1892)
  • John Sands, Scottish journalist, humorist and travel writer (died 1900)
  • M. A. Sherring, English ethnologist and historian (died 1880)[42]
  • Eliza Sproat Turner, American journalist and publisher (died 1903)[43]
  • Fyodor Stellovsky, Russian publisher and editor (died 1875)
  • Adèle Toussaint-Samson, French travel writer (died 1911)[44]
  • Probable year of birth – Selim Aga, Sudanese-Liberian autobiographer and poet (died 1875)

Deaths

January–June

July–December

Grave of Thomas Jefferson, at Monticello

Unknown dates

  • Jacob ben Abraham Kahana, Lithuanian Jewish theologian (year of birth unknown)[45]
  • Menachem Mendel Lefin, Podolian Jewish theologian, translator and essayist (born 1749)
  • Caroline Lewenhaupt, Swedish courtier and poet (born 1754)
  • Mustafa Râkim, Ottoman calligrapher (born 1757)[46]
  • Léonard Tousez, French actor and playwright (born 1788)

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