1832 in literature
See also: 1831 in literature, other events of 1832, 1833 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- The Houghton Mifflin publishing house founded in Boston, Massachusetts
- Publishers begin the use of a paper jacket to wrap book covers
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe completes Faust
New books
- Castle Dangerous - Sir Walter Scott
- Combination - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
- Contarini Fleming - Benjamin Disraeli
- Count Robert of Paris - Sir Walter Scott
- The Doomed One - Rosalia St. Clair
- Eugene Aram - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
- The Fair of Mayfair - Catherine Gore
- Fitzallan - Robert Huish
- Indiana - George Sand
- Legend of the Moor's Legacy - Washington Irving
- Nautical Reminiscences - Nathaniel Ames
- Newton Forster - Frederick Marryat
- The Opera - Catherine Gore
- The Unchanged - Selina Davenport
- Valentine - George Sand
- Volupte - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Births
- January 13 - Horatio Alger, Jr., writer (+ 1899)
- January 27 - Lewis Carroll, author (+ 1898)
- June 11 – Jules Vallés, writer (+ 1885)
- November 29 - Louisa May Alcott, author (+ 1888)
- Hesba Stretton, English children's author (+ 1911)
Deaths
- March 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer and poet
- September 21 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet
- November 14 - Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish philologist