1835 in literature
See also: 1834 in literature, other events of 1835, 1836 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- Alexis de Tocqueville publishes the first volume of Democracy in America.
- Memoir of James Jackson, written by Susan Paul, is the earliest-known published narrative by an African-American woman and the first account documenting the life of free black child in the United States.
- Hans Christian Andersen publishes the first of his 168 "Fairy Tales" for children.
New Books
- Memoir of James Jackson - Susan Paul
- Lodore - Mary Shelley
- The Student - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
- The Devil in Manuscript - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Souvenirs (autobiography) - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
- Heaven's My Destination - Thornton Wilder
- The Linwoods - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
- Taras Bulba - Nikolai Gogol
- Mademoiselle de Maupin - Theophile Gautier
- Belford Regis - Mary Russell Mitford
- Horseshoe Robinson - John P.Kennedy
- A Tour on the Prairies - Washington Irving
Births
- November 30 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (+ 1910)
- December 4 - Samuel Butler, writer (+ 1902)
Deaths
- January 14 - Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist