Calendar of Literary Facts

1835

  • Realism flourishes as a literary movement in France
  • Theophile Gautier publishes Mademoiselle de Maupin, double amour
  • Alexis de Tocqueville publishes the first volume of Democracy in America
  • William Apess publishes Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe; or, the Pretended Riot Explained
  • Hans Christian Andersen publishes the first of his fairy tales
  • French philosopher Victor Cousin coins the phrase “l’Art pour l’Art” (“Art for Art’s sake”)
  • Texas declares its independence from Mexico
  • The first railroad is opened in Germany
  • William Cobbett dies (June 18)
  • Giosuè Carducci is born (July 27)
  • Samuel Langhorne Clemens (“Mark Twain”) is born (November 30)