This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1829.

• January 26 – The first performance of Douglas Jerrold's comic nautical melodrama Black-Eyed Susan; or, All in the Downs is held at the Surrey Theatre in Lambeth, London. It will run for a new record of well over 150 performances.^[1]
• January 29 – The first complete performance of Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy (1808), adapted by August Klingemann, in Braunschweig.^[2]
• September – The narrative of George Eliot's novel Middlemarch (1871–1872) opens.
• October 29 – The English actress Fanny Kemble makes her stage debut as Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, at her father's Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.
• December — John Neal publishes the final issue of The Yankee literary journal.^[3]
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  • Louis Braille invents a new alphabet and embossed printing that allows the blind to read.^[4]
  • The Raczyński Library in Poznań is opened to the public.^[5]

• Edward Bulwer-Lytton – Devereux
• Honoré de Balzac – Les Chouans
• Steen Steensen Blicher – The Rector of Veilbye (Præsten i Vejlbye)
• William Nugent Glascock – Sailors and Saints, or Matrimonial Manœuvres
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or The Renunciants (Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, oder Die Entsagenden)
• Catherine Gore – Romances of Real Life
• Gerald Griffin – The Collegians
• Victor Hugo – The Last Day of a Condemned Man (Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné)
• Washington Irving – Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
• George Payne Rainsford James – Richelieu
• Julia Pardoe – Lord Morcar of Hereward
• Thomas Love Peacock (anonymously) – The Misfortunes of Elphin
• Walter Scott (anonymously) – Anne of Geierstein
• Martin Archer Shee – Oldcourt
• Horace Smith – The New Forest

• Frederick Marryat – The Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust (performed)
• Victor Hugo – Marion Delorme
• Douglas William Jerrold – Black-Eyed Susan
• John Augustus Stone – Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags

• Edgar Allan Poe – Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems
• Alfred Tennyson – Timbuctoo
• Henrik Wergeland
  • Digte, første Ring (Poems, first circle)
  • Skabelsen, Mennesket og Messias (Creation, Man and the Messiah)

• Hans Christian Andersen – A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager (Fodrejse fra Holmens Canal til Østpynten af Amager i Aarene 1828 og 1829)
• Thomas Carlyle – Signs of the Times
• William Cobbett
  • The English Gardener
  • Advice to Young Men
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge – On the Constitution of Church and State
• Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 1 (1st edition)
• Washington Irving – A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
• Cornelio Saavedra – Memoria autógrafa
• Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon – Life of Belisarius
• David Walker – Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America

• January 1 – Tommaso Salvini, Italian memoirist and actor (died 1915)
• January 12 – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, née Mullins, Canadian novelist and poet (died 1879)
• February 24 – Friedrich Spielhagen, German novelist (died 1911)
• March 4 – Samuel Rawson Gardiner, English historian (died 1902)
• April 24 – Luisa Cappiani, Austrian soprano, educator and essayist (died 1919)
• April 26 – Eva Brag, Swedish poet, novelist and journalist (died 1913)
• May 1 – José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (died 1877)
• June 4 – Jane Lippitt Patterson, American writer and editor (died 1919)
• July 19 – Helen Vickroy Austin, American essayist, journalist, and horticulturist (died 1921)
• October 31 – Emma Tatham, English poet (died 1855)
• September 12 – Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist and novelist (died 1900)
• September 18 – Edna Dean Proctor, American poet and author (died 1923)
• September 25 – William Michael Rossetti, English critic (died 1919)
• November 21 – Martha Perry Lowe, American writer and activist (died 1902)
• December 8 – Henry Timrod, American poet (died 1867)

• January 6 – Josef Dobrovský, Czech historian (born 1753)
• January 11 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet and critic (born 1772)
• January 15 – John Mastin, English memoirist, local historian and cleric (born 1747)
• January 29 – István Pauli (Pável) Hungarian Slovene priest and writer (born 1760)
• February 11 – Aleksander Griboyedov, Russian dramatist (killed by mob, born 1795)^[6]
• July 7 – Jacob Friedrich von Abel, German philosopher (born 1751)
• July 23 – Wojciech Bogusławski, Polish playwright and director (born 1757)
• September 29 – Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont, political writer (born 1759)
• October 10 – Maria Elizabetha Jacson, English writer on botany and gardening (born 1755)^[7]

• Newdigate prize – Robert Stephen Hawker