1828 in literature
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The year 1828 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- The first volume of John James Audubon's 10-volume The Birds of America is published.
- Noah Webster publishes his 70,000 word American Dictionary of the English Language.
- Nikolai Gogol leaves school and goes to Saint Petersburg.
- Elizabeth Caroline Grey publishes The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress in the penny dreadful The Casket, the first vampire story published by a woman author.
[edit] New books
- Anna Eliza Bray - The White Hoods: an Historical Romance
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton - Pelham
- George Croly - Salathiel
- Selina Davenport - Italian Vengeance and English Forbearance
- Elizabeth Caroline Grey - De Lisle
- Gerald Griffin - The Collegians
- Jane Harvey - The Ambassador's Secretary
- Ann Hatton - Uncle Peregrine's Heiress
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - Fanshawe
- Robert Huish - The Red Barn
- Washington Irving - The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
- Jane C. Loudon - The Mummy!
- The Lustful Turk (anonymous)
- John Neal - Rachel Dyer
- Susanna Rowson - Lucy Temple
- Sir Walter Scott - The Fair Maid of Perth
- Rosalia St. Clair - Ulrica of Saxony
[edit] New drama
- Franz Grillparzer - Ein Treuer Diener
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg - Elverhøi
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- August Böckh (ed.) - Corpus Inscriptionum Graecum (begins publication)
- George Combe - The Constitution of Man
- Barbara Hofland - Africa Described, in Its Ancient and Present State
- Washington Irving - The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
[edit] Births
- February 8 - Jules Verne, novelist and science fiction pioneer (d. 1905)
- February 12 - George Meredith, novelist and poet (d. 1909)
- February 14 - Edmond About, novelist and journalist (d. 1885)
- March 20 - Henrik Johan Ibsen, dramatist (d. 1906)
- April 4 - Margaret Oliphant (d. 1897)
- May 12 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (d. 1882)
- September 9 - Leo Tolstoy, novelist (d. 1910)
- September 17 - Louise Flodin, journalist (d. 1923)
- October 8 - Francisque Sarcey, journalist and critic (d. 1899)
[edit] Deaths
- January 16 - Johann Samuel Ersch, bibliographer
- January 26 - Lady Caroline Lamb, novelist and lover of Lord Byron
- March 16 - Johann Georg August Galletti, historian
- April 25 - François Benoît Hoffmann, dramatist and critic
- June 8 - William Coxe, historian
- June 11 - Dugald Stewart, philosopher
- June 21 - Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist & poet
- October 13 - Vincenzo Monti, poet
- date unknown - Henry Beekman Livingston, poet
