411 REFERENCE · Wikipedia
1828 in literature
Reference material by Wikipedia contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
none
March 2013
1828 literature poetry
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1828.
Events
thumb|right|upright|alt=Stained white paper with words printed in three columns in blank ink below the magazine title and motto|The first issue of The Yankee with a subtitle: August 20, 1828
January – Thomas Dale becomes the first university professor of English language and English literature, at the new London University.Thomas Dale (1797–1870) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/articles/individuals/dale_thomas.htm UCL Bloomsbury Project UCL 2011-04-07 2015-02-14
January 1 – John Neal launches The Yankee literary journal. Sears Donald A. John Neal Twayne Publishers Boston, Massachusetts 1978 080-5-7723-08 146
January 6 – William Lamb, the future Viscount Melbourne, writes to his estranged wife, Lady Caroline Lamb, from Ireland, regretting that official duties make it impossible to visit her immediately. Later in the month, he makes the sea crossing. He arrives at her bedside shortly before her death.
February 21 – The Cherokee Phœnix, the earliest newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and in one of their indigenous languages, Cherokee, is first issued in New Echota.Cherokee Phoenix (New Echota [Ga.]) 1828-1829 https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83020866/ 2025-07-13 Library of Congress Washington, D.C.
April 1 – The Athenæum, "London Literary and Critical Journal", is launched by James Silk Buckingham.
December – Nikolai Gogol leaves school and goes to Saint Petersburg.Nick Worrall Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev https://books.google.com/books?id=TEEYAQAAIAAJ 1982 Macmillan 978-0-333-28964-8 5
unknown dates
Sherman Converse publishes Noah Webster's 70,000 word American Dictionary of the English Language.Noah Webster Foundation for American Christian Education Noah Webster's First Edition of an American Dictionary of the English Language https://books.google.com/books?id=JFw5AQAAMAAJ 1828 Foundation for American Christian Education
Elizabeth Caroline Grey's The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress is published; it is considered by some to be the first vampire story by a woman author.Mariah Larsson Ann Steiner Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twilight: Studies in Fiction, Media and a Contemporary Cultural Experience https://books.google.com/books?id=3fLACwAAQBAJ&pg=PT219 17 March 2016 Svenska Historiska Media Förlag 978-91-87121-17-3 219
John Payne Collier produces a script of Punch and Judy.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840 Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840 2007-09-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20070922055840/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840 22 September 2007 dead
The Reclam publishing company is established in Leipzig by Anton Philipp Reclam.
Færøernes Amts Bibliotek, the National Library of the Faroe Islands, is established.Bogens verden https://books.google.com/books?id=C4gaAAAAMAAJ 1943 Dansk biblioteksforening og Studiekredsforeningen 265
New books
Fiction
Anonymous – The Lustful Turk
Steen Steensen Blicher – Sildig Opvaagnen
Anna Eliza Bray – The White Hoods: an Historical Romance
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Disowned
Pelham
George Croly – Salathiel
Selina Davenport – Italian Vengeance and English Forbearance
Thomas Gaspey – The History of George Godfrey
Léon Gozlan – Les Mémoires d'un apothécaire
Elizabeth Caroline Grey – De Lisle
Gerald Griffin – The Collegians
Ann Hatton – Uncle Peregrine's Heiress
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Fanshawe
Robert Huish – The Red Barn
Bernhard Severin Ingemann – Erik Menveds Barndom (Erik Menved's Childhood)
Thomas Henry Lister – Herbert Lacy
Jane C. Loudon – The Mummy!
James Justinian Morier – The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan in England
John Neal – Rachel Dyer: a North American Story Sears Donald A. John Neal Twayne Publishers Boston, Massachusetts 1978 080-5-7723-08 11
Lord Normanby – Yes and No
T. J. Llewelyn Prichard – The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shon Catti, descriptive of life in Wales; interspersed with poems
Susanna Rowson – Lucy Temple
Rosalia St. Clair – Ulrica of Saxony
Sir Walter Scott – The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day; Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series)
Drama
Alfred de Vigny – Roméo et Juliette and Shylock (adaptations from Shakespeare, published)
Franz Grillparzer – Ein Treuer Diener
Johan Ludvig Heiberg – Elves' Hill (Elverhøi)
Henrik Hertz – Flyttedagen
Victor Hugo – Amy Robsart
James Sheridan Knowles – The Beggar's Daughter of Bethnal Green
Mary Russell Mitford – Rienzi
Richard Brinsley Peake – The Haunted Inn
Jovan Sterija Popović – Miloš Obilić
Lord Porchester – Don Pedro, King of Castile
Émile Souvestre – Siege de Missolonghi
Gotthilf August von Maltitz – Hans Kohlhaas
Poetry
Adam Mickiewicz – Konrad Wallenrod
Non-fiction
August Böckh (editor) – Corpus Inscriptionum Graecum (begins publication)
George Combe – The Constitution of Man
Barbara Hofland – Africa Described, in Its Ancient and Present State
Washington Irving – A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Charles Lamb – Essays of Elia (1st U.S. edition, the first collection to include the Last Essays)
Births
January 2 – Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, English writer (died 1865)John Debrett The baronetage of England. revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen https://books.google.com/books?id=mvIDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA595 1840 595
January 15 – Mary Jane Katzmann, Canadian writer, editor and historian (died 1890)
January 22 – Dora d'Istria, Romanian-Albanian writer (died 1888)
February 8 – Jules Verne, French novelist and science fiction writer (died 1905)
February 12 – George Meredith, English novelist and poet (died 1909)
February 14 – Edmond About, French novelist and journalist (died 1885)
February 16 – Julia Colman, American writer, educator, activist and editor (died 1909)
March 20 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist (died 1906)
April 1 – Lucinda Banister Chandler, American author and reformer (died 1911)
April 1 – George Barbu Știrbei, Romanian journalist, biographer and patron of the arts (died 1925)
April 4 – Margaret Oliphant, Scottish novelist and historical writer (died 1897)Margaret Oliphant Oliphant Scottish writer https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Oliphant-Oliphant Encyclopedia Britannica 21 August 2018 en
May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and artist (died 1882)Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) https://artuk.org/discover/artists/rossetti-dante-gabriel-18281882 artuk.org 21 August 2018 en
August 9 – B. Beaumont, British author and businesswoman (died 1892)
August 24 – Gheorghe Chițu, Romanian classical scholar, publisher and journalist (died 1897)
September 9 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (died 1910)Leo Tolstoy: Google Doodle marks War and Peace author's birthday with https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/leo-tolstoy-google-doodle-celebrates-war-and-peace-authors-birthday-9718662.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/leo-tolstoy-google-doodle-celebrates-war-and-peace-authors-birthday-9718662.html 2022-05-01 subscription live The Independent 21 August 2018
September 17 – Louise Flodin, Swedish journalist (died 1923)
October 8 – Francisque Sarcey, French journalist and critic (died 1899)
October 10 – Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff, American author and reformer (died 1901)
October 17 (bapt.) – Charlotte Chanter, née Kingsley, English botanical writer and novelist (died 1882)John Sutherland The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction https://books.google.com/books?id=QzJ3yNVVqtUC&pg=PA114 1990 Stanford University Press 978-0-8047-1842-4 114
November 14 – Susannah V. Aldrich, American author and hymnwriter (died 1905)
Deaths
January 5 – Kobayashi Issa (小林 一茶), Japanese haiku poet (born 1763)
January 16 – Johann Samuel Ersch, German bibliographer (born 1766)
January 26 – Lady Caroline Lamb, English novelist (born 1785)Leigh Wetherall Dickson Paul Douglass The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb Vol 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=JureDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT20 21 April 2020 Taylor & Francis 978-1-00-074938-0 20
February 7 – Henry Neele, English poet and scholar (born 1798)
February 29 – Henry Beekman Livingston, American poet (born 1748)
March 16 – Johann Georg August Galletti, German historian (born 1750)
March 28 – Frances Burney, English dramatist (born 1776)
April 7 – Helena Charlotta Åkerhielm, Swedish dramatist and translator (born 1786)
April 25 – François-Benoît Hoffman, French dramatist and critic (born 1760)
May 28 – Anne Seymour Damer, English sculptor and novelist (born 1748)Anne Seymour Damer 1748-1828 Tate https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/anne-seymour-damer-2553 Tate 21 August 2018
June 8 – William Coxe, English historian and travel writer (born 1747)
June 11 – Dugald Stewart, Scottish Enlightenment philosopher (born 1753)
June 21 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1760)
August 10 – William Cardell, American grammarian and story writer for boys (born 1780)John Austin Stevens Benjamin Franklin DeCosta Henry Phelps Johnston The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries https://books.google.com/books?id=EyIDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA123 1878 A. S. Barnes 123
October 13 – Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet and dramatist (born 1754)
November 8 – Thomas Bewick, English writer and natural historian (born 1753)
References
External links
Published 1828 Books at Goodreads
1828 Books at Goodreads
Publisher William Blackwood & Sons: Books Published in 1828