1828 in literature
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The year 1828 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- The first volume of John James AudubonJohn James AudubonJohn James Audubon was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats...
's 10-volume The Birds of America is published. - Noah WebsterNoah WebsterNoah Webster was an American educator, lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author...
publishes his 70,000 word American Dictionary of the English LanguageWebster's DictionaryWebster's Dictionary refers to the line of dictionaries first developed by Noah Webster in the early 19th century, and also to numerous unrelated dictionaries that added Webster's name just to share his prestige. The term is a genericized trademark in the U.S.A...
. - Nikolai GogolNikolai GogolNikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
leaves school and goes to Saint PetersburgSaint PetersburgSaint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
. - Elizabeth Caroline GreyElizabeth Caroline GreyElizabeth Caroline Grey , aka Mrs. Colonel Grey or Mrs. Grey, was a prolific English author of over 30 romance novels, silver fork novels, Gothic novels, sensation fiction and penny dreadfuls, active between the 1820s and 1867...
publishes The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire MistressThe Skeleton Count, or The Vampire MistressThe Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress by Elizabeth Caroline Grey is alleged by anthologist Peter Haining to be the first vampire story written and published by a woman...
in the penny dreadfulPenny DreadfulA penny dreadful was a type of British fiction publication in the 19th century that usually featured lurid serial stories appearing in parts over a number of weeks, each part costing an penny...
The CasketThe CasketThe Casket is a weekly paper published in Antigonish, Nova Scotia by the Casket Printing and Publishing Company. It was first published on June 24, 1852 by John Boyd.-References:...
, the first vampire story published by a woman author.
New books
- Anna Eliza BrayAnna Eliza BrayAnna Eliza Bray was a British novelist.Anna Eliza Kempe was born in the parish of Newington, Surrey, on 25 Dec. 1790, to John Kempe, bullion porter in the Mint, and Ann, daughter of James Arrow of Westminster. Kempe planned to be an actress, and her public appearance at the Bath Theatre was duly...
- The White Hoods: an Historical RomanceThe White Hoods: an Historical RomanceThe White Hoods: an Historical Romance is a historical novel by Anna Eliza Bray first published in 1828 in London.-External links:*... - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonEdward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonEdward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC , was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling dime-novels which earned him a considerable fortune...
- Pelham - George CrolyGeorge CrolyGeorge Croly was a poet, novelist, historian, and divine. He was born at Dublin, his father was a physician. Graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with an MA in 1804 and LLD in 1831. Croly married Margaret Helen Begbie in 1819.-Service:After becoming ordained in 1804, he first labored in Ireland...
- Salathiel - Selina DavenportSelina DavenportSelina Davenport was an English author of the Romantic period. She wrote 11 novels and was married to Richard Alfred Davenport.-Early life:...
- Italian Vengeance and English Forbearance - Elizabeth Caroline GreyElizabeth Caroline GreyElizabeth Caroline Grey , aka Mrs. Colonel Grey or Mrs. Grey, was a prolific English author of over 30 romance novels, silver fork novels, Gothic novels, sensation fiction and penny dreadfuls, active between the 1820s and 1867...
- De Lisle - Gerald GriffinGerald GriffinGerald Griffin was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright.-Biography:He was born in Limerick, Ireland, the son of a brewer. He went to London in 1823 and became a reporter for one of the daily papers, and later turned to writing fiction...
- The Collegians - Jane Harvey - The Ambassador's Secretary
- Ann HattonAnn HattonAnn Julia Hatton , was a popular novelist in Britain in the early 19th century.-Biography:...
- Uncle Peregrine's Heiress - Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials...
- FanshaweFanshawe (novel)Fanshawe is a novel written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was his first published work, which he published anonymously in 1828.-Background:... - Robert HuishRobert HuishRobert Huish was a prolific, but generally poorly regarded, English author of history books, novels, and miscellaneous other works.-Life:...
- The Red Barn - Washington IrvingWashington IrvingWashington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works...
- The Life and Voyages of Christopher ColumbusThe Life and Voyages of Christopher ColumbusA History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus is a four volume biographical account of Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving in 1828... - Jane C. LoudonJane C. LoudonJane C. Webb Loudon was an early pioneer of science fiction, long before the term was invented, so that she was discussed for a century as a writer of Gothic fiction or fantasy or horror, though she did none of these things as we now categorize fiction...
- The Mummy!The Mummy!The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is an 1827 novel written by Jane C. Loudon. It concerns an Egyptian mummy named Cheops who is brought back in to life in the 22nd century... - The Lustful TurkThe Lustful TurkThe Lustful Turk, or Lascivious Scenes from a Harem is a pre-Victorian British erotic epistolary novel first published anonymously in 1828 by John Benjamin Brookes and reprinted by William Dugdale. However, it was not widely known or circulated until the 1893 edition.The novel consists largely of a...
(anonymous) - John NealJohn Neal-External links:* * * -Selected Works Available online:* * * * * and * and * * *...
- Rachel Dyer - Susanna RowsonSusanna RowsonSusanna Rowson, née Haswell was a British-American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress and educator....
- Lucy TempleLucy TempleLucy Temple is a novel by Susanna Rowson. It was first published posthumously in 1828 under the title Charlotte's Daughter, or, The Three Orphans.... - Sir Walter Scott - The Fair Maid of PerthThe Fair Maid of PerthThe Fair Maid of Perth is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. Inspired by the strange story of the Battle of the North Inch, it is set in Perth and other parts of Scotland around 1400....
- Rosalia St. Clair - Ulrica of Saxony
New drama
- Franz GrillparzerFranz GrillparzerFranz Seraphicus Grillparzer was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral.-Biography:...
- Ein Treuer Diener - Johan Ludvig HeibergJohan Ludvig Heiberg (poet)Johan Ludvig Heiberg , Danish poet and critic, son of the political writer Peter Andreas Heiberg , and of the novelist, afterwards the Baroness Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, was born in Copenhagen....
- Elverhøi
Non-fiction
- George CombeGeorge CombeGeorge Combe , was a Scottish lawyer and writer on phrenology and education. In later years, he devoted himself to the promotion of phrenology. His major work was The Constitution of Man .-Early life:...
- The Constitution of ManThe Constitution of ManThe Constitution of Man is the classical exposition of phrenology, written by George Combe and published in 1828. It furthered the popularity of phrenology by finding a pathway to a personal philosophy which was in tune with the scientific understanding of the time. The Constitution bridged the... - Barbara HoflandBarbara HoflandBarbara Hofland was an English writer of some 66 didactic, moral stories for children, and of schoolbooks and poetry.-Life:...
- Africa Described, in Its Ancient and Present State - Washington IrvingWashington IrvingWashington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works...
- The Life and Voyages of Christopher ColumbusThe Life and Voyages of Christopher ColumbusA History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus is a four volume biographical account of Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving in 1828...
Births
- February 8 - Jules VerneJules VerneJules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
, novelist and science fiction pioneer (d. 1905) - February 12 - George MeredithGeorge MeredithGeorge Meredith, OM was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era.- Life :Meredith was born in Portsmouth, England, a son and grandson of naval outfitters. His mother died when he was five. At the age of 14 he was sent to a Moravian School in Neuwied, Germany, where he remained for two...
, 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 RossettiDante Gabriel RossettiDante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement,...
(d. 1882) - September 9 - Leo TolstoyLeo TolstoyLev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...
, novelist (d. 1910) - September 17 - Louise FlodinLouise FlodinLouise Charlotta Kristina Flodin, née Söderqvist, , was a Swedish journalist, typographer, feminist and publisher. She was seen as the first woman in Sweden to be given a newspaper licence....
, journalist (d. 1923) - October 8 - Francisque SarceyFrancisque SarceyFrancisque Sarcey was a French journalist and dramatic critic.He was born in Dourdan, Essonne. After some years as schoolmaster, a job for which his temperament was ill-fitted, he entered journalism in 1858...
, journalist and critic (d. 1899)
Deaths
- January 16 - Johann Samuel ErschJohann Samuel ErschJohann Samuel Ersch was a German bibliographer, generally regarded as the founder of German bibliography.-Biography:...
, bibliographer - January 26 - Lady Caroline LambLady Caroline LambThe Lady Caroline Lamb was a British aristocrat and novelist, best known for her affair with Lord Byron in 1812. Her husband was the 2nd Viscount Melbourne, the Prime Minister...
, novelist and lover of Lord Byron - March 16 - Johann Georg August GallettiJohann Georg August GallettiJohann Georg August Galletti was an German historian and geographer. Galletti's fame is not based on his merits as an academic, but on his reputation as the creator of a few hundreds of stylistic howlers, becoming a legend as Kathederblüten originated during his time as a grammar school professor...
, historian - April 25 - François Benoît HoffmannFrançois Benoît HoffmannFrançois-Benoît Hoffman was a French playwright and critic, best known today for his operatic librettos, including those set to music by Étienne Méhul and Luigi Cherubini .-Career:...
, dramatist and critic - June 8 - William CoxeWilliam CoxeWilliam Coxe , English historian, son of Dr. William Coxe, Physician to the Royal Household, was born in London. After his father's death his mother Martha married John Christopher Smith, who was Handel's amanuensis ....
, historian - June 11 - Dugald StewartDugald StewartDugald Stewart was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and mathematician. His father, Matthew Stewart , was professor of mathematics in the University of Edinburgh .-Life and works:...
, philosopher - June 21 - Leandro Fernández de MoratínLeandro Fernández de MoratínLeandro Fernández de Moratín was a Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet.-Biography:Moratín was born in Madrid the son of Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, a major literary reformer in Spain from 1762 until his death in 1780.Distrusting the teaching offered in Spain's universities at...
, Spanish dramatist & poet - October 13 - Vincenzo MontiVincenzo MontiVincenzo Monti was an Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar.-Biography:Monti was born in Alfonsine, Province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna the son of Fedele and Domenica Maria Mazzari, landowners...
, poet - date unknown - Henry Beekman Livingston, poet